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Thoughts & Things

Star Trek Invasion!

by Bill Ward on March 2, 2010

in Thoughts & Things

I first saw this cavalcade of wrongness via a link over at John Ottinger’s Grasping for the Wind. It is perhaps funnier than it has any right to be.
Star Trek Invasion, an assortment of photoshopped Trek tributes at Something Awful.

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Winter Wonderland

by Bill Ward on February 3, 2010

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Two Year Blogiversary

by Bill Ward on January 20, 2010

in Thoughts & Things

So, as of today — right this very instant! — this site is two years old. And boy has a lot changed.
I mean, two years ago who could have imagined that computers would one day be the size of toasters? Or that music would be performed by cybernetic dolphins? Or that men would one day [...]

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There are some interesting discussions going on around the web about which direction publishing — specifically the publishing of genre short fiction — may be headed. It’s no secret that many of the smaller print magazines are closing down, something I wrote about in Vanishing Print Zines, and that the ‘big three’ have been limping [...]

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Dragon*Con Returned

by Bill Ward on September 8, 2009

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So, what did I bring back from this year’s D-con? A bad cold, for starts. But also some Gene Wolfe books signed in person by the Maestro himself, some dirt-cheap graphic novels, and a few other assorted textual tidbits. Of course, there are also some pictures (of which, I’m ashamed to say, I took far [...]

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Dragon*Con Bound

by Bill Ward on September 3, 2009

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Right, my intrepid readers, I am off to the city with the lowest membership numbers for the William Tecumseh Sherman fanclub — yes, Atlanta, home of that yearly geek debauch Dragoncon. I have a camera and a newly acquired netbook, but whether I will use them to bring you an insightful and penetrating con report, [...]

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Fracturing Foot-In-Mouth

by Bill Ward on August 14, 2009

in Black Gate Blog, Thoughts & Things

James Enge recently posted a short exploration of the perils of too much freedom to publish — what happens when a writer runs off at the mouth online and bad poison drips out. Not a good way to make friends, James says, or advance a career. Maybe blogging isn’t such a great idea for writers, [...]

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And the Moral of the Story Is . . . ?

by Bill Ward on July 20, 2009

in Thoughts & Things

A couple of weeks ago I saved a groundhog from drowning. I later found out his name was Sidney.
I have an irrationally deep affection for rodents. In fact, if I were to be granted the proverbial three wishes, I’d definitely blow one on conjuring a trained rat as big as a horse — complete with [...]

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