Monthly Archives: May 2007

Becks on Fire

5/31/2007 – 10:19 am

One of my biggest peeves in the footie world is the constant unwarranted criticism of David Beckham. First off, let it be said that the man has his deficiencies. He’s slow. He can’t tackle. He drifts out of games fairly regularly. He has a temper. He collects stupid cards. He’s not the brightest. He’s way [...]

By Trent | Posted in * Footie | Comments (0)

Obligatory WisCon Report

5/30/2007 – 10:44 am

Right, so WisCon is less of a sprint and more of a marathon as it starts Thursday in bits and continues to mid-day Monday. I skipped Thursday’s meet-n-greet and didn’t actually head up to the convention until Friday night about six, when I went out to dinner. See two posts ago to get a recap [...]

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The Living Dead

5/28/2007 – 12:52 pm

My WisCon 2007 has mercifully ended. It was a wonderful time and I loved just about every minute of it, but now I’m hoarse and dead tired. I met a ton of wonderful people for the first time and talked with a lot of people I met at previous WisCons or World Fantasy. Here’s a [...]

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Heading Back to WisCon

5/26/2007 – 12:06 pm

/ Had a lovely night last night chatting people up at WisCon. Went out to eat and had a few drinks with Clarion homegirls Tenea Johnson and Rebecca Rowe and had some great conversation about the boundaries of sci-fi, fantasy, slipstream, China Mieville, Octavia Butler, genetics, babies, foreign wars, European football, and probably a lot [...]

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News Flash: The Chicago Fire Suck

5/24/2007 – 10:45 pm

With great anticipation did I watch my first Fire game of the season two weekends ago. They lost 3-1 to Toronto who, at that point, had yet to score a goal. Fine, whatever. So then last week I watched the Thursday match against Dallas, one of the teams I love to hate. And watched the [...]

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Booked Solid

5/22/2007 – 4:15 pm

Good lord, I just checked out my list of short stories out in the world as well as those queued up for launch and one thing is for certain: I don’t need to be working on any more short stories this summer. This is actually a blessing (or a curse) since that means I ought [...]

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The Kids are Alright and WisCon

5/22/2007 – 1:30 pm

I’m about half-way through J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Children of Húrin and I have to say I’m a bit underwhelmed. It’s not that the story is bad necessarily, but rather it just doesn’t feel right. The tone is stuck somewhere between the archness of The Silmarillion and the closer perspective of Lord of the Rings, and [...]

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Yay Amy!

5/20/2007 – 11:22 am

My lovely wife Amy graduated from her Nurse Practitioner’s program at UW-Madison yesterday. It’s been a three-year slog of classroom, clinicals, and working the daily grind at her day job in the allergy clinic. Now, after completing her summer clinical hours, she’ll be a Nurse Practitioner; if you don’t know what an NP does, maybe [...]

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The Nameless Post

5/18/2007 – 5:05 pm

Via the Onion: Favre Demands Trade to 1996 Packers I’m almost done with China Miéville’s King Rat and I’m really enjoying it. Miéville doesn’t waste any time launching into the plot in this one. It’s an updated and urban version of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, only it takes place in London. Like Perdido Street [...]

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More HD, Less Productivity

5/17/2007 – 2:37 pm

Amy called Dish Network to protest a pay-per-view movie neither one of us ordered (keep it clean—it was Casino Royale) and found out about a new promotion that allows us to get the expanded HD package that, after incentives and what not, costs the same as what we have now only we get HD DVR [...]

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