New York Times: “The RadioShack Corporation, the electronics retailer, has followed through on plans to cut about 400 jobs, but it has been put on…
If ever there was an interviewer more perfectly complemented to talk with Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie about Lost Girls, it’s Susie Bright. This interview,…
An unfortunate event occurred at an n+1 fundraiser. The gang managed to raise $3,000, only to wake up the next morning with the loot gone….
When I was five, there was a gigantic map of Santa Clara County that hung on my bedroom wall. I can’t recall the precise circumstances…
It goes without saying that when an online punkass posts an extravagant claim about a major writer[1], he must be prepared to, in the parlance…
The Register: “An attempted burglary of a Liverpool sports store was foiled after a vulture-eyed viewer of a Beatles-related webcam alerted police.”
New York Times: “Far from being slow learners, manatees, it turns out, are as adept at experimental tasks as dolphins, though they are slower-moving and,…
Violet Blue doesn’t like me very much, but I’m happy to learn that she’s landed a gig as the Chron‘s sex columnist. Kudos to Phil…
Heya kids. It’s time to tear Edward Champion a new one! If you have any choice words that you’d like to offer me, I will…
Mercury News: “The number of books threatened with removal from library shelves dropped last year to its lowest total on record, with 405 challenges reported…
Joseph Stefano, the man behind some of the great episodes of the original Outer Limits and, of course, the script for Psycho, has passed away.
12 Lemony Snickets summarized in two minutes. Wonder if Handler (or the marketing people) got the idea from here. (via Magnificent Octopus)
New York Times Corrections: “An article in Weekend on Friday about free online audiobooks of works in the public domain referred incorrectly to Arlene Goldbard,…
A long lost love poem from Marlene Dietrich to Ronald Reagan has been found. Even more interestingly, the poem was typed on Noel Coward’s typewriter….
Arab Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz has died. He was 94. Laila promises to have more. Levi Asher serves up five comic books you may not…
Milwaukee has been named “America’s Drunken City” — by no less an eminence than Forbes. San Francisco isn’t on the list. Neither is Los Angeles…
At the Harlan Ellison message board, Ellison has posted the following (which he gives permission to disseminate): Would you believe that, having left the Hugo…
There’s a good deal of commotion over Michiko Kaukutani’s review of Jonathan Franzen’s The Discomfort Zone. Has Michiko gone too far? Having read most of…
The Paris Review‘s DNA of Literature is now up to the 1970s. There appears to be no set schedule for when the good folks over…
Crooks & Liars: “During a segment on Bill Maher’s show–he flipped the audience off and cursed them out. I’ve seen Maher ask the audience to…
GalleyCat reports on this Stephen Thompson review of Vikram Chandra’s Sacred Games. The opening paragraph reads: There are certain books that are so similar to…
[Photo removed at the request of Keith Stokes. Offending image available here.] [UPDATE: Keith Stokes continues to play a game of cultural revisionism, regularly changing…
Rick Kleffel has Harlan Ellison’s one-man WorldCon panel on tape. Kleffel assures that it will offend everyone, but it seems rather tame and a bit…
Author: Robert Birnbaum Condition of Mr. Segundo: Detached but amused by the pair-up. Subjects Discussed: The value of conducting interviews at a cemetery, Ed Champion’s…
Author: Jeff VanderMeer Condition of Mr. Segundo: Coming to terms with troubling generalizations. Subjects Discussed: Mushrooms as inspiration, writing “Dradin in Love” while suffering from…
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