Jay Lake: Writer

[links] Link salad is back where it belongs

The auction for Mark’s bench starts today — Go check it out and support a terrific goal.

Interview: Jay Lake — Adam Israel of the Inkpunks interviews me about submission practices.

“Keep Working” — Writer wisdom for the ages. (Via Myke Cole.)

Fact and fiction — Tom Tomorrow on how stories are framed.

How ‘Hunger Games’ Built Up Must-See Fever — Interesting piece on the subtleties of movie marketing.

Mercury Surprises: Tiny Planet Has Strange Innards and Active Past — Much like myself.

Revision to temperature measurements doesn’t change global warming — Because self-correction is what science does. Ideology doesn’t have self-correction mechanisms, and ideology based on willful ignorance can’t even encompass the possibility of self-correction mechanisms. I know which I trust.

Not just the weather: climate change acceptance nosedives with the economy — Effects like this baffle me.

Komen race donation drop in S. Ariz. is called ‘crisis’ — It’s a damned shame that the quite appropriate tarnishing of the Komen brand for playing typical conservative anti-woman games has such a direct effect on the women and the cause Komen was purporting to serve. I won’t ever be donating to a Komen event again, but I will continue to support women’s issues in general and breast cancer research in particular. (Via shsilver.)

Paula Smith, the purveyor of the offensive “Don’t re-nig” bumper sticker, insisted to Forbes’s Roger Friedman that it’s not racist — Both a racist idiot and a liar, apparently. Are you proud of your Republican party? (Snurched from kradical.)

Forced castrations reportedly found in Roman Catholic care — This would the same Catholic Church that Santorum takes his moral compass from.

In U.S., a growing unease at mixing politics with prayer — Honestly, this shocks me. I thought conservatives had won this culture war so thoroughly that most people no longer even recognized it as a destructive issue.

Romney’s big day marred by Etch A Sketch remark

‘I’m completely shocked’: Tea Party Marine who ‘said he wouldn’t follow orders from Obama’ faces charges — Right. Shocked. Idiot or poser?

?otd: Home or away?

3/22/2012
Writing time yesterday: 4.75 hours (1.5 hours on a short story of 2,900 words, 3.25 hours on Little Dog)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bicycle ride
Hours slept: 6.25 (solid)
Weight: 240.2
Currently reading: Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch

Tags: Cancer, climate, friends, healthcare, interviews, Links, Movies, Personal, Politics, Process, Publishing, race, Religion, Science, Writing

Posted: 4:42 am Thu March 22 2012 | Comments(0) |

[links] Link salad is still hanging out in River City, with a capital L that rhymes with, uh…

The Inside Story of How John Carter Was Doomed by Its First Trailer

How to protect your home from Leprechauns

Quantum optics may remove the uncertainty about quantum gravity — I’m certainly glad that’s been cleared up.

To Kill Predators, Japanese Honeybees Surround Them in a ‘Hot Defensive Bee Ball’ — I’ve been on dates like that. (Via David Goldman.)

Icy Saturn moon ‘may be active’

Bering Sea Teeming with Ice — Persistent, strong northerly winds have stretched the ice cover to its second widest extent. The other half of climate change is wide variation in both directions.

How Engineering the Human Body Could Combat Climate Change — From drugs to help you avoid eating meat to genetically engineered cat-like eyes to reduce the need for lighting, a wild interview about changes humans could make to themselves to battle climate change. (Via ericjamesstone, with whom I exchanged some snark about this yesterday.)

More Pandering Won’t Make Things Any Easier for Romney — But that’s what Mittens does best!

Romney and the Right-Wing Shakedown — Santorum for AG? Newt at the UN? John Bolton for State? The far right has presented mealy-mouthed Mitt with a stunningly long list of demands. Santorum as attorney general? He would be even worse than that lunatic Ashcroft.

?otd: Hula Hut or original Chuy’s?

3/20/2012
Writing time yesterday: 2.0 hours (1.0 hour on WRPA, 1.0 hour on Little Dog)
Body movement: 45 minute urban walk (predawn thunderstorm)
Hours slept: 5.75 (fitful)
Weight: n/a
Currently reading: The Ethical Slut by Dossie Easton and Janet Hardy

Tags: climate, Funny, Links, Movies, Personal, Politics, Science

Posted: 3:22 am Tue March 20 2012 | Comments(0) |

[links] Link salad just is

How to Deal with Writers Effectively in One Easy Lesson — (Snurched from kradical here.)

