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Getcher Hun Books Here – Free Range Oyster

Getcher Hun Books Here – Free Range Oyster

Books, getcher books here! Hello, beloved fellow figments of Sarah’s imagination! While our beloved Beautiful but Evil Space Princess and her entourage of Mad Addled Scientists are gallivanting about at conventions and bestowing the dubious terrifying illustrious grace of her presence on the attendees there, you can do some gallivanting of your own through the pleasures of a good book. And would you look at that? We have new books this week! So go re...

Quick Post

There will be a BPF later, but I stayed up last night putting up the collection, Here Be Dragons, I have to do the Friday Book Plug intro for PJM and I have to pack because the Hoyts en masse are going to be at Denver Comicon this weekend.

If you’re there, come by the Wordfire press and say howdy. We’ll be giving away free signed copies of the hardcover of Gentleman Takes A Chance, if you spend a certain amount (I think it’s $50) on books at the table (not just mine!) There MIGHT be copies of...

You Might Be A Fan If… – Foxfier

You May Be A Fan If… -Foxfier

There’s been a bit of a to-do about who is a “real” fan, and someone pointed out an amusing contrast with the “real geek girl” to-do of a year or three ago– roughly, the sides are reversed. This got me to thinking (quake in fear!), and late last night I realized– this one is backwards. Fan isn’t something you disqualify from, it’s something you qualify for. The things that were put forward as necessary to be a fan were just sufficient, not mandatory. It’s qualifi...

Unthinkable

“Hopkins: In all my years, I never seen, heard, nor smelled an issue that was so dangerous it couldn’t be talked about. Hell Yes!! I’m for debating anything!! Rhode Island says Yea!” – 1776, the Musical

My life is a well written novel, with careful attention paid to the threading in of sub-plots and themes. Or perhaps my being human (shuddup. I checked.) I notice things in clumps that make sort of sense together. (Since whatever else the human brain does, every human brain is really good at d...

Go Read This

It’s already been a morning, and I’m running late. There will be a post, but meanwhile, go read this.

http://ashbrook.org/publications/onprin-special-schramm/

This is why I came up with the Usaian religion in my books. And this is why we cannot let the light go out. We cannot. Else, the world will be plunged in darkness.

What the forces of evil (eh) don’t get is that the light is not a government, or a place. It’s the beliefs in each of our hearts. And as long as one of us lives, here or abro...

What We Are Made of

When I sit around thinking of silver linings in History and indulging the all-too-human tendency to think that “everything happens for a reason” and “this is the best of all possible worlds” (and honestly, I do know it’s a mirage, like seeing a face in a random pattern on a cliff face) I tell myself the best thing about WWI is that it led to WWII which in turn put paid forever to the idea of eugenics as an open thing that you can just use to support your theory.

Not that eugenics is a wrong i...

Sliding Back To Slavery – Kate Paulk

Sliding Back To Slavery – Kate Paulk

Before I get to the meat of this, I should probably mention that if there’s anyone in the entire universe who won’t get pissed off about what I’ve got to say they probably don’t have the capacity to understand it. It has to do with things we in the USA and most of the rest of the Western world have been taught are forbidden.

And no, it’s not racist. It just steps on a lot of the fences that have been built around the concept of racial bigotry so people can...

The Privilege Of Not Caring

So, recently I’ve been getting really tired of the word “privilege” mostly because it’s being twisted to mean things it never meant.

I’d even be more or less okay with the idea that “white privilege” is not having to define yourself according to a race/ethnicity stereotypes. It’s a stupid idea, but it’s at least understandable how people got there.

They got there through a total lack of empathy, is how they got there. They assume that the pressures put on them to fit the pictures in people’s...

Promo Post and Musings

The promo is by Free Range Oyster, the resident ambulatory mollusc. The musings are mine. And since this is my blog and I muse if I want to: musings first.

My main musing is on the subject of work. Yesterday on Facebook someone told me I do two daily blogs and all the rest. This is, of course, not true. I barely do this blog daily, if I can con one or two of you into doing guest posts a week. (Actually I’ve found the ideal number of weekly posts is three. After that it starts eating into the...

The Great Talent Hunt — A Blast From The Past Post 4/2011

*Yes, I’m rolling on a theme. Indulge me. – SAH*

So I won’t be misunderstood let me make clear at the outset that yes, I believe individuals are born with different capacities for different things. Let alone the capacities one sees in oneself which might or might not be observed objectively, it’s impossible to watch a kid growing up and notto know some things come more easily to people than others.

Take words, for instance. I rarely, if ever, struggle for words. Oh, on some days when I’m ill...