Nostalgia: Bleecker St, Tekserve, Blueberry iBooks, and old SF magazines
I went down a rabbit hole this morning, following a couple of threads from a couple of articles I was reading, which stirred up some old memories and made me […]
scifi
Bananapocalypse
Here’s a good article on the possibility of a coming bananapocalypse. It sounds kind of funny, but it’s a real problem. The world’s most popular fruit, the Cavendish banana, is […]
AD&D games and Doctor Who audio
I’ve blogged about AD&D gold box games a couple of times in the past. I finally got around to buying a bunch of them from GOG last week, when they […]
Weird Al and Star Trek and other stuff
Fairly soon, I will be heading into NYC for a day of (hopefully) fun. The main purpose of the trip is to see Weird Al at Radio City Music Hall […]
The Ten Doctors
I just finished reading The Ten Doctors. I started reading this on the advice of a friend who is a huge, long-time, Doctor Who fan. There are many references in […]
free F&SF magazine for Kindle
A free “digest” version of F&SF is now available for the Kindle (and also for the iPhone/iPad Kindle app). I remember picking up F&SF on the newsstand occasionally when I […]
Doctor Who
I’m really looking forward to this… (Update: There used to be a Doctor Who countdown timer here, but it appears to be dead now.)
Doctor Who: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Daleks (The Peter Jones-y Edit)
Hugos
The Hugo voter packet is out. I haven’t gotten an e-mail on it yet, but I’m hoping I will soon. There are a bunch of books in there I’d really […]
Scottish people are cool
I just realized that I’ve been paying a lot of attention to Scottish people lately. On TV: Craig Ferguson Music: Frightened Rabbit Reading: Charlie Stross I don’t have anything useful […]