Hockey Season (yes, capital H, capital S) approaches! My eldest asks every morning if it snowed outside (humidex read 35°C today) and if the city put up the boards yet! We have tickets to see the Ottawa 67s take on […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Why do Vampire avoid crucifixes? To prevent cross contamination. Boo-ya. As you were, InterWebberTubes.
My mother-in-law remains stuck in her town, no electricity, but the water is still running. She’s on a hill, but on the coast. The low-lying areas had evacuated yesterday in preparation. She said she’d come here if the power didn’t […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So! Can-Con has put up a tentative schedule! w00t! Panels look interesting and fun, and they contain, on a quick skim, a good cross-section of Canadian genre fiction writers (including half the Tesseracts 15 contributors), artists, fans, and Ed the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m in the midst of a new story now. My usual technique, discovery writing, has left me with three novels in the trunk with only two that have a solid enough foundation to re-rewrite into something viable. This time I’ve […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As I mentioned last post, Chris Garcia really, really appreciated winning the Fanzine Hugo. Now you can see him enjoy winning too! Hat tip to John Scalzi for the link. Note that you’ll have to sit through a brief ad. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I had a great time watching the Hugo awards last night. I wished I could attend, but this worked for me. Good job to the techies that set it up! The provided stream glitched on me only a couple of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I have my popcorn ready to pop, a couple of beers in the fridge and the Interwebs humming at a cool 15 MB/s. I’ll hopefully watch it on the live feed. It would be better if I could attend in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My jealousy rages as I follow the #renosf twitter feed. How I wish, how I wish I was there… To make up for the lack of Renovation this year (and ChiCon next year, alas), I have a three-fold plan: I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Or something like that. I have some more stuff to post and a lot of emails to answer, but I crammed my week so full of Vegas recovery, family reintegration, stag parties and golf outings that I’m still not sure […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…