Category: Crazy People

  • Hello Kitty Hell

    Ever been?

  • Frozen Grand Central

    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwMj3PJDxuo] It’s been making the rounds in the internet, but just in case you’ve missed it, check out this very cool experiment. (Thanks for the link Maureen!)

  • Ever wonder what happens at Spec-fic Conventions?

    Read the witty and insightful and sober essay, I Like Writing But Hate Being a Writer, by Richard Bowes.

  • I love crazy things

    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA1NoOOoaNw] A wonderfully ridiculously subtitled old Indian video (I hope it’s old). The subtitles aren’t a translation, but what the listener thinks the lyrics sound like to an English speaker’s ear. I laughed a lot. Hope you do too. (Thanks to Jason Lundberg for the link).

  • Beautiful useless things

    This article is yet more proof why Japan is a fantasy land without question.  I love the last line of dialogue reported in this sooo much.

  • For Scott Westerfeld

    Reading on Scott Westerfeld’s wife’s Justine Larbelestier’s blog that poor Scott has been deemed “not pretty at all” in a journalistic attempt to play on the titles of his YA Uglies series, I feel compelled to remind all of us of the serious nature of beauty evaluation, and how damaging it can be. Allow me…

  • The Stage, Halloween Style

    Come to it and get up there!

  • Speechless

    You know, I knew Matt Cheney had declared there would be a Barzak World Domination Day, and that he had contacted some people to blog with him about it. But I spent most of this afternoon between class and gym and class and tv interview seeing that list of links on Mr. Cheney’s Mumpsimus grow…

  • All about me…

    Over at The Swivet there’s a reallllllly long interview with me, and is also giving away copies of One for Sorrow if you answer one question for Colleen in the comments. Hey, free books, what’s not to love? And the so-called Barzak World Domination Day has begun, thanks to the evil machinations of one Matt…

  • There goes the neighborhood

    The Lutheran church across the street from my apartment building set up a little performance area tonight, with a backdrop cloth that said “Elvis Lives”. When the sun went down, fifteen cars showed up, then people got out of their cars with folding chairs and arranged them about fifty feet across the parking lot from…