Scott Lynch's Blog, page 13

7-26-09

Five Completely Random Gubernatorial Candidates the People of Alaska Would Have Been Way, Way Better Off Electing in 2006:

Godspeed, Alaska.

Brief Update

This past weekend, my youngest brother Brian got married, tying the knot with his college sweetheart, and thus taking the last of the unsecured Lynch boys off the market.

Also, this past Friday, as the family was embarking on its mass road trip to the wedding, my paternal grandfather Martin died at home at the age of 81, following a long battle with cancer.

I will, unfortunately, not be attending Convergence 2009, where I had been scheduled to sit on a panel on Friday, July 3rd.

January 20, 2009

Hey, folks.

Just a quick note to say that I am indeed alive and well, and unfortunately going to be away for a while longer for personal reasons.

But it's a big day.

I'm having trouble getting to sleep. One of the worst presidents in American history, one of the most mediocre, self-absorbed frauds ever put over on us as a "man of destiny," is calmly exiting stage right this morning. Strolling off to the pampered irrelevance that awaits him as a spent cartridge in the culture wars. The Myth That Wa

Note to the Galley:

Romulan ale no longer to be served at diplomatic functions.

In Saratoga Springs

Got into Albany last night on a fascinatingly wobbly flight (regional jet + high winds = wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee) and drove north to Saratoga Springs. Milling around this afternoon, buying a few essentials and waiting to go to dinner with one of my lovely editors... drunken fistfights over the literary legacy of H.P. Lovecraft are strictly prohibited before 8 PM on WFC opening days, but I'll be sure to let y'all know who takes one to the jaw over At The Mountains of Madness.

Update Fu

I have been a bit muted about it, because I haven't been sure how to react in public, but it's no secret that The Lies of Locke Lamora is a nominee for a World Fantasy Award this year. I'm buzzed as all hell about this-- having read all the novels that have previously won the award, I think it's a marvelous and eclectic body of work and I'm tickled just to have an also-ran in its shadow. I'm also pleased that two of the novels I voted for made the final five, and I'm really looking forward to lo

Another One Too Soon

Jim Rigney, better known to literally millions as Robert Jordan, passed away this weekend. I read this at Nielsenhayden.com last night and found myself in an unexpected funk.

I was not a fan of the Wheel of Time books, probably because I came to them in my twenties with my tastes already fairly developed. I was never able to get past the opening of the second book, and those of you who've known me for ages I'm sure absorbed my criticism and invective years ago. I once wrote at excruciating length

Your Powers Are Weak, Old Man!

I am Stumbly McSlow this fine afternoon... Excedrin and caffeine have restored some of my powers of movement, but I won't be riverdancing any time soon.

Late Saturday night we had a call for a house fire in a neighboring township, and quite contrary to routine it was an actual, honest, fully-involved structural blaze. We worked on it for a good three hours, came home, cleaned up, and dispersed... only to get paged out again at the crack of dawn for a suspected "rekindle" at the same location. Wh

Assholes Last Night, Fire Calls Today.

So, last night Jen and I attended her uncle's wedding in Stillwater. Any worries we had about the event were pretty much unfounded. It was held aboard a river boat, the service took about ten minutes, and then it was straight to dinner and drinks with no reception line or pause for the symbolic release of flocks of doves or anything like that.

The boat pulled our around six and got back just after nine. It was a great time and we were eager to head off to Bloomington to hang around at Convergence

*Headdesk*

Gah. I belong to an e-mail list that reports on every known line-of-duty death or serious injury for firefighters in the United States (and tries to cover the rest of the world as best it can). Via CNN:

"'Tornado of flames' kills 9 firefighters"

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/06/19/charleston.fire.ap/index.html