Per aspera

In conclusion, fuck Joe Francis.
-Ezra Klein
To which I would only add:  in the neck, with a sharp stick.

I don’t usually write about work, because that’s my real name up there, and writing about work on the web is a fantastic way to lose your job.  For that reason, I’ll try to be deliberately hazy with any identifying details.  But I must speak, for this may be my last communication with the outside world.
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My purity is based on the fact that nobody offered me much money.
Leonard Cohen
That article comes from a link in the comments to an essay about the evolution of the song “Hallelujah.”
…I should add that all of this comes via a Sidelight on Making Light.

Aw, man.  Gary Gygax died.
 
I bought the D & D basic set when I was, like, eight, I think.  I didn’t have anyone to play it with until I got a little older and a) thus, so did my younger brother, b) some kids around our age moved in up the street.  So I contented myself […]

The full text of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods (a book I personally love) is now online here for you to read, for as long as you can stare at a computer screen.
And while I’m at it, I’ll remind you of the existence of Escape Pod, a weekly podcast of science fiction short stories, read aloud.  […]