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Yes, friends, today I will be on streaming video, live from the Spinathon, starting at 1pm Central Daylight Time.  What will I be doing?  Probably standing around looking like an idiot.  But I’ve said I’ll do it, so I will, if I’m not in jail. (Edit: our main website went down, of course while our [...]

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Yes, it’s a Spinathon!  What, you ask, is a Spinathon?  I have no idea, but we’re having one. Okay, okay.  In order to raise some money for medical expenses (Reesa, if you recall, just had a radical mastectomy, which is major surgery, which they charge money for),  volunteers are going to be spinning yarn (or [...]

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Those of us who know Emma, or have read her work, or heard her sing, think this is a very, very fine day, because we are all ecstatic to know there is a her in the world. I can think of many national holidays that could be replaced by a celebration of the existence of [...]

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When Cory Doctorow and Neil Gaiman both say to sign it, I’m inclined to sign it, so I did.

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A dear friend of mine was hurt recently.  If you want the full story, it is (linked with permission) here. The short version is as follows: They were playing a game in which someone puts the name of a character (real or fictional, living or dead) on your forehead, and you ask yes or no [...]

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My childhood friend Steve Rosen, who plays viola for the Cincinnati Orchestra, has just released this.  Check it out.

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Thanks to help from many people, we have moved about 95% of the Dream Cafe to its new home in Austin.  We have to wait a few days yet for the electricity and other utilities to be turned on, but I’m pretty sure the move will be complete by the middle of next week.  Thanks [...]

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I hope you’ve read Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino.  If not, go read it.  If you have, imagine stopping at one of those cities and finding the weirdest, darkest little area in it.  Then imagine a description of that area by Gaiman and Wolfe.  That the city in this case happens to be Chicago is [...]

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Inspired by this post by TxAnne (and, of course, by this). The dad of a charming young beta Found painful ways to send data. Chaz was bleedin’ and smokin’ But has he been broken? We’ll have to get back to you latah.

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Pam gave a talk to some Unitarians, and reproduced in her LJ.  It’s, like, Cool Stuff.  Find it here.

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