Category: Cities
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Jefferson Market Library
Snagged this photo of Jefferson market library during a stormy Sunday in August. Soon after this photograph, we got rained on.
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Mystery Alaska Documentary
Over the past few years, I’ve worked in the background (as is the case with many of my projects and collaborations) on a mystery Alaska documentary. It’s still not greenlit for full length — it may never cross that line. But there’s enough money behind it now that I can share some photos and talk about…
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Writer Unboxed OnConference — review
Latest and least of these, I attended this year’s Writer UnBoxed OnConference. It seems to be a theme for me, showing up latest and least to WU. Due to a writing contest promoted by the great Porter Anderson, I won a scholarship to the first one. (That was back when I was still riding high…
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Nebula Award Winners
Nebula Award winners are a bit difficult to find gathered all in one post on the SFWA site, no offense to them. If you go to the SFWA site — for whom I remain obviously grateful — it’s several extra clicks to get to the proper year, which makes it rather difficult to search by author. I…
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Bad Intellectual: The Houellebecqian Case of Catherine Perez-Shakdam
Alors, les Français sont en train de flatter l’islam bien.Sadegh Hedayat Once, one of the Iranian politicians in the Parliament of Iran during his speech accounted a brief conversation with arteshbod Hossein Fardoust, some years after 1979. Fardoust was a friend of Shah and one of the most influential figures of SAVAK—in the last meeting…
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Fix A.I. Art — a petition
If we can teach college freshman to cite their sources, why can’t we fix A.I. art generators so that they do the same? The way that creators of A.I. art generators and the way that artists both talk about A.I. art generators is wrong. And the proof emerges in calculators. Does a calculator own the…
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Curated Podcasts from a Busy Coffee Shop
My workday requires 10-12 hours of nearly constant attention, which means if I’m going to listen and learn, I need a curated podcasts list. I run a coffee shop. I have a thousand breaks a day between customers, but they last 30 seconds at a time. This type of work is not right for consuming…
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Central Avenue; Albuquerque, New Mexico
It was Mayor Richard J. Berry’s legacy; the chance to have his name on a plaque so future generations could see who was responsible for the Albuquerque Rapid Transit (ART) initiative. The idea was to move the bus lanes to the middle of Central Avenue and establish an express line from downtown up through Nob…
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Frankenstein: The Intersection of Literature and Science — with Kathleen Ann Goonan at the World Fantasy Convention
On Thursday I gave a talk on Frankenstein: The Intersection of Literature and Science here at the World Fantasy Convention with the fabulous and brilliant Kathy Goonan, (unfortunately Ted Chaing’s train delayed him). Kathy offered a deep drink from her vast experience and knowledge and I think you’ll find it instructive as we continue reading…
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Sitting at the Feet of the Hogwarts Headmaster
Sgt. John Granger of the United States Marine Corps (stationed in Japan) was proud to say that he was perfectly normal, thank you very much. He was the last person you’d expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious — especially invocational magic — and the last person you would expect to become a Hogwarts headmaster…
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Mp3 Experiment 15 in Brooklyn Bridge Park by Improv Everywhere
Tara and I participated in this years mp3 experiment by improv everywhere. It involved a TON of people, a lot of noise and awkwardness, and a lot of laughs. I’ll give a free copy of OF GODS AND GLOBES to anyone that can find us in the video:
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Social Media Break : Post Mortem on my Year Off Social Media
People have asked me how my yearlong social media break went. Great and terrible. It was terrible because I failed in my goal to write every one who signed up for handwritten letters. On the upside of that failure, I wrote dozens and dozens of folks. I think I’m up to fifty or something, so…