Your Monday moment of zen.
My brother, photographed in 1980 by (probably) my dad, in Kano, Nigeria. © 1980, 2009 by Joseph E. Lake
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Posted: 5:24 am Mon October 19 2009 | Comments(0) |
A review of Green [ Powell's | Amazon
Weirdest cell phones ever! — Another Dark Roasted Blend classic. Some nifty design ideas here.
Nereus Crater on Mars — APOD with a nifty image from Opportunity (which continues to exceed its 90-day design life).
England’s libel laws don’t just gag me, they blindfold you — The one thing that truly makes the UK England a menace to society worldwide: their ludicrous libel laws, which are completely focused on maintaining the positions of those privileged by money.
Saddam & Laura & Propaganda — A Tiny Revolution with another dispatch from irony’s graveside.
Secret Service strained as leaders face more threats — The unprecedented number of death threats against President Obama, a rise in racist hate groups, and a new wave of antigovernment fervor threaten to overwhelm the US Secret Service I’m going to go out on a limb here and say these aren’t liberal-progressives causing the problem. Any more than liberal-progressives caused these kinds of problems for Bush 43. Confidential to conservative America – you are known by the company you keep (and encourage).
The O’Garbage Factor – Fox News isn’t just bad. It’s un-American. — Again with the speaking out. Is some rationality finally returning to American political discourse?
?otD: How many angels are obtuse? How many are acute? Show your work.
Posted: 5:21 am Mon October 19 2009 | Comments(0) |
An illustration done today by
© 2009 by B. Lake
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Posted: 5:01 pm Sun October 18 2009 | Comments(1) |
I’m proud to announce that audio rights to my short story “On the Human Plan” (Lone Star Stories issue 31) were acquired by Escape Pod today.
Posted: 4:35 pm Sun October 18 2009 | Comments(0) |
Wit and wisdom of
Concerning raindrops on the windshield: “How come they don’t all roll up the windshield by themselves? Why do they combine and make little rivers?”
Concerning the English language: “If we want people to learn English, why did we decide to make all these crazy words that sound alike but spell differently? Whose idea was that? Why don’t we change it?”
Concerning the sky: “Oh, look at those cirrus clouds. Like souls in the sky. Souls caught in spiderwebs.”
Posted: 4:31 pm Sun October 18 2009 | Comments(0) |
From Library Journal:
MADNESS OF FLOWERS: “Lake’s sequel to Trial of Flowers continues the tale of a decadent and exotic city where madness and politics go hand in hand. VERDICT Award winner Lake (Mainspring; Escapement) combines steampunk eccentricities with magical realism in the style of China Miéville’s Perdido [Street] Station and Michael Swanwick’s The Iron Dragon’s Daughter.“
Posted: 7:16 am Sun October 18 2009 | Comments(0) |
Taken by me in New Mexico. (See more about this shrine here, including a comment from the builder’s niece.) © 2006, 2009 by Joseph E. Lake, Jr.
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Posted: 6:47 am Sun October 18 2009 | Comments(0) |
Jeff VanderMeer’s WFC Schedule — This post is a thing of beauty and a joy forever.
Andrew Wheeler reviews The Book of Vice by Peter Sagal
Where The Wild Things Are: interview with storyboard artist Federico D’Alessandro — Via the always entertaining art blog, Drawn!.
As It Might Have Been: Hexagonal London — I am reminded of David Wingrove’s Chung Kuo books.
Ockham’s Broom — When a razor just isn’t enough.
The Past 5,000 Years Mark a New Epoch in Human Evolution (The Weekend Feature) — Fascinating.
Worlds alien and familiar… from an alien world — A wonderful shot of Earth and Jupiter, as seen from Mars.
?otD: Is there room up on the hill?
Posted: 6:39 am Sun October 18 2009 | Comments(0) |
Your Saturday moment of zen.
Photographed by me in Taiwan, 1975. © 1975, 2009 by Joseph E. Lake, Jr.
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Posted: 6:25 am Sat October 17 2009 | Comments(0) |
Excellent discussion of my short story, “Over the Walls of Eden”, on the DrabbleCast discussion forum — (Thanks to
Pat Rothfuss is raising money for Project Heifer — Go play along. He’s raffling off naming rights to a character in his next novel. (Via Ben Simons.)
8 days and 3,700 miles — An artist’s journey from New Hampshire to Oregon.
Andrew Wheeler has the quote of the week — Marginally not safe for work, and funny as hell. Ah, England.
Gunboat Diplomacy: 1905 — Shorpy with some history.
Ass bombing — Prophylactic terrorism. (Thanks, I think, to
Democracy Corps: Republican Base Voters Living In Another World — Fascinating piece on a liberal-progressive study of the Republican base and the cherished convictions which seem so lunatic to anyone who isn’t a strong conservative. Conservatives see themselves as an oppressed minority, holding on to knowledge that isn’t represented in the wider media and culture. (Obviously, read with the appropriate grain of salt given the source, but this sure hits all my confirmation biases.)
?otD: How long ago would you have been married, if it hadn’t been for Cotton-Eyed Joe?
Posted: 6:21 am Sat October 17 2009 | Comments(2) |