Botanists finally ditch Latin and paper, enter 21st century — That was seriously retrograde. (Snurched from Fragano Ledgister.)

ChronoZoom takes you through 14 billion years of space-time via HTML5

Fundamental Law of High Speed Flying Manoeuvrability Discovered — That opens up the possibility of autonomous micro-air vehicles swooping and diving through cluttered environments like sparrowhawks through a forest. And doing it in the not too distant future. What could possibly go wrong?

Giant squid eyes are sperm whale defence

Sexually deprived Drosophila become bar flies — [S]exually frustrated flies choose to consume more alcohol than their happily mated peers[.]

Do Statins Make It Tough to Exercise? — Why and how exercise interacts with statins to cause muscle problems remains unknown, in part because it’s more difficult to study molecular responses in people than in animals. (People generally dislike muscle biopsies.)

The Forgotten History of Gay Marriage — In ancient church liturgical documents, he found the existence of an “Office of Same Sex Union” (10th and 11th century Greek) and the “Order for Uniting Two Men” (11th and 12th century Slavonic). That old time religion is good enough for me. (Via danjite.)

Feds to Halt Texas Women’s Health Program Funding — I am sorry it has come to this in my former home state. Thanks, conservative America, for holding women everywhere hostage to your personal religious beliefs.

Hey, kids! Anybody here not heard the F-word? — Roger Ebert on the movie Bully and MPAA ratings in general.

Mitt Romney meets ‘peasants with pitchforks’

Signs of financial stress emerge for Mitt Romney as the long GOP campaign keeps getting longer

Obama compares Republicans to ‘Flat Earth Society’ for stance on green energy — “Why would someone who wants to lead the country ignore the facts?” Um, Mr. President, have you paid any attention to the GOP these past few decades? Evolution? Climate change? Supply side economics? Their entire worldview is based on willful ignorance and ignoring the facts.

The World According to Santorum — The insinuation that making our society more sustainable is favoring the environment over humans is absurd, especially because environmental activists are among those most concerned for our species’ future. Renewable energy, less reliance on fossil fuels—these are causes that should appeal to any thinking person, regardless of their religious beliefs. “Thinking” would be the key word here. The conservatism of the Republican base is reactionary and fear-driven, and proudly anti-intellectual and anti-science. Thinking really doesn’t come into the politics of those GOP voters at all. If it did, we’d live in a much better world right now, because we wouldn’t have experienced the economic, social and military disaster that was the Bush administration, and we would be responding far more sensibly to everything from economic pressures to climate change.

?otd: Tired yet?

3/16/2012
Writing time yesterday: 0.0 hours (Dad time)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 6.0 (solid)
Weight: 235.6
Currently reading: The Ethical Slut by Dossie Easton and Janet Hardy

Tags: Culture, energy, Funny, gay, gender, healthcare, Language, Links, Movies, nature, Personal, Politics, Process, Publishing, Science, sex, weird

Posted: 5:26 am Fri March 16 2012 | Comments(0) |

[links] Link salad has a pickup truck and the devil’s eyes

A beautiful, brainy illustration

All red meat is bad for you, new study says — A long-term study finds that eating any amount and any type increases the risk of premature death.

Before the Pacific: finding the lost islands of a Pangea-era ocean

Angry Birds in Space — And the physics thereof.

Long space missions ‘may damage eyesight’ — This makes me want to write a short story called “All the Blind Old Astronauts”.

US manned spaceflight infographic

Artifacts Show Sophistication of Ancient Nomads

When Cultural Identity Is Denied — The dangers of classification by outsiders. (Via Scrivener’s Error.)

The Reproduction of Privilege — Education and the class system.

It’s un-American to silence Limbaugh — Free speech means tolerating views that you despise. Otherwise, one day, it will be your views that someone doesn’t like. If you don’t stand up for Limbaugh’s liberty today, someone may come for yours tomorrow. Discredit him, but don’t silence him.

Did ‘Game Change’ change anyone’s mind about Sarah Palin?

Palin: The First Black President Wants to Revert to Pre-Civil War Society — In her view, the very act of acknowledging or talking about race’s role in U.S. history makes one a racist. This is bizarre, even in terms of what laughingly passes for conservative ‘thought’.

