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Accumulated marginalia 2

Various links and marginalia accumulated over the last week or so:

It took Chad at Clean Cut Kid to bring to my attention that today is Bob Dylan’s 65th birthday. I join Chad in saying happy birthday Bob and add wishes for many, many more. My MinusCar friend got a visitor via one of the […]

Accumulated marginalia

Two former Stampede teammates — Buffalo’s Thomas Vanek and Carolina’s Chad LaRose — will face each other in the Stanley Cup Eastern Conference finals. They are the first two Stampede alum to play in the NHL. Game 1 in the series is Saturday afternoon on NBC. How not to treat your guest of honor. The […]

Marginalia for May 9

Pyr, the relatively new and top-notch SF imprint of Prometheus Books, has launched its own blog called Pyr-o-mania. Joe Haldeman’s Camouflage woon the Nebula Award for best novel. And while I don’t usually follow this award, Serenity won for best script. Erica Wagner has a nice concise piece in Sunday’s UK Times on the purpose […]

Weekend marginalia

As the blog shows, I am getting caught up on my book reviews. In fact, the last two were also being picked up by advance.net. Anyway, with at least two more on the front burner, here’s some accumulated material for the weekend.

First a couple minor rhetorical rants:

What part of the word FICTION is […]

Returning marginalia

As usual, being gone for a few days leaves me behind both at work and on the homefront. That plus recovering from the Stampede loss in the Clark Cup championship game tonight means it will be a bit longer before regular programming resumes with several book reviews, etc., In the interim:

My friend Mike at […]