CBS Radio Workshop: I Was the Duke

I Was the Duke

A convicted forger interviews a fellow former convict about the reasons the criminal ended up as a career no-goodnick. Apparently the crook manages to turn his life around despite having a moral system based on such homilies as 'they had it, I did not have it, I wanted it so I took it.'

This has a fair amount of cursing in it. Did they bleep that out for the broadcast?

David Gemmell Legend Award 2013 long lists

Long lists for the Legend, the Morningstar and the Ravenheart at the other end of the link.

f/m to come later.

Any guesses what "grock" is supposed to be?

That's the genre cdex stuck Slean's The Baroness into.

Oh, romance subplots

Where would you be without the sunk cost fallacy?

The Dragon's Tales on recent revelations about Mars

First Crazy Thought of the Day: Martian Life Extinguished by Utopia and Hellas Impacts

Interesting tid bits

Update on the Recent Unpleasantness

It includes this interesting section: ( Read more... )

Nameless: still hard of hearing

She was sprawled out in the door to the bedroom when I got up and didn't wake up until I petted her. She even gave a big stretch before she realized I was the one petting her.

I wonder if this will work out so she can tolerate being near me?

Apparently the answer to "what is the correct response to having et too much"

Was not "have dessert."

Mick Aston (1946 - 2013)

Mick Aston, a former resident academic on Channel 4's Time Team, has died at the age of 66.

News from Calgary

Alberta Premier Alison Redford has warned the provincial cleanup effort could take up to 10 years.

Richard Matheson (1926-2013)

Tor.com is saddened and staggered to learn of the passing of Richard Matheson, the esteemed author of I am Legend, The Shrinking Man, What Dreams May Come, Hell House, the script for the Steven Spielberg film Duel, and many Twilight Zone scripts, among many more works.