Poll: GOP Voters In Deep South Think Obama Is Muslim, Unsure On Interracial Marriage — Asked whether Obama is Christian or Muslim, some 45 percent of Alabama Republican respondents picked Muslim; 14 percent correctly identified him as Christian. Another 41 percent said they were unsure. In Mississippi, a majority of Republicans, 52 percent, identified Obama as Muslim; 12 percent said he was Christian and 36 percent were undecided. This is what happens when conservatives control the media. Their lies are perceived as truth.

The Many Misleading Claims In Mitt’s Monday Medicare Memo — A GOP candidate lying about Medicare? Unpossible! Thelma, bring me my nitro.

Doonesbury strip on Texas abortion law dropped by some US newspapers — [Governor Rick Perry's spokeswoman] Catherine Frazier, asked about the Doonesbury strip, said: “The decision to end a life is not funny. There is nothing comic about this tasteless interpretation of legislation we have passed in Texas to ensure that women have all the facts when making a life-ending decision.” No, you’ve passed legislation ensuring that women have to conform to your particular narrow religious beliefs about their sexual lives and reproductive choices.

Will Deep South primaries deep six a candidate? — Oh, come on. Mitt’s going to win this in the end. Slow, messy and damaging, but barring some truly bizarre developments, I don’t see how he cannot.

?otd: Does time mean nothing? Will it ever again?

3/13/2012
Writing time yesterday: 3.5 hours (1.5 hours on nonfiction first draft unrelated to Extremes; 2.0 hours of WRPA)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 6.75 (solid)
Weight: 236.8
Currently reading: Blood of Orange by Lizzy Shannon

Tags: Art, Cool, Culture, education, gender, healthcare, Links, media, Movies, Personal, Politics, race, Religion, Science, sex, Tech

Posted: 5:35 am Tue March 13 2012 | Comments(1) |

[process] Mature characters with backstory

Saturday evening I was texting with bravado111 (urban fantasy author J.A. Pitts) about how much we both liked Saladin Ahmed’s Throne of the Crescent Moon [ jlake.com | LiveJournal ]. John observed that the book read like the fourth volume of a series, and compared it to the original Star Wars movie, now known as A New Hope.

This got me on to thinking about mature protagonists, a topic which has already been on my mind somewhat of late. Mature characters come with their own backstories, their own histories. (For that matter, so do infants, but in dramatic narratives, people with fully formed life histories are usually more interesting.)

Among my books, Rocket Science, Mainspring, Escapement, Pinion, Green, Endurance and Kalimpura all center around young protagonists. Death of a Starship and the Flowers books deal with people in middle age. (The Before Michaela Cannon, core protagonist of Sunspin‘s ensemble cast, is 2,000 years old, so she’s a bit of an outlier.) With those younger protagonists, a major aspect of the story being told is their own journey to maturation and discovery of their life path. The older protagonists have a lot of backstory and implied action embedded in their preferences, desires, choices and reactions to the unfolding of the plot.

Certainly that latter effect is what Saladin achieved in Throne of the Crescent Moon. Hence bravado111‘s reaction. Those characters had been around a long time, had experienced many prior adventures, had lived.

What I’m now chewing on is whether I think it’s a bigger challenge to write a youthful protagonist or to write an older protagonist. How does this affect the reading experience? Green and its subsequent volumes would be very different books if she were middle aged at the time of the action. Some of the key underlying themes of Sunspin would be null and void if Cannon weren’t literally the oldest human being who had ever lived. And Ahmed’s Doctor Adoulla Makhslood wouldn’t be anything like he is if he were still living in the bloom of youth.

Food for thought, indeed. What’s your take, as either a reader or a writer, on the age of protagonists?

Tags: Books, Endurance, Escapement, Green, Kalimpura, Madness, Mainspring, Movies, Pinion, Process, Rocket Science, Starship, Sunspin, Trial, Writing

Posted: 5:48 am Mon March 12 2012 | Comments(6) |

[links] Link salad goes all Clara Peller

Apex magazine interviews me — They also will be reprinting my story “Lehr, Rex”. (Link to come when it is available.)

Strong Female Characters, My Own Definition — Mur Lafferty Is Wise.

H.P. Lovecraft for Beginning Readers

Five hundred new fairytales discovered in Germany — Collection of fairytales gathered by historian Franz Xaver von Schönwerth had been locked away in an archive in Regensburg for over 150 years. (Via @pauljessup.)

