Author: Alex Irvine
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Every City Its Own Genre!
The most excellent supernatural/noir novelist Charlie Huston tells the Austin American-Statesman that LA is a more SFnal city than NYC, which is one reason why his most recent book, Sleepless, is SF. He moved to LA, it seems, and the SFness of the place overcame him. This got me thinking. Which is America’s most science-fictional…
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A Toothache-Fueled Rant
Dear Internet: I do not care about your cat. Your baby is cute. Your impulse to tweet about it constantly is not, and smacks of desperation. And just so you know, everyone hates the following things: waiting in line, stupid people (especially at work), work, not having any work, dating, not having anyone to date,…
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Blogging at Barrelhouse
The sadly misguided souls over at Barrelhouse, that most excellent magazine of literature and pop culture, have enlisted me to blog for them on a regular basis from now until whenever they figure out what an awful mistake they’ve made. This may result in decreased frequency of posting over here, but who knows? Maybe my…
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The Wall Street Journal Understands Me
According to that august, um, journal (paraphrase courtesy of Deadspin): Out of the typical 2 hours and 54 minutes of the average NFL broadcast, a whole 11 minutes actually feature live game action. So next time you want to call out soccer or baseball fans for following a sport where nothing happens, you might want…
Crooked House Fictions 