It’s time for Klingons in the News!Hot on the heels of the revelation that some mope was using a Klingon bat’leth to rob convenience stores in Colorado, we now find this moving short film about Klingon Night School. Note that the film is brought to us by Chili’s. Perhaps a visit to Chili Headquarters with […]

Clarion, the science fiction field’s pre-eminent workshop, is open for submissions from prospective students.The six-week workshop will take place at University of California at San Diego, and will run June 28 through August 8. This year’s writers in residence will be Holly Black, Larissa Lai, Robert Crais, Kim Stanley Robinson, Elizabeth Hand, and Paul Park. […]

We saw Coraline the other day, and for some reason I was not enchanted. (My reaction to the book was enchantment from Page One, or thereabouts.) I spent the entire film admiring the movie’s technical achievements, but I was never caught up in the action, and the odd thing is that I can’t figure out […]

When I was in the hospital for my few brief hours of day surgery, I got a head cold.So I’m recovering not only from surgery (which is going just fine, thank you for asking), but I’m recovering from a cold at the very same time. Kathy pointed out that I might as well save time […]