This is a post for Intl. Blog Against Racism Week . My terms, definitions, and disclaimers . 50books_poc is a community for people trying to read 50 books by POC in a year, be it from IBARW to IBARW or a calendar year. I had half-heartedly committed to it when it was announced during IBARW last year, but upon doing my 2007 book write up , clearly I needed to make a more active effort...

keilexandra 's post reminded me of a rant I've had brewing. (On a side note, this post isn't meant to argue with hers, as I completely agree with her post. Like yeloson says , "Where you stand with intersectionality is really about what you're looking for—are you looking for social justice for all of us? Or are you just looking for someone to pull their foot off your neck, without...

Hello all, and thank you to ysabetwordsmith for directing me to this community! What follows is a recent post I made at my journal concerning my upcoming (and first!) foray into cyber-funded creativity. I hope some of you will be interested in checking it out: Introduction A couple of weeks ago, I invited all of you to give me writing prompts: one prompt per letter in the alphabet, in...

(via keilexandra  and remarknj ) Bold the ones you've read, italicize the ones you're planning to read, and underline the ones you loved. 1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (I read an abridged version about a zillion times when I was younger, but still haven't read the whole thing) 4. Harry Potter...

“The Ides of February” — A story I wrote with Bruce Holland Rogers is now online at Aberrant Dreams . A reader reacts to Logorrhea , ed. John Klima, [  Powell's | Amazon  ] — With some rather definite opinions. Blogging–It’s Good for You — Scientific American with an article about the therapeutic value of blogging. Note the comments about cancer, also about writers block and hypergraphia...

So keilexandra  finally discovered my ninja-account, beteio  , which means that this one is pretty much defunct. (Not that it wasn't before, but whatever.) Of course, I never posted here in the first place, and beteio  is basically only an archive of my DA journal (the posts there are usually a few minutes later, so there's not much difference). I feel kinda lame having an...

I've posted a short book review of GGK's poetry collection, Beyond This Dark House , over in my journal . Links to several transcribed excerpts are included, because I love him enough to want to share his words with the world.

Keilexandra comments on Ragamuffin , which she just read. I like reading comments by people who read Ragamuffin and not Crystal Rain, as I’m always insanely curious to see whether reading them out of order makes a difference. So far my informal poll is 2 readers who said it should be in order and 4 who said it doesn’t matter. More info here about Tor’s online SF/F websupersite plans . Speaking...

Short stories: " The Fluted Girl " by Paolo Bacigalupi (via  keilexandra ) and " The Last Stand of the Elephant Man " by Jennifer Pelland (via Scalzi ). Books: The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein.  No matter what your political views are, it's worth reading. Movies: Charlie Bartlett was quite good. Webcomics: pictures for sad children is love.  Also, Megatokyo is underrated, especially...

A year ago tonight, at this very hour, I was on a flight out to California to help raecarson pack up her house life to move out to Ohio. purdypiedad helped us pack, even after she nearly sliced her finger off, and we set off on a five-day drive cross country. On the way, coppervale and his brother treated us to great pie. There were some well-meaning folks who predicted...