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Hubble Panorama of the Whale Galaxy

From the Astronomy Photo of the Day commentary:

NGC 4631 is a big beautiful spiral galaxy seen edge-on at only about 30 million light-years away. This galaxy's slightly distorted wedge shape led to its popular moniker of the Whale galaxy. The Whale's dark interstellar dust clouds and young bright blue star clusters highlight this panoramic color image. The band of NGC 4631 not only appears similar to band of our own Milky Way Galaxy, but its size is truly similar to our Milky Way as well...

Sidewalk Poem

Here is one of my poems, which is set in concrete in the St. Paul sidewalk system. Patrick decided to go out yesterday and photograph the poem in two places. There is a third place, which we haven't visited yet.





A man loads his home --
two carts stuffed full of stuff --
on the bus.

Two of us move back.
One helps with the carts.

A man has a right to room and help
when his whole home
is on the bus.

In the Interest of Bragging...

Here is one of my poems, which is set in concrete in the St. Paul sidewalk system. Patrick decided to go out yesterday and photograph the poem in two places. There is a third place, which we haven't visited yet.





A man loads his home --
two carts stuffed full of stuff --
on the bus.

Two of us move back.
One helps with the carts.

A man has a right to room and help
when his whole home
is on the bus.

2010 Nebula Awards

Congratulations to the winners of the 2010 Nebula Awards, presented this evening at a banquet in Cape Canaveral, Florida.


Novel
The Windup Girl, by Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade Books, September 2009)

Novella
The Women of Nell Gwynne's, by Kage Baker (Subterranean Press, June 2009)

Novelette
"Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast,"
by Eugie Foster (Interzone, February 2009)

Short Story
"Spar," by Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld, October 2009)

Ray Bradbury Award
District 9, b...

Friday Cat Blogging

Ahhhhh!



Me? I wasn't doin' nothin'.



Here I come to save the day!



That's right, I'z laughin' at you, Bucko.

Frank Frazetta, RIP

Frank Frazetta, 1928–2010. A legend has passed.

Goodbye Party

Date: Saturday, May 8, 2010
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: Uncle Hugo's/Uncle Edgar's Bookstore
Street: 2864 Chicago Avenue
City/Town: Minneapolis, MN

Say good-bye to Garnet Lacey by celebrating the last book in this popular series -- HONEYMOON OF THE DEAD.

On Saturday, May 8, 2010, in my persona as Tate Hallaway, I will be signing HONEYMOON OF THE DEAD, the last in the Garnet Lacey series, at Uncle Hugo's in Minneapolis starting at 1:00 pm. The Uncles are located at 2864 Chicago Avenue, Minn...

Friday Cat Blogging

I votez nay.



No matter how hard I paddle dis boat never goes anywhere.



It's good to be the cat!



Who put sunbeam way out there?

A Bunch of Stuff Including Smart Things and Fanfic

Lets start with Brenda Novak's charity auction fundraiser for diabetes research. Among the many many things that are being auctioned off are fiction critiques of varying lengths by 98 authors including yours truly, 60 agents, and 50 editors. Plus there are all kinds of other goodies from signed books to fine crystal. This is a great fundraiser and its a cause that I believe in both in the abstract and the concrete. My grandmother, who did the bulk of the work of raising me was killed by a hea...

Released into the Wild!

Today is the official release day of the last book in the Garnet Lacey series, HONEYMOON OF THE DEAD.

I have some mixed feelings about this book because I'd just finished the final draft of the novel when I found out that it would be the last. I had always hoped that Garnet would be my "never ending" series, and had originally written in some plot points that I intended to pull out as the grist for the events of the next book. Thus, the book is not the nice, tidy ending I might have written ...