So, day 3 was supposed to be simple. I had one job to do. That job, by the way, was to drink beer, an activity that I perform on occasion with no obligation whatsoever. Well, that and work sgt-at-arms for the Business Meeting, which was fun but uneventful (wait for Day 5). No, Friday was shaping up to…
Category: Geek Culture
WorldCon Report, Day 1: The drumbeat begins
Alright, day one of Worldcon was a slow start. Jessica Rising was awesome enough to show Esther and I a sneaky way to get in the registration line before the doors to the convention center opened, thus insuring that we did not actually have to wait in said line for more than a couple of…
I Just Had My Ass Handed to Me By A Children’s Movie.
I’ve always been kind of a Pixar fan. They do good films over there, and basically everyone knows it. Up, when it came out, hit me like a truck. I still can’t watch it again. It’s a movie about loss, and it’s simply one of the most depressing things I’ve ever watched. That’s not the…
The post that treadeth into no-man’s land.
Alright, it’s been a year, and I’m ready to break down the #Gamergate debacle. I shall attempt to do so, and then I shall await the flensing that comes when any blogger touches this, the internet’s third rail. Let me begin by saying this: I am a gamer. I like video games. I like board…
Marvel finally irks me, but it’s not in my geek.
I have a rule. I don’t watch TV shows about lawyers. I just don’t do it. Not that they aren’t perfectly good shows, most of the time. But…I am a lawyer. And the closest I have seen anyone come to showing what it’s really like to do my job is either Benched or Night Court, depending on the episode….
“On the Hugo Nominations,” or “Giving Zero Poops”
Guess what? There’s a lot of drama surrounding the Hugo nominations. At first glance, this seems like a big deal. After all, I’m a genre writer. This is kind of the award for us, it’s our Oscars, right? It’s all the recognition from peers that matters to us, to validate our writing. Not only that,…
Win a Kindle by Being A Terrible Writer: The Grant-Frog Style Guide
So, many times at cons, we authors are asked to read things and evaluate them. Most of the time the work needs polishing, but is pretty good. Occasionally, though, we get handed something that makes The Eye of Argon look like frickin’ Tolkein. But here’s what’s interesting: when we authors talk about it, the unintentional…
Argh!
Ok, ok. I have tried to be calm. I have tried to deal with the fact that a great many of my people are reacting in a completely irresponsible manner to the problems confronting us. #Gamergate and the bullshit that surrounds it, the 4channers, the trolls; these people are nowhere near in the right. But…
A Larger Perspective: In response to the response to Scott Aaronsen
Before you read this post, read this. Let’s put the comment into context, first. Few of the other commenter’s on Dr. Aaronsen’s comment take it in the context of the full conversation, so let me attempt to outline this one. There was an MIT professor, a Prof. Lewin, who committed sexual harassment. Well, was alleged,…
A winnar is me.
Esther is just behind me in this, but I figured I’d post my thingy to be all thingy now. So, I won Nano. And I feel cheesy even saying that. “Win” is a word that usually refers to a competition. It implies that I somehow accomplished something. But as I said in an earlier post,…