The Fiction to Reality Timeline

Scrivener’s Error on, among other things, agents practicing law — Also some good political commentary there today.

The Disciples of Memory — Aging and memory, and Alzheimer’s. (Via someone on Twitter, but I forget whom.)

Alien invasion a threat to Antarctic ecosystem

Quantum Biology and the Puzzle of Coherence

Why Do Cats Run the Internet? A Scientific Explanation — Because no one knows you’re a dog? (Via David Goldman.)

Surviving “the Tyranny of E-mail”

A Review of the Lytro Camera — Man, do I want one of these. (Via my Dad.)

Neil deGrasse Tyson: How Space Exploration Can Make America Great Again

The Diabetes Dilemma for Statin Users — I have both elevated cholesterol and am pre-diabetic, so this one hits close to home.

The Specter of Denialism — Conspiracy theories surrounding the global HIV/AIDS epidemic have cost thousands of lives. But science is fighting back. Anti-science denialism can cost lives. Vaccine denialism certainly does. Global warming denialism will almost surely be a significant contributor to serious future losses of life and property.

Abortion-Mental Illness Link Doesn’t Hold Up, Researchers Find — What do you know? Ideologically driven “research” doesn’t actually produce valid results. Millions of conservatives would be shocked, if they weren’t impervious to facts. (Courtesy of threeoutside.)

Sluts Unite — By standing up to Rush Limbaugh’s slur, Sandra Fluke shows how sex positivity is recharging feminism.

Women react to Rush’s apology: Not accepted?

Rush Limbaugh has so much more to apologize for — The man is the heart and soul of the modern GOP. He has nothing to apologize for that every conservative in America doesn’t share. Even those GOPers who are now pretending to be shocked by Rush’s remarks have been very happy to ride his vitriol to electoral success these past two decades.

Republicans, Be Bold! — For the Republican Party to be attractive again to the various groups that have historically found a home under the “Big Tent,” whether it be 2012, 2016 or even 2020, it needs to think big and put forward a new generation of bold ideas that fit neatly within the overarching themes of Republican values. It wouldn’t hurt to have a nominee willing and able to stand strong on their convictions either. Unfortunately for the GOP, when your convictions are based on peevish bigotry, denialism and big old helping of paranoid hate (c.f. Santorum), it doesn’t actually pay to advertise them too far outside your own base.

The greatest actress in American political history — Roger Ebert on Game Change, the HBO film about Palin in the 2008 presidential campaign. When Newsweek’s David Frum asked Schmidt what he thought about the film, he said it was “an out-of-body experience.” Neither he nor Wallace (who confessed that after working with Palin she was unable to vote for McCain) has questioned its accuracy. Inflicting Palin on American politics will be McCain’s enduring political legacy.

?otd: Where’s the beef?

3/6/2012
Writing time yesterday: 2.0 hours (30 minutes of WRPA, 1.5 hours on the Going to Extremes nonfiction proposal)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 7.25 (solid)
Weight: 237.0
Currently reading: 1491 by Charles C. Mann; Permeable Borders by Nina Kiriki Hoffman

Tags: Antarctica, climate, Cool, Culture, Funny, gender, healthcare, interviews, Links, media, Movies, Personal, Politics, Process, Publishing, Science, sex, stories, Tech, weird

Posted: 6:36 am Tue March 06 2012 | Comments(0) |

[links] Link salad puts some Spike Jones on the box

My dear friend and fellow writer Mark Bourne has passed away suddenly and unexpectedly — My deepest condolences to Elizabeth and all his family and friends.

A reader reacts to Westward Weird — They liked my story.

Street Dates and Sales Velocity — Andrew Wheeler on Seanan McGuire and some fairly deep (and interesting) publishing neepery.

Insane art formed by carving books with surgical tools — (Thanks to scarlettina.)

Culturomics And The Google Book Project — The digitisation of over 5 million books has created a huge dataset of cultural interest. Now researchers are beginning to tease it apart using powerful number-crunching techniques.

Aardman’s upcoming pirate movie — Aardman Animation, the makers of Wallace and Gromit, is putting the finishing touches on The Pirates! Band of Misfits, which may be the most technically ambitious stop-frame animated film yet.

The Book of Human Languages — Ta-Nehisi Coates on bilingualism.

The 5 Craziest War Stories (All Happened on the Same Ship) — (Via danjite.)

