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Movie (Cough, Cough) Trailer: The Oregon Trail

If you’ve played it, you get it. If you haven’t, you won’t.

Free Reading: That Was The Millennium That Was by John Scalzi

Before he goes on a blogging hiatus for six weeks, John Scalzi has a little gift for all his readers.

A decade ago, I wrote a series of entries which I called “That Was The Millennium That Was,” chronicling what I thought were some of the best, worst and weirdest things of the last millennium. It [...]

Book Review: What Were Once Miracles Are Now Children’s Toys by Ira Nayman

Genre: Humor
Paperback: 258 pages
Publisher: Eloquent Books
Publication Date: February 26, 2010
ISBN-10: 1609112342
ISBN-13: 978-1609112349
Author Website: Ira Nayman
What Were Once Miracles Are Now Children’s Toys is the second collection of alternated news stories by Ira Nayman. The premise of the book is like a newspaper, filled with stories of an alternate world. Of course, being releases as a [...]

COLUMN: ROBOT IS THE NEW VAMPIRE

In the popular mythology of vampires, these undead creatures are difficult to kill, but it isn’t impossible. A wooden stake through the heart will do it. Sometimes the barest touch of a ray of sunlight will reduce them to ashes or even make them explode. If you want to get Old School, you can immerse [...]

Now isn’t this a real fun music video?

Only Bollywood.

[Via John C. Wright]

Book Blogger Appreciation Week September 13-17, 2010

I am announcing my nomination for Best Speculative Fiction Blog for Book Blogger Appreciation Week coming in September.
As part of the nomination process I am asked to post links to five past posts that I think are representative of why I deserve to win the nomination. I chose these five:
1. Review of the The [...]

Music Video: Writers Blok by Jackson Pierce

Here’s a parody of Lady Gaga’s “Just Dance” by author Jackson Pierce relevant to anyone who writes. Hilarious!

Book Review: How to Defeat Your Own Clone by Kyle Kurpinski and Terry D. Johnson

Genre: Nonfiction, Humor
Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Bantam; Original edition
Publication Date: February 23, 2010
ISBN-10: 055338578X
ISBN-13: 978-0553385786
Author Website: Kyle Kurpinski and Terry D. Johnson
How to Defeat Your Own Clone is one of those books that is nonfiction, but that is much more entertaining than that appellation implies. Co-written by a research scientist and a bioengineer (both with [...]

Video: the Beholder interviewed

NOT an interview I would want to conduct…

Video: Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer…interviewed in a bathtub!

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