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Posts from March 2009

Death by Taquito

I reached a kind of dire epiphany on Friday. I was at work, looking at my lunch — two taquitos, twin amalgams of fat and grease and starch rolled up in individual corn tortillas, sitting in a pool of their own fluids — when I realized that I’m slowly killing myself.

This wasn’t a new revelation, [...]


Posted
22 March 2009 @ 8am

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Media

More Than The Sum Of Its Parts

Digital music distribution is the best thing to happen to music since wax records, but it has had one unfortunate consequence: the slow sundering of the notion of an album. Or the redefinition of that notion, at any rate. As far as iTunes, or any mp3 player, is concerned, an album is nothing more than [...]


Posted
20 March 2009 @ 9am

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Words

Peter

I’m incredibly happy to report that Peter Atwood, one of my classmates at Clarion, and a terrific writer, has been nominated for best short story in the Prix Aurora Awards, for his story All In.

Congrats Peter!


Posted
16 March 2009 @ 8pm

Tagged
Travel

The Alaska Diaries

So, faced with a giant design document that needs to get written, a backlog of stories that need to get polished up and sent out, and a mountain of chores that need to get done, I’ve just spent the last hour … consolidating all my Alaska posts into a single document.

Sigh. Anyway. I’m calling it [...]


Posted
4 March 2009 @ 4pm

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Words

Creature: Online!

Weird Tales has posted Creature, my story from their March 2008 issue, online.


Big Kindle Is Watching You

Here’s why I will never buy a Kindle:

The other notable software feature added in Kindle 2 is one that mostly represents potential. At the new unit’s introduction, Bezos said that the device could sync both content and a user’s location within that content across multiple devices. At the moment, that means different versions [...]