Amnesia

I would have wished you a happy fourth of July, but I was out with my son on a New England Aquarium whale watch! We took the sunset cruise and ran into a bunch of whales who happened to be practicing for the synchronized swimming event at the olympics.

As the sun set, we cruised back into Boston Harbor, saw fireworks, the USS Constitution and the Queen Mary 2. She’s a big lady and apparently one of the biggest cruise ships to sail! Here’s the link to the photo album and I’ll be posting a video below.

(and the rocket’s red glare, indeed)

(But it’s totally ok. His is better and comes with visuals.) Also, I’m sure it was less of a ‘copy’ thing and more of a smart minds think alike type of thing.

Here’s the link to my original post, which someone took and posted on the xkcd forums. So far, I’ve had almost 100 new visitors in the past two days. So welcome visitors and worshipers of Randall Monroe. Feel free to try the cake.

But it might be a lie.

This up and coming artist has been accepted to the UConn art program, and her items are currently for sale via the Deviant Art site. If there is significant interest, we might move her gallery here where she’d be able to keep the bigger chunk of profits. College is expensive don’t you know! I am very lucky to have her as a cousin.

Here are a few of my favorites:

It’s up ovah here.

We follow Michael Collins deeper into enemy territory, watching the Solarian Marine Corps at their deadliest. The fate of a Rak’lan alien is dealt with as the skirmish ends an in turn sparks a debate about our own grasp of humanity.  

A Loss of Innocence  - Part Two
Story by Peter Hodges
Dramatic Reading by Kate Baker
Music: “Zombie Space Armageddon” & “23rd Century Monk” by Kate Baker

To coincide with the “Loss of Innocence” weekly podcasts, I am going to promote the new audiobook Pete and I are doing with the full and complete PDF of “The O’Leary Letters”.

Click here for the download.

Science fiction author, S.M. Stirling is interviewed over on Pete’s site this morning and next friday. S.M. Stirling’s long list of published works include:

The Protector’s War

Island in the Sea of Time

Dies the Fire

T2: The Future War

The Sky People

A Meeting at Corvallis

Conquistador

The Domination

The Sunrise Lands

and more!

Remember about two weeks ago when I told you that I would be on the radio? Well thanks to Vince O’Connor, I have the recording of the show! I have to admit, it was a little odd having an entire 25 minutes of the show dedicated to my music, and I can’t be held accountable for any delusions of grandeur it may have caused in my head.

So yeah people, bow down!

I mean, enjoy! You can access the file below by streaming it, or dl’ing it. Thanks again, Vince!

Also, a huge thanks to John Scalzi, for allowing Vince to play “Why Don’t You Love Me”, the song to which John wrote the music and I hijacked with permission, (read, “collaborated”) to write the words and sing. You continue to rock, John!

 

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Tom (a.k.a. Snave) has compiled all of the stories so far on one page, incase you’re one of those lazy bastards who hates clicking on people’s links.

It is here.

Thanks, Tom! I’m off to be a lazy bastard.

Dear Kathryn,

We’ll be contacting you via phone with more information but we wanted to be the first to congratulate you in winning the Sting Fan Club’s “Sing with Sting” contest! Over 3,000 people submitted the required audition tapes for consideration and although narrowing down the initial field was somewhat difficult, your audition was unanimously selected as our lucky winner!

Just in case you forgot, the grand prize winner will receive:

• Airfare to New York!
• 3 nights at the newly renovated Plaza Hotel!
• $2000.00 spending money!
• Red-carpet treatment with a makeover by John Barrett Salon in NYC!
• Two backstage passes for loved ones to enjoy the show

Oh, and we almost forgot! You’ve also been selected to sing the song you originally submitted,  ”The Pirate’s Bride” with Sting himself on opening night!

If you’re still alive after reading this email, we encourage you to familiarize yourself once again with our contest rules.

For those of you who are interested, the new author interview with Patrick Rothfuss is up on Pete’s site. Pat wrote “The Name of the Wind”, which in my opinion is one of my favorite Fantasy books of all time, and is an instant classic.

I met Pat back in Boston a few months ago, and despite the hobbit-esque hairiness, he is a both a gentleman and scholar. If you ever get the chance to attend a signing or a reading, do not miss out.

Enjoy the interview and feel free to leave comments!