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Con or Bust

Over at con_or_bust , I am offering a signed hardback of The Virtu. Minimum bid is $15. (N.b., The Virtu is the one that is out of print in both hardback and paperback.)

Life with my brain, spring fever edition

I have fallen into a abyssal pit of the dontwannas. I'm also bored and restless, and if you think this is a double-plus ungood combination, you are correct. In the part of my brain that is observing both the dontwannas and the bored-and-restless, I am also annoyed, because you'd think the two would cancel each other out. If I don't want to do anything, how can I be bored? And vice versa.

Piece of cake, says my brain. Let's go do something!
--What?
--Oh, I dunno. Something. Something fun!
--Like?
-...

Auction updates plus other good karma opportunities

1. The helptheproject auction is still ongoing, and lo, there are many cool things in it.

2. The fluffybunnyfund auctions & other fundraising efforts were successful! hominysnark has had the surgery she needs and is recovering. She's still $30,000 or so in the hole, so again I point you to F-Bod Studios, because the world always needs more weird t-shirts in it.

But the important thing is that hominysnark is alive and healthy instead of dead or permanently disabled, and that is due in part to th...

Elisian influence

elisem has a post collecting the dragon story cycle that matociquala and I seem to be writing about/with Elise's dragon-titled jewelry. yuki_onna has also posted today about a piece of Elise's jewelry, in this case octopedal rather than draconic. And I'm posting a list of all the stories I have written and am writing for Elise's jewelry:

PUBLISHED
"Three Letters from the Queen of Elfland"
"Sidhe Tigers"
"Wait for Me" ("Why Do You Linger?")
"National Geographic On Assignment: Mermaids of the Old...

Greetings from Moria

So when Tolkien says the dwarves delved too greedily and too deep, how deep d'you suppose that actually was? In feet?

(Yes, this is for a story.)

speaking of awards

This is a collation of several science fiction/fantasy/horror awards* given to novels: Hugos, Nebulas, BSFA, World Fantasy, Dick, Clarke, Stoker, Tiptree, and Brandon. (I don't know what the heck all this displacement activity is in service of, but there you go.) They are in reverse chronological order, so you don't have to scroll through all the Hugos of the '50s to get to last year's results.

If you notice an error, please let me know!

2009
HUGO: Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
NEBULA: TBA
BSFA:...

Nebula nominees

Congratulations to the Nebula Awards nominees! And extra bouncing and hugs to yuki_onna (reaction shot here) and cmpriest (reaction shot here), for whom I could not be more delighted if I tried.

"This dictionary, however, is a most useful work."

And if you're wondering where the "an eel in the fundamental mud" tag comes from, I point you, gleefully, to [The Devil's Dictionary Dot Com:], which has Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary, not merely online, but hypertexted in an elegant and intelligent way. (Check POLITICIAN. *g*)

I am so geeked by this, it's a little embarrassing.

more from Franz Neumann

First, although Neumann is, as I said, Marxist like whoa and not always particularly nuanced in his analysis, I want to single out this passage as the point where I said, Yes. I like this man. Because it's such a relief, after one has been wading through Nazi ideology, to get a passage that combines common sense with common decency--and in fact insists that both should be common:

Hardly any other ideological element is held in such profound contempt in our civilization as international law...

Happy birthday, heresluck!

Happy birthday, heresluck !