Some TV Linkage
I’m a little tired and don’t have much time today, so have some TV-related linkage instead: Salon has a terribly condescending article about half of Sweden watching a particular Disney holiday special...
View ArticleA Hustle moment and some links
At school today, I was practicing asking for and giving directions with the kids. First we used a practice map of a made-up town stuffed full with all sorts of interesting places to go and then the...
View ArticleWhile I was away – Link Roud-Up
Since the Internet didn’t stop, while I couldn’t access my site, here is a link round-up: Steampunk as viewed from a romance perspective at All About Romance. Star Wars tie-in novels viewed from a...
View ArticlePondering the new TV
I’ve been gradually organizing the channels on my new TV, so that TV channels I actually watch are at the front of the channel list, the German language channels I don’t watch except under certain...
View ArticleRuminations on Mad Men
There have been at least two article of late where a writer explains why he doesn’t like the 1960s advertising industry drama Mad Men. Here’s an appraisal from the New York Review of Books that I...
View ArticleTwin Peaks, Rita nominations, lots of e-book links and democracy at work?
I’m busy today, so here’s a linkdump. Lots of e-book and indie publishing links as well as some other stuff: Everybody is talking about Barry Eisler and Amanda Hocking,now they talk to each other....
View ArticleGood Sex, Bad Sex and HBO Style Sex
While following a link to something else, I came across this neat blogpost from July 2010: Nicola Griffith wonders why good sex in fiction is often considered unrealistic. Now I have read descriptions...
View ArticleFictional Riches
Who would have thought that Forbes Magazine, that indispensable prop carried around by business students hoping to impress girls (I was that girl and distinctly unimpressed), had a sense of humour? But...
View ArticleEpic and Urban Fantasy Linkdump
Lots of people are thinking about epic fantasy, urban fantasy, gender and what makes a genre at the moment. And since I’m too tired to write something myself, here is a linkdump: At the Guardian...
View ArticleA killer is captured, politicians plagiarise and the soap opera is dying
I have got a couple of mixed news links for today, two serious and one not so much. The good news first: The paedophile serial killer who killed at least three young boys in North Germany in the past...
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Some Comments on the 2017 Dragon Awards Winners
The Dragon Awards, a new “popular” SFF award handed out at Dragon Con in Atlanta, Georgia, have been plagued by controversy in their first two years. I blogged about some of it, though the vast...
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