November 2004

ligotti interview

November 26, 2004

in Links

And while I’m on the subject of horror fiction inspired by Lovecraft, here’s a good interview with Thomas Ligotti on Fantastic Metropolis. Ligotti is a hugely fascinating writer to me, because his stuff is just so different from anything else out there. His work is just so breathtakingly creative. Its tough to run across his [...]

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pumpkin

November 26, 2004

in Links, Stories

A cute Halloween short story spoofing Lovecraft from over on Strange Horizons: The Great Old Pumpkin, by John Aegard (yes, I’m late.)

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girls of geekdom calendar

November 26, 2004

in Links

I am deeply unconvinced that any of the girls portrayed in the 2005 Girls of Geekdom calendar are actually, you know, geeks. And besides, EW EW EW EW. (I got it from Chris Pirillo.)

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I admit it, I am having a lot of trouble getting into Neal Stephenson’s Quicksilver. So complex! So well researched! So ambitious! So …. Zzzzzzzz. I’m trying. Really I am. Part of the problem is that I look at it on the bedside table and I think, oh god, 600 pages of this, and then [...]

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Seems like a lot of my blogging recently has been extended silences followed by me apologizing for my extended silences and explaining what I’ve been doing instead. So, here I am again doing just that. I’ve been working a lot. But I just finished up that little mini-contract so now I can get back to [...]

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