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My latest podcast is up on the New Books Network website! In it, I interview James Crossland about his history of the various efforts in the West in the 19th century to control war. Enjoy!
My latest podcast is up on the New Books Network website! In it, I interview James Crossland about his history of the various efforts in the West in the 19th century to control war. Enjoy!
Mental masturbation overload that led to wars...
Can TV, radio, Internet or Music kill more of the neurons they stimulate? And why are we so attracted to this most amazing form of expression?
Peace humanity highest potential is still waiting...
I don't play Cards Against Humanity or even know that much about it, but I still love this Imperial Radch-themed version. I found out about it via Twitter. Some nice examples:
http://annleckie.tumblr.com/post/149028245511/chanderclear-the-best-of-tonights-cards-against
My favorites from those:
What's Breq's secret kink? The sound Kalr Five makes when someone breaks a tea cup
Everyone was horrified when the morning cast suggested that mutually-assured destruction was the most auspicious course of action one could take today.
Anaander Mianaai's latest cause of death was Anaander Mianaai.
I'm starting to think it might be time for a reread of, at the very least, Ancillary Mercy. The third book in the trilogy always makes me happy. That said, I'm still enjoying the political minefield of A Matter of Oaths and Bren's ongoing search for friendship in Inheritor (yes, there's more going on, but I'm having so much fun with the inner emotional drama).
What a horrible, lying, Christian jerk who happened to write a lot of crap books.
I was thinking if you read his books, because you like this jerk, I'm quite certain that we could not be friends.
If you read these books for research for how someone who is fucked in the head by Jesus think, then my hat-off to you if you didn't throw up.
These books wasted the sacrifice of tress. Don't get too curious as to encourage publishers to print more crap like these.
Yes. I know he blamed the killing of journalists on the lack of religiosity of Christians. Seriously? How this jerk mind works is really scary and puzzling.
An interesting look at how divisive the relationship between authors and readers can become. Kathleen Hale is a nutcase (as the writer agrees), but there are some fans and reviewers out there who have done some pretty horrible things, too.
I'm sad that this article revealed that Alice Hoffman, one of my favorite writers, once put the phone number of a reviewer online in retribution. It wasn't even a negative review, just a tepid one. I also unfollowed Anne Rice (another favorite) today for her ridiculously blind support of Hale's "bravery" in revealing her behavior to the world and confronting "abuse" online.
This week is depressing me terribly.
