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Tie-In Fiction, Orphaned Books, Sick Prisoners, Etc.
Over at Jeff VanderMeer’s Ecstatic Days, there was an interesting conversation about genre and tie-in fiction. As someone who has written quite a bit of both, I found the points raised both familiar and interesting all over again. Here’s one, about the number of prominent writers of original stuff who have also worked in tie-ins:…
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Thus I Thwart the Gods of Irony
I walk to the computer store intending to buy new headphones. I pause outside the door of the computer store, certain that if I buy new headphones I will immediately find my old headphones. I walk away from the computer store, putting my hand in my coat pocket. In my coat pocket I discover my…
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Big Fire from Small Meteor
Apparently the meteor that caused this bolide was only the size of a tricycle. Kind of amazing that five cameras just happened to be pointing at that part of the sky…
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My Public School Gay Sex Indoctrination
One of the primary reasons given for their opposition to marriage equality by the 53% of the Maine electorate who voted yes on Question 1 yesterday was the boogeyman of gay marriage being taught in school as part of a larger effort on the part of those conniving ‘mos to indoctrinate our innocent offspring. This…
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Txtmsgsp33k and 50s Poetry
See, what I’m wondering is how come people are reinventing the language for the channels of SMS and Twitter when all you need to do is look at the correspondence between, say, Olson and Creeley to note that a perfect shorthand was already there? I will always prefer ‘yr’ to ‘ur.’ Just saying.
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