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April 14, 2018
Episode 38 – Wherefore Internet?
From Kate Beaton – Hark, a Vagrant!
We remember the internet being a lot more fun a decade ago. Why did our attitude change, and what major milestones did internet culture experience between now and the time we first logged on?
https://ia601500.us.archive.org/28/items/OLSP38Whereforinternet/OLSP38_Whereforinternet.mp3Download the Podcast (archive.org page)
April 9, 2018
Memory, Mortality, and Wolf
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I read Spring Log II almost immediately after finishing Wolf and Parchment. Volume 19 of Spice and Wolf continues the gentler peak into the day-to-day life of a married couple that we saw in Spring Log I: another collection of short stories and novellas that run in more-or-less chronological order after a short flashback to an earlier time. Isuna Hasekura has come into his own with short fiction with these last two volumes, choosing character-focused pieces that explore close relationships a...
April 1, 2018
Snippets for April
Another smattering of thoughts for the month, as I just couldn’t come up with topics that quite warranted an article of their own. Up today: Pornokitsch, the Hugos, and Wolf and Parchment.
End of an era[image error]Pornokitsch shut down at the end of March and will not be posting new content. It’s a bit unusual to talk about a favourite website these days, but Pornokitsch was mine. They posted articles regularly on science fiction, fantasy, pop culture ephemera, cheesy music, historical oddities, old pul...
March 25, 2018
Conquest of the Marsh
A man, his dog, and the wilderness.
March 10, 2018
Battle Maiden
I had a lot of fun splashing in the background characters for this one. Made with MyPaint.
February 21, 2018
My Own Kind of Firefly
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Steven Brust wrote a Firefly novel?
I heard about My Own Kind of Freedom at the tail end of an announcement of an official line of Firefly tie-in novels. I admit that the tie-in news didn’t interest at all, but what did get my attention was learning that over a decade ago, Steven Brust wrote a Firefly novel on spec and submitted it for publication, was ultimately turned down, and released the finished work under Creative Commons Licence as a free ebook. Like Scott Lynch’s Queen of the Iron S...
February 11, 2018
Updates for February
I’m fresh dry on ideas for blog posts (as you might notice from my increasingly erratic posting schedule), so some scattered thoughts for February, the cruelest month, instead:
The most rote feature of any writer’s blog is posts on writer’s block. I’ve had a really long spell of sitting in front of my computer and words not coming out, and none of the strategies I’ve tried to far have really worked. That being said, there are a few anthology calls that would be a real shame to miss since the...January 30, 2018
Episode 37 – Celebrating Le Guin
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A reflection on the life and works of Ursula K. Le Guin in light of her recent passing.
https://ia601508.us.archive.org/26/items/OLSP37CelebratingLeGuin/OLSP37_CelebratingLeGuin.mp3Download the Podcast (archive.org page)
January 15, 2018
Comrade Commissar Lúthien
Mae g’ovannen, tovarisch.
