An oil painting of Green — By artist Lindsey Look. This is cool.
Jade de Jay Lake — An apparently favorable review of the French translation of Green.
Almost All the Way Home From the Stars is now available as a trade paperback — Collaborative fiction from me and
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specficriderUnpacking the “Real Writers Have Talent” Myth — Yup. This. I've said for years you need some combination of talent, persistence and luck-facilitated-through-professionalism,
What Game of Thrones Season 3 Did Better — And Worse — Than the Book
Vintage Buses — Ooh. Though when it comes to buses, I always wanted one of these.
Human-scale invisibility cloak unveiled — I see what they did there, with that headline.
100 years after ore boat disappeared in Lake Superior storm, searchers locate wreck
Department of Unusual Ordnance Finds — Huh. Increment charges. Who knew? (Via Daily Idioms, Annotated.)
Old Opportunity Mars rover makes rock discovery — Ah, clay.
Waiting on new climate deal 'will set world on a path to 5C warming' — International Energy Agency chief economist says rising emissions make limiting increase to 2C 'extremely challenging' As always, the real world doesn't conform to conservative ideology. History will be baffled that one country's minority political party whose ideology is based on blatant and knowing counterfactuals managed to hold the entire word hostage and cause trillions of dollars worth of damage in the process.
Biblical Marriage Not Defined Simply As One Man, One Woman: Iowa Religious Scholars' Op-Ed — "The debate about marriage equality often centers, however discretely, on an appeal to the Bible," the authors wrote. "Unfortunately, such appeals often reflect a lack of biblical literacy on the part of those who use that complex collection of texts as an authority to enact modern social policy." That's the Republican party sorted right there. Too bad no one in conservative circles ever listens to reality-based messages like this.
Civil Disobedience on a Turkish Game Show — That is some serious courage. (Via
danjiteI'm Not A Conservative And You Shouldn't Be One Either — What if the problem with your political party is that the policies it advocates are bad? You can't fix that problem by "rebranding" the same platform or finding younger, less-white candidates to promote it. You definitely can't fix it by leaning into your failed policies and becoming more extreme.
Its the Corporations, Stupid: Why we are 2nd Amendment Fundamentalists but the 4th Amendment doesn’t Count — Actually, it's the conservatives, who will hold the line on the 2nd Amendment no matter how many tens of thousands of people die every year, but otherwise believe you can't use your civil liberties if you're dead, and are willing to legislate away the entire rest of the Bill of Rights for fear of Muslims in America's bathroom.
QotD?: Got any good advice?
6/10/2013
Writing time yesterday: 0.75 hours (WRPA)
Hours slept: 6.5 hours (interrupted)
Body movement: 0.5 hours (stationary bike)
Weight: 246.8
Number of FEMA troops on my block creating tornados for political distraction: 0
Currently reading: Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day Program by Sharon Salzberg