Magazine Review Up: Interzone #225

Another review up. Interzone is a curious magazine, for sure, and you can check out my review of the latest issue here. You can also see my review of #224 from a few months back here. Have any of you read anything interesting lately?

One More For the Crazy: How To Ruin Your Career

This will be brief, folks, because you should be reading this post and following the links to the incident rather than wasting time seeing what I have to say. I’m not even the first one to get to this, obviously. The short of it is this:Candace Sams, author of some book whose title sounds idiotic […]

A Few More Lies For the Ignorant (Part One)

So, having already spoken on the Harlequin mess, wasn’t I surprised to find this article over at Self-Publishing Review with a whole lot of nonsense for the price of zero (the post is a guest post, so I don’t know how well it reflects what the owners of the site wish to portray, since I […]

Why Avatar Will Suck, and Everyone Will See It Anyway

It’s coming, and everyone has been waiting for it. The big secret is out. We have a good idea what Avatar is all about, we’ve got a glimpse of the amazing CGI, and a little taste of all the actors of this soon-to-be blockbuster. Everyone will probably see Avatar, and though it probably won’t beat […]

CSN Bookcases: An Upcoming Review

The fine folks over at CSN Bookcases have offered me a free bookcase/bookshelf for review and because that’s quite generous (bookcases aren’t exactly cheap), I wanted to let you all know a bit about the place. CSN Bookcases is a subdivision of a much larger online furniture store (CSN Stores, who sell other things than […]

Nothing Belongs To Us: the Anti-property Universe

Human beings are funny creatures. I should know; I’m one of them. We have, with rare exception, an unhealthy obsession with ownership. The T.V. in my house? Mine. The books and shelves? Mine. The nine leopard geckos? Mine. It’s not unusual for us to claim ownership, to want to have control, psychological or otherwise, of […]