Hell off Earth: Blustery Exoplanet Charted in 2-D for First Time — Astronomers have made a crude two-dimensional thermal map of an extrasolar world they cannot yet see, confirming that violent winds rapidly whip around the planet.

An Astronaut’s Cravings: Horseradish and Tabasco Sauce — Interesting stuff here that might be useful for SF writers. I like the bit about the biscotti.

High-precision weigh-in for W boson means fewer hiding places for Higgs

Single molecule’s electric charges seen in first image

Unlimited human eggs ‘potential’ for fertility treatment

Climate Reality, a poignant and important PSA about climate [change] denial in schools.

Frank Rich on Media Bias — The “liberal media” meme has been one the GOP’s most successful Big Lies in their decades-long attack on American culture and society.

The Difference between Romney and Obama (Picture) — This one pretty much says it all. Hey, I wonder if any FOX News viewers saw this? You know Your Liberal media is.

Ghastly Outdated Party — Welcome to Republican America.

Rick Santorum’s Despicable And Hurtful Health Care Lie — I know. A Republican lying. It’s like rain falling in Oregon or something. Who could possibly anticipate such a thing? (Via David Goldman.)

?otd: Can you stand to hear him sing? Do you love the way he talks?

2/27/2012
Writing time yesterday: 4.75 hours (Sunspin revisions)
Body movement: 60 minute suburban walk
Hours slept: 6.25 (fitful)
Weight: 235.4
Currently reading: 1491 by Charles C. Mann

Tags: Art, climate, Cool, Culture, Food, healthcare, Language, Links, media, Movies, Personal, Politics, Publishing, reviews, Science, stories, Tech, Videos

Posted: 6:32 am Mon February 27 2012 | Comments(0) |

[process] Sequel-itis, or the part 2 blues…

Yesterday afternoon, the_child‘s basketball team lost their first round playoff game. It was heart-breakingly close, a very good game, but in the end, the other team pulled it out to beat them by three points. After dinner with friends, we stayed up late (and tired!) and watched Kung Fu Panda 2 [ imdb ], which we’d rented over the weekend and is due back Real Soon Now. Meanwhile, I’m thinking ahead to the second book of Sunspin, Their Currents Turn Awry.

All of these things are essential part two of something else. The playoffs were a coda to her season. Kung Fu Panda 2 follows on the success of the first movie. Currents, well, we shall see.

It’s hard to do something twice. I learned this writing both of the Mainspring and Green trilogies. The demands of the sequel/part 2 are very different. The challenge for the creator is how to maintain and build on whatever magic the original had, while still doing something new and interesting. So I worry a bit about Their Currents Turn Awry and the final two books in Sunspin. Once a reader has encountered Calamity of So Long a Life, their expectations are set. They have a view of the world that I have to both satisfy and expand upon.

Luckily for me, while very, very few movie sequels live up to their original (off the top of my head, the Toy Story [ imdb ] cycle is the only movie series that truly pulled this off), there are plenty of sfnal and fantasy examples of successful series and trilogies. Writing is not the playoffs, and we’re not worried about box office take. Not exactly, at any rate.

Still, there’s nothing like a story the first time out of the wrapper, when you’re experiencing it like never before. How to keep that magic going…?

Tags: Books, Calamity, Child, Currents, friends, Green, Mainspring, Movies, Process, Sunspin, Writing

Posted: 6:49 am Tue February 21 2012 | Comments(1) |

[links] Link salad for a tired Sunday

Publishing and Permission — M.K. Hobson on the writing mind.

Shelf-Conscious — Writers and their books. (Via danjite.)

Sing, sang, sung — What the linguist notices here is that the system of around 200 irregular verbs in English is so complex and hard to memorize that native-speaking professional journalists and editors are unable to pick the right preterite form for extremely common verbs.

Confused ‘The Artist’ Patrons Demand Refunds, Didn’t Know Film Was Silent — Um…

Striking multiple-exposure photo of air traffic by artist Ryu HoYeol

The Tea Party’s war on mass transit — House Republicans try to gut federal funds for subways as they extend the culture wars to urban policy issues. As tipster threeoutside says, “[T[he middle-class and upper-lower-class people who are pushing this shit. Do they have an image in their minds of what they want their world to be like?”

