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Our friend Nathan is over, and we took the opportunity to introduce him to the 1980 movie “Roadie.”  I’ve been in love with that movie ever since Michael Butler first made me watch it, but now that I live in Texas it’s even better.  As it started, I ran to the fridge and grabbed a [...]

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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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My dear friends Tea Kerr and Thoricatha are part of an upcoming gallery show: “Sacred & Profane” which runs from October 31st through mid-December at Celtic Dragon Gallery, 1503A Chartres, Houston, Texas. Both Tea and Thoricatha are involved in the Continuous Coast project.
Tea’s charcoal art (which she draws under the name Cat Khemia) will be [...]

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Man, I am so ready for the next season!  I was watching a rerun this afternoon, and there’s is this scene in the bullpen.   Wile Lau and Haf are bantering in the foreground, in the background Rhyes drops a folder in front of Brady, and Brady looks at the folder, looks at Rhyes, then just [...]

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I notice while over England that their neat regular rows of farm fields look suspiciously similar to the long, narrow rows of flats in their towns. I wonder how many other places modeled their cities after their farm structure, whether intentionally or not?
While airport food is usually sub-standard, it seems the English reputation for [...]

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We’re looking for some bands to help us engage in some viral marketing .  Are you in a band?  Do you have a friend who is in one?  Post a link to your music here, or else send it to Kit at dreamcafe dot com, and we’ll give it a listen.  Ideally this should involve [...]

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I’ve been watching the reruns, and among the things I didn’t notice the first time around is the episode where Worth shows up with a cast on her arm, and there’s no explanation for it, and nothing ever happens with it and no one comments on it.  Is it a clever bit of backstory, or [...]

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Not quite. But we understand that there is a photo of the Dream Café residents, along with the glorious Kij Johnson, in the June 8 issue of Locus (which should already be on the stands). The photo is from the Nebula Awards, which we crashed like the vicious party crashers we are.

Clockwise from Left: [...]

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I figured I’d use my soapbox here to try to dispose of some digital property I no longer want.
I adore Mage: the Ascension, the old World of Darkness roleplaying game from White Wolf. A number of years ago I registered dreamspeakers.net, which I used for the gaming stuff I was posting online. I don’t plan [...]

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I am hanging out at Poking You tonight and one of the artists brought up some recent UFO sightings here in Texas. I did a Google search and found this news article. While it is full of colorful details (I particularly like the guy who watched the object through his gun sights and is sure [...]

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