The Washington Science Fiction Association is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2011 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction (published in 2010 ( Read more... )

Home from Reno and getting the apartment cleaned up for my Capclave committee meeting on Sunday ( Read more... )

Been in Reno since Saturday. Flight out was uneventful. However, the decision to stay up all night so that I would be sure to be ready for the 4am shuttle to BWI was not the brightest one I've ever made. Don't think I'll be flying out of BWI in the future. It's not a very well run or well organized airport ( Read more... )

Up in NYC for the weekend. Went with my mom to the Harvard Club last night for the "New England Shore Dinner." I had New England clam chowder surf and turf and my mom had ribs and we split an order of sorbet for dessert. And we both had popovers, which is sort of a signature of the club dining room ( Read more... )

Went to San Francisco with my mom for my nephew's 6th birthday. Unlike the last 3 years when it was sunny and in the mid-80s, this time the weather was actually what you'd expect for SF in July, which is to say the temperature didn't go over 65 and it was mostly gray and foggy. It made a nice change from 85 and muggy on the east coast ( Read more... )

Via SFSignal.com I won a ticket to the screening of a film of my choice at the New York Asian Film Festival. When I entered the drawing, I looked at stuff for this weekend and settled on Dragon Gate Inn, starring Brigitte Lin, Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung and Donnie Yen. I Had seen the original 1960s King Hu directed movie starring Hsu Feng around ( Read more... )

The last couple of months I've been reading a delightful webcomic called Modest Medusa about a guy who comes home to find a medusa in his closet. This is not a scary medusa, but a funny medusa that eats chocodiles and mistakes the toilet for a waterbed. The comic has recently taken a darker turn. Involving a chainsaw unicorn. Which is awesome ( Read more... )

So far, the holiday weekend has been pretty good. Friday night was the WSFA meeting. Things went smoothly during the relatively quick business meeting and the club voted in favor of my proposal for getting business cards printed with the info for the 2011-2013 Capclave cons on one side and the info for the club, the small press award and wsfa ( Read more... )

Haven't posted here in a while. Not much interesting stuff happening. Finally got around to going to a Nats game at the ballpark instead of just watching on TV. So naturally that was the game where their winning streak ended ( Read more... )

Need to finish packing for Balticon. Party supplies were packed a couple days ago. Stuff I need to wear, not so much. I'm at the make sure you have underwear and toothpaste phase of packing. But I'm probably going to dump the bag and repack everything and do a careful recount to make sure I've packed the proper amounts of things ( Read more... )