The goodbye game

The goodbye game

This last week is kinda crazy. There are people we’d love to say good­bye to in person but can’t for one reason or another – antho­lo­gie is booked up, mizchalmers is in New York, joedecker is in Patago­nia. We had a fab­ulous dinner with galagushka and Lars last...
The goodbye game

Safe travels, little black kitty

The crazy trip to LA to put Jezebel on a plane by her­self is now done. I don’t want to talk about SF fog and delays. Suf­fice to say that the nice man from the USDA waited for me, examined Jez, signed the paper­work, sealed the crate, even stamped the...

Sanity prevails

I am very glad to read that Gil­lian Gib­bons has been released in Sudan over this whole teddy bear incid­ent. I can’t remem­ber whose journal ini­tially linked to an art­icle inter­view­ing the seven-year-old boy who ini­tially sug­ges­ted the name but the...
The goodbye game

Is that the sound of Pauline Hanson choking?

In a book she wrote, well-known racist and scare­mon­ger, Sen­ator Pau­line Hanson, warned Aus­tralia about the future, where an Asian cyborg les­bian would be run­ning the coun­try [note: link goes to PDF of Hansard quot­ing the book]. Today, newly sworn-in...

For sale in Cupertino

We leave on Friday. The fol­low­ing *stuff* is avail­able for nom­inal dona­tions. It’s all in excel­lent con­di­tion, bought new at the begin­ning of the year or more recently, but won’t work in Oz.Four-disc DVD box set of Fire­fly­Mo­torola head­setElec­tric...