Monthly Archives: November 2006

This one came from Nick Mamatas via Andy. Instructions: Go to www.popCulturemadness.com and select the year you became 18. Paste the list of the top 75 songs. Bold the ones you liked; strike the ones you disliked; and italicize the … Continue reading →

Well, Bruce delivered the foreword to Ascendancies: The Best of Bruce Sterling this morning, so I put together the final ms. of the book and emailed it off to Subterranean Press. We’re only waiting on the introduction (the delay being … Continue reading →

At the close of play on Saturday the UK’s Guardian referred to the Brisbane Cricket Ground at Woolloongabba as the ‘Gabbattoir’. A lacklustre England were on the ropes and being played with by a dominant Australia. What a difference a … Continue reading →

Tomorrow morning, at about 7.30am Perth local time, it starts. The bloodbath in Brisbane is the opening round of the 2006/2007 Ashes, and it’s going to be something. There’s a lot of talk about how the series will progress, who … Continue reading →

There’s a meme going around. Respond to the SF Book Club’s Top 50. I might. I might not. The only one I’ve not read is the Willmar Shiras, and yet my life feel’s complete. Best response to the meme, though, … Continue reading →