"Qui plume a, guerre a." — Voltaire
@writer: My interview with @crustyoldeditor is now live: http://lin.ky @hipsociologist: @crustyoldeditor claims Twitter is replacing quality conversation with a bunch of shouting! What bullshit! See this study: http://lin.ky ! @hipsociologist: using that one study, I’m now going to bury @crustyoldeditor’s qualitative argument under a barrage of quantitative data! @hipsociologist: And I’m going to broadcast it […]
Can’t believe I came across a reference to Chris Anderson’s “long tail” this morning. Wow, I didn’t think anyone still remembered, considering: What’s next, an article about the Cognitive Surplus? Ooh! Ooh! I know! The Singularity! (*eye roll*)
Balticon 45 was a great experience. Gary and I had a lot of fun and met many new people whom we can count among our fannish friends and who have already had a measurable impact on Channel 37’s direction as well as its popularity in the community. But there was one sour note, and I’m […]
Last night I stumbled on the photos of the space shuttle Endeavour docked to the ISS that are floating around the interwebz. They stirred a strange jumble of feelings for me, and I ended up writing an essay about my reaction over on Channel 37 in an effort to sort it out. Take a look […]
Now at last can we bring them home?
This is a palimpsest of an essay for Channel 37. I need to work the kinks out here before posting it in the forthcoming “37 Minutes” category, where C37 authors can write things that aren’t serial chapters or news items. Hope it works… So first, a bit of a preamble. Because I only recently came […]
This morning over a leisurely coffee I was reading a piece about Boris Pasternak and Dr. Zhivago (“He, the Living,” by Michael Weiss, in the New Criterion) when I read this: Uncharacteristically for a poet of the twentieth century, Pasternak saw the depravity of Communism where it manifested itself earliest — in the Russian language. […]
Just because the question floated through my head: Cassette tapes: First I ever bought: Pink Floyd, Animals (1977) Last I ever bought: Steve Roach and Robert Rich, Soma (1992) LPs: First two I ever bought: Shadowfax, The Dreams of Children and Jean Luc Ponty, Individual Choice (1983) Last two I ever bought: Steve Roach, Dreamtime […]
I’m always curious to read, in my blog stats, the search terms that dredge up Sotto Voce. Usually they’re fairly topically relevant, but this morning I found this one [minus a couple of typos]: “nomadic crew of a spacecraft have their relative tranquility disturbed when they take on board a doctor” If you Google this […]
I had the great good fortune to be an SF-lovin’ teenager during one of the Golden Eras of SF cinema, the early 1980s — The Empire Strikes Back, Blade Runner, Star Trek II, Tron, Aliens . . . movies that redefined, and in many ways continue to define, the boundaries of cinematic SF. One of […]