Thursday night was the traditional unofficial opening with Jane Yolen and Kate Wilhelm reading at Room of One’s Own bookstore. Thanks to Liz Henry and John Kim for their help setting up the public computers. And Allan Moore is a hero. He ran to the big box store and found extra keyboards and mice. The [...]
Adam, I don’t disagree that Apple might be bragging, but do you have to use the “she was asking for it” analogy? Neither kinky boots, nor security boasts excuse assault.
Following up on yesterday’s story on the Oglala Sioux’s plan to establish a Planned Parenthood clinic at Pine Ridge Reservation to circumvent South Dakota’s abortion ban: Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota are the most likely organization to run it if it’s established. If you’re looking for a place to donate money, [...]
Ceilia Fire Thunder, the president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, responded to South Dakota’s law banning abortion by announcing that she’ll establish a Planned Parenthood clinic on the tribe’s Pine Ridge Reservation which sits inside of South Dakota. That got me thinking: The Oglala Sioux, like other tribes, run casinos. The casinos provide income and [...]
I’m copying over my review of Wen Spenser’s A Brother’s Price, short listed for the 2005 Tiptree Award, from my LJ. 0.2 product Wen Spencer’s A Brother’s Price reviewed Jan 23, 2006 by Bill Humphries ★★★★☆ Wen Spencer’s A Brother’s Price starts with a familiar conceit: a young, intelligent boy from the gentry meets a [...]
Geoff Ryman won the 2005 Tiptree Award for Air: Or, Have Not Have. I’m elated for Mr. Ryman. Back in 1990, I read the first chapters of Glen Engel-Cox‘s copy of The Child Garden, and had to have my own copy. The short list: Willful Creatures by Aimee Bender (Doubleday 2005) Wooden Bride by Margot [...]
Terrible news, author Octavia Butler died unexpectedly yesterday. The irony is that I’m up in Seattle, her home town, for a small science fiction convention. However, Ms Butler was a very private person, so we didn’t learn about this until someone checked in their blog rolls. Steve Barnes’ announcement Edward Champion confirms with the King [...]
Mary Tsao followed up on my post about WoolfCamp with a critical thing I missed: Sometimes after a long day of bellying up to the juice bar and being an on-demand short order cook, I would give anything (especially my kids) for a long uninterrupted conversation about how writing is as important to me as [...]
Cyn and I spent Saturday at Woolfcamp, a barcamp-style event, instigated by Grace Davis and Liz Henry. The Value of Jam/Camp Events Badger mentioned some A-list geek telling her that the original jam/camp organizing thing was now obviously “diluted past recognition”. Now it’s worthless. To which I say 愚か! Consider: You: Boss, can you send [...]
BlogHer, like WisCon, is about women, and like WisCon, men are welcome (despite persistent rumors.) Both are great conferences.
Doc Searls flew over my former home of Madison, WI last month on the way to Boston, and shot a decent photo of downtown and the University from the plane. I put in a plug for WisCon in the annotations.
Katha Pollitt: The big irony will be that if women writers and readers ever succeed in pressuring papers to hire more women columnists, the jobs will go to women who will write, endlessly, about the evils of working mothers and the usefulness of torture as a foreign-policy tool.
Annalee Newitz and Charlie Anders want stories from women active in geek culture for a collection of essays: We want introspective essays that explain what being a geek has meant to you. Describe how you’ve fought stereotypes to be accepted among nerds. Explore why you are obsessed with topics and ideas that are supposed to [...]
Women watching the SciFi channel in the UK outnumber the male viewers.
A couple of podcasts of note: Coverville had a special, hour-long show for Elvis Costello’s birthday back at the end of August. I like Blur’s version of Oliver’s Army, and the Bangles’ poppy cover of Tear Off Your Own Head. Jennifer Pelland has a story on Escape Pod, The Burning Bush: funny, and sacrilegious, but [...]