Scholars of pop culture know that celebrity culture is hardly a recent creation. You can read the newspapers of the 19th century (and earlier) and get the same obsession with celebrities, the sam...
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"I almost died and it's all your fault!" Harlan Ellison's phone calls are legendary. For a brief period, I received them on a regular basis. Some went well, some, like the one the quote above cam...
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The 2015 Hugo Awards have come and gone, resulting in a record five (5) categories where "No Award" was given in response to the Sad Puppy/Rabid Puppy attempts to game the system and ensure the ...
http://nofearofthefuture.blogspot.com/2015/08/on-spaying-and-neutering-of-puppies-sad.html
Armadillocon has come and gone for another year. The 2015 edition was a very good one, indeed. Attendance seemed significantly up from last year, panels were well-attended and an energy permeate...
http://nofearofthefuture.blogspot.com/2015/07/armadillocon-2015-in-rear-view-mirror.html
Sir Terry Pratchett died yesterday after a battle with early-onset Alzheimers. People far more eloquent than I have eulogized him elsewhere, and the hundreds of obituaries provide far more detai...
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I am re-watching the entire Babylon 5 television series. I had not seen a single episode since B5 completed its tumultuous run. Does J. Michael Straczynski still have the touch? Come along and f...
http://nofearofthefuture.blogspot.com/2014/10/babylon-5-war-prayer.html
I am re-watching the entire Babylon 5 television series. I had not seen a single episode since B5 completed its tumultuous run. Does J. Michael Straczynski still have the touch? Come along and f...
http://nofearofthefuture.blogspot.com/2014/09/babylon-5-mind-war.html
Welcome to my latest obsession: Sounds from space. I know, I know, space is for all practical purposes a vacuum (unless you're designing an interstellar ramjet) so sound as we know it doesn't ex...
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I cannot remember being so exhausted during and after a con as I have with Armadillocon 36 this past weekend. I don't know what was up with that, but despite turning in way early on Friday and ...
http://nofearofthefuture.blogspot.com/2014/07/that-was-armadillocon-that-was.html
I am re-watching the entire Babylon 5 television series. I had not seen a single episode since B5 completed its tumultuous run. Does J. Michael Straczynski still have the touch? Come along and f...
http://nofearofthefuture.blogspot.com/2014/07/babylon-5-parliament-of-dreams.html
I am re-watching the entire Babylon 5 television series along with my teenage daughter. I have not seen a single episode since B5 completed its tumultuous run, and Calista was just a few days ol...
http://nofearofthefuture.blogspot.com/2014/07/babylon-5-infection.html
Armadillocon 36 is approaching July 25-27, and seeing as how pretty much every other guest has shared his or her schedule via the interwebz, I figured it was high time I do so myself. Fashionabl...
http://nofearofthefuture.blogspot.com/2014/06/armadillocon-36-schedule.html
With the new Godzilla film tearing up the screens worldwide, I thought it apropos to revisit the most recent Japanese Godzilla film that preceded this American production. And that film would be...
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Back in the summer of 2000, one scorching August afternoon I made my way to the crummiest theater in Temple, Texas, because that was the only place showing Godzilla 2000. The film was the first ...
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Bidding now open KEYWORD SEARCH: CTTSO Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office TSWG Technical Support Working Group 360 degree scanning acoustic Advanced Analytics advanced ...
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Decades ago, James Tiptree, Jr., wrote a disturbing story (did she write any other kind?) titled "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" Not to spoil it for those readers who haven't gotten around to re...
http://nofearofthefuture.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-singularity-sperm.html
Some musings on Jim Jarmusch ruin porn, and how it can infect your weekend, at my Tumblr .
http://nofearofthefuture.blogspot.com/2014/04/some-musings-on-jim-jarmusch-ruin-porn.html
Wow. Real estate + small arms + social media = sovereign microstate . But what happens when the militia won't leave?
I am re-watching the entire Babylon 5 television series along with my teenage daughter. I have not seen a single episode since B5 completed its tumultuous run, and Calista was just a few days ol...
http://nofearofthefuture.blogspot.com/2014/04/babylon-5-soul-hunter.html
This . (At my Tumblr , which is where I'm doing most of my blogging these days. Come on over !)
http://nofearofthefuture.blogspot.com/2014/04/vanishing-surveillance.html
I am re-watching the entire Babylon 5 television series along with my teenage daughter. I have not seen a single episode since B5 completed its tumultuous run, and Calista was just a few days ol...
http://nofearofthefuture.blogspot.com/2014/02/babylon-5-midnight-on-firing-line.html
I've been possessed of a desire to re-watch the entire Babylon 5 television series of late. I have not seen a single episode since that groundbreaking series completed its tumultuous run, and am...
http://nofearofthefuture.blogspot.com/2014/02/babylon-5-gathering.html
You could only find the Impala by accident. It was way off trail, in the back part of a wetland tucked between an urban river and the woods behind a bunch of light factories. They were the k...
http://nofearofthefuture.blogspot.com/2013/11/requiem-for-muscle-car.html
The great John Picacio has one of those Kickstarter campaigns under way. If you haven't jumped on board with your support yet, do so now . You've got six days to go. The project's already funde...
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A decade ago I wrote a story about a clandestine group of U.S. psychological warfare operatives who commissioned a piece of post-Frazetta sword & sorcery fantasy art as a secret weapon to in...
http://nofearofthefuture.blogspot.com/2013/09/jackson-pollock-covert-propaganda-asset.html