For Women Under 30, Most Births Occur Outside Marriage — And therefore the conservative response is to limit access to contraception. Hey, GOP, this is reality calling. Hello? Anyone home?

Santorum’s Gospel of Inequality

?otd: Worn out?

2/19/2012
Writing time yesterday: 3.5 hours (Sunspin revisions)
Body movement: n/a
Hours slept: 8.25 (solid)
Weight: 237.8
Currently reading: 1491 by Charles C. Mann

Tags: Books, Funny, gender, Language, Links, Movies, Personal, Photos, Politics, Process, sex, Travel, Writing

Posted: 7:25 am Sun February 19 2012 | Comments(0) |

[links] Link salad awakens with slow reluctance

In case you missed it over the weekend, my new cancer tattoo: [ jlake.com | LiveJournal ] — Yes, on the back of my skull.

Christopher Walken reads Where The Wild Things Are

Antarctica – Fantastical World without Borders — An Antarctica travelog, relevant to one of my future projects. (Via bravado111.)

Avería: The Average Font — Interpolative typography. Huh. Fascinating. (Thanks to kshandra.)

Washington Park: 1907 — Detroit’s “moon towers”, as depicted here, later were sold to the City of Austin, where most of them still survive.

One’s A Crowd — The trend toward living alone?

garyomaha on working lunches, or not

Neurocinematic comparison of monkeys and humans — Spaghetti western reveals differences between human and monkey brain. Mmm, neurocinematic. I loved this bit: Like most other films, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is a complex multisensory stimulus, filled with rich, operatic imagery and, of course, Ennio Morricone’s unforgettable score. It is, however, fairly safe to assume that humans and monkeys will interpret the film quite differently. (Via danjite.)

Path Is Found for the Spread of Alzheimer’s — The headline is slightly misleading, as the story refers to Alzheimer’s progression within an individual rather than to transmission between individuals. Interesting stuff.

The Komen Controversy: Planned Parenthood Claims a New Kind of Victory in the Culture War — I am baffled by the conservative charge that Planned Parenthood “bullied” Komen. What is the Right’s treatment of Planned Parenthood but bullying, if you want to frame it in those terms? More to the point, for decades the entire forced pregnancy movement is about bullying desperate, vulnerable young women and their medical providers. What else is a clinic blockade or a doctor target list but sheer, awful bullying in the name of what? The god of love? Decency? Conservative bigotry and “morals”? Can you imagine the reaction if liberal-progressives blockaded churches and targeted pastors? Project much, guys? The Right can dish it out, but they can’t take it.

A Puritan’s ‘war against religion’ — Roger Williams, the Puritan who founded Rhode Island, insisted on the state refraining from intervening in the relationship between humans and God. Freedom of religion absolutely means freedom from religion. That is the best protection any church has against persecution. Despite the modern GOP interpretation, freedom of religion doesn’t mean the freedom to exercise oppressive bigotry, narrow-minded judgmenentalism, or tear down educational and cultural standards in favor of silly mythmaking.

ericjamesstone points out that I am wrong in characterizing Romney as saying he won’t have a Muslim in his cabinet — This in connection to my comment that I thought making an issue of Romney’ religion was a red herring, until he made an issue of Islam as a religion. Speaking as an atheist, there is nothing more or less at issue with Romney’s LDS membership than there is with Newt’s Catholicism or Clinton’s Southern Baptist faith. To me, the religion of the candidates would only be an issue if there were a straightforward atheist running on a major party ticket. Which won’t likely happen in my lifetime…

Senate GOP: Activist Federal Judges Wanted — The hypocrisy of a group of Republicans who are supporting the lawsuit against Obama’s recess appointments. Republicans being hypocritical? That’s as inconceivable as the idea of Newt Gingrich cheating on his wife.

The true conservative alternative: Ron Paul? — It’s sad that conservatism has become a race to the bottom to display the most ignorance, bigotry and sheer foolishness.

?otd: Dream much??

2/6/2012
Writing time yesterday: 5.5 hours (Sunspin revisions)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 7.5 (solid)
Weight: 229.4
Currently reading: The Man in the Moone, and Other Lunar Fantasies ed. Faith Pizor

Tags: Antarctica, Art, Books, Cancer, Culture, gender, healthcare, Links, Movies, Personal, Politics, Publishing, Religion, scorner, Tech, Texas, Videos, work

Posted: 6:29 am Mon February 06 2012 | Comments(0) |