Thanks, John! John Klima of Electric Velocipede gives my story “The Spaces Between Things” his Hugo vote. Also of note, friend and fellow Fluidian Saladin Ahmed, whom John suggests for the Campbell Award: http://blog.electricvelocipede.com/2010/03/2010-hugo-nominations.html

Last night, the folks in the house wanted to watch the Oscars, but we are all in a house at the top of a small mountain, and there is no television to be found.  But there were many laptops, and broadband wireless.  So with Googled blogs and followed Twitter feeds we discovered several web streams from which to watch the Oscars.  We all huddled around the laptop on the hard floor and watched a satellite feed from England rebroadcast to net viewers by some generous person, and when that failed, …

I’m very happy to announce this morning that my short story “The History Within Us” is up at Clarkesworld Magazine alongside a fine story from Gord Sellar and an interview with Kij Johnson.  You can read my story here.  And you can find the full issue here. The story’s genesis is an interesting one.  My father had several old reels of film from when he was a boy, back in the early 40s, which he had recently converted to DVD.  On one long weekend we added his narrative voice-overs, so he …

Drop what you’re doing right now and go read “Small Burdens” by Paul M. Berger, now up at Strange Horizons.  Granted, Paul is a friend of mine, and he’s in my writers group.  But had that not been the case I’d still be recommending this uber creepy and subtly told tale of faerie and cradle robbing.

We were talking at KGB last night about the resurgence of one of mankind’s most lamentable of facial fashions: the mustache.  Somewhere, mixed up in the current twenty-something culture of overwrought irony, someone thought it cute to bring back the 1970s porno ’stache.  Others, seeing hipster culture as a barometer of what will soon trickle into the mainstream concept of cool began letting their hair grow on their upper lip. Not just a brown dusting of shadow, but a fully grown, almost twirly at the edges ’stache, this seen as hip …