Or: Driving through nowhere to get to somewhere. Author’s Note: I recently took a trip to Death Valley National Park, which lies on the eastern border of California. I went there ostensibly to do research for a story, but also because I’ve always loved the outdoors and I really wanted to visit. I went with …
I had this brilliant idea to do a blog post about horses in fiction and how they are misrepresented and how to do them justice. 5,000 words later I realized what I had was a series of blog posts, and ones that would need to be heavily proofed at that. So while those are getting shaken …
It is about an hour past midnight, in the wee hours of Christmas morning. The parents are safely asleep, and so I have just gotten back from creeping out into the living room and leaving them a little surprise in the stockings left hanging over our (entirely traditional) Christmas Victrola. Since I know neither of …
NOTE: I wrote this journal some time ago and have been sitting on it. However, this piece in the New Yorker made me realize now is the time to let it out. In her article, Joan Acocella talks about famous novels with bad endings, and postulates about why this is. I’m surprised she never touched …
Those of you who follow me on twitter (@GrimbyTweets) may have noticed my habit of posting links to a webcomic called Angeldevil every Friday. Perhaps you’ve followed them. Perhaps you’ve read what you’ve found there. Perhaps not. This Friday I’m posting the first chapter of the last volume of Angeldevil, and the last page of Angeldevil …
Today is Thanksgiving in the U.S., and I am hiding in my room. Soon I will go and place the massive Death and the Cat print order, but first I want to tell you about something silly that happened. Last weekend when I was tidying up my bathroom I came across a bauble I had purchased …
As I mentioned in yesterday’s con report for WFC 2012, the pictures I did of Death and the Cat for this short story were quite a hit. In fact, they sold out so fast that many people who wanted one did not even get a chance to place a bid! This kept being pointed out to me …
There is a perfectly reasonable explanation for how I ended up in a Chinese dumpling restaurant outside Toronto singing Jonathan Coulton’s Still Alive a cappella with Amber Scott to a table full of bemused women. It goes something like this: On Wednesday my Wonderful Mother and I flew to Toronto for World Fantasy. World Fantasy …
Being a complimentary art post to the web story of the same name that I posted here two weeks ago. Let’s just say that the Grim Reaper with a cute kitty was a visual theme I found hard to let go. These were all drawn over the course of a week using only a VBall …
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Intelligence doesn’t always look the way we expect it to. Human intelligence is one thing… but what of inhuman intelligence? Is it so alien as to be unrecognizable? Or are there universal constants through which we can communicate? Perhaps there are higher truths not subject to the whims of our perception, and through these we may find …
