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You can start your link hunt here if you haven’t seen this yet.

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Reesa and Nathan have been watching re-runs of the old Addams Family TV show.  I approve of this, in part because it’s refreshing to see a 60’s sitcom where one can believe the couple actually had sex.  But it produced a question which has been bothering me, lo, these many days, even to interfering with [...]

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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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To all writers, and especially TV writers, just thought you should know that the riff where someone says, “I have something important to tell you,” and then gets interrupted before being able to tell it, is now played out.  In fact, it was played out the first time it was used.  If your goal is [...]

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I just sent the following to JonathonFrid.com, and thought I may as well share it here as well:
Back in 1993, I published my 12th novel, AGYAR, my only vampire novel.  I was one of those kids who raced home from school to catch Dark Shadows at 3:30.  Until recently, when I’ve been watching DS again, [...]

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So, I sent Miss Manners a letter, and she printed and answered it.  A): I think this is really cool.  2): I think she has a valid argument.  III): It doesn’t address the whole of the problem.  d): What do you think?

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All right, this is getting to be too much.  I ignored it when a friend warned me not to “defend rapists” on her LJ for linking to an article  (See sidebar for the link.)  Now another friend has signed a petition calling for this 76-year old man to “receive justice.”  The cynicism is appalling.
There many [...]

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A friend of mine did a rather weird interview with me.  If you’re interested, it can be found here.

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So, I just joined my fan club on Facebook.  Is that, um, weird?

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It started with reading the sidebar of Making Light–a habit I encourage.  On “PNH’s Sidelights”, I came across this.  It’s brief, take a moment to read it.
Now, here is my problem.  A certain Walter Williams says “Thirty, 40 or 50 years ago, no one in their right mind would have believed the Merv Grazinski urban [...]

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