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I saw Okkervil River on Austin City Limits several weeks ago. Nice band. Two from this year I'm liking are: The Dirty Heads - Any Port in a Storm The Black Keys - Brothers

Stewart, I think you missed the joke on that one.

Annoyed? Nah. Just hot and hung over.

Star Maker - Olaf Stapledon Greg Egan has some of the best ideas in sf short stories like Wang's Carpets, Riding the Crocodile and Closer. And if you liked Manifold:Time you might as well try Baxter's Xeelee series too. Raft and Timelike Infinity were excellent. Probably Ian Banks Culture...

The Windup Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi Wonderful bleak look at a near future earth that is hot, plague infested and low tech.

I think it was something from a nearby universe. One in which it's physical body is able to travel from without light ever hitting it and thereby remaining invisible. Sheesh, wasn't it obvious?

It's all true unfortunately. These are arguments I've heard teachers make when I suggest the idea. Who said anything about extending the school year? It's a reorganization of what summer break should look like if there's one at all. Lengthening the school year is a separate conversation. (Paying...

Card claims to be a Democrat yet everything that I've heard him say sounds like a conventional reactionary, but I would still probably buy a book of his if it interested me. He seems to have similar tastes to me judging by some of the anthologies he edits and book blurbs he gives.

Usually I am almost completely ignorant of the author's personal beliefs, but if I do know something about an author's views it could definitely affect whether I read work done by that person. And that could mean I might choose to read it because I disagree or choose to not read it because I...

Very true. They go on cruise control a couple weeks, at least, before summer break and take another week in September to get going. With multiple smaller breaks they might be even less efficient.

...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead

You'd get resistance from the teacher's unions simply because they tend to resist change. The argument is also made by teachers that need that time for classes for themselves, second jobs, surgeries and, my personal favorite, "because that's how we've always done it."

And not a 'mature' discussion, simply a place for the profession to receive its just dues.

I know I was going to get to some more horror, and I will still, but you ought to try Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast by Eugie Foster. It's more straight fantasy and one of the best I've read this year.

I suggested to a fellow teacher that maybe we could go four days a week and make summer break more like four weeks instead of eleven. The response I got was shockingly stupid. He said then we wouldn't get paid as much because we wouldn't work as many days in the month. This is a teacher who has...

What Was It?

Nah, I won't post a thread on Pigeons From Hell. It wasn't a standout for me. I did read my first story by Caitlin Kiernan recently. It was called In the Water Works (Birmingham Alabama 1888). Slightly grotesque but I'm not going to bother with a thread for it either. I read another old one that...

That's it. You've better web searching skills than I.

That reminds me of something Stephen King once said about why he writes. Putting his scariest thoughts down on paper as a story helps him confront his own fears. Sharing them makes them less real. I read Pigeons From Hell by Robert E. Howard the other day and liked it pretty well. I can't...

Nice. There's also Pseudopod for more modern terror.