Amusing Eugene Fischer | 31 Mar 2009
My Latest Google Alert
From PubMed: Clinical evaluation of postpartum vaginal mucus reflects uterine bacterial infection and the immune response in cattle. Authors: Williams EJ, Fischer DP, ….
Archive for March, 2009
Blog Eugene Fischer | 30 Mar 2009
Closing Some Tabs
Sally Wister’s Journal — M. T. Anderson recommends this Civil War era journal in an interview, saying it was one of the more interesting things he read doing research for Octavian Nothing. He claims that if Wister had ever turned her hand to fiction, she would have been one of the great American novelists. The [...]
Amusing &Health Eugene Fischer | 27 Mar 2009
Powerful Medicine
Meanwhile, on Twitter…. glorioushubris Confession: When sick earlier this week, I impulse-bought a gold and black polyester robe embroidered with dragons to make me feel better. glorioushubris Further confession: it totally worked. I am a medical genius. mkazoo @glorioushubris Picture? I think such a robe should be documented for posterity. KatWithSword @glorioushubris totally agree w/ [...]
Clarion Eugene Fischer | 27 Mar 2009
Some Thoughts on the Announcement of the Class of Clarion 2009
This picture was taken a year ago yesterday, approximately ten minutes after I found out I was accepted to the Clarion Writers’ Workshop for 2008. That night my girlfriend and I were planning to go out to dinner to celebrate her having finished her qualifying exam. We stopped at my apartment for some reason or [...]
Writing Eugene Fischer | 26 Mar 2009
Revision: Complete
Finished the damn thing at around 5:00 in the morning. Slept, gave it another pass through, then put it in the mail. I’m beat. I have thoughts about the class for Clarion 2009 being announced, but those will have to wait for another time. No more from me, except to say that by far the [...]
Amusing &Basketball &Video Eugene Fischer | 25 Mar 2009
Something No One Who Reads This But Me Will Care About, Yet Is Nonetheless The Best Thing Ever
Manu Ginobili forcing amorous attention on Ian Mahinmi after they are singled out by the Kiss Cam during a stoppage of play: (Were you aware that I am a fanatical supporter of the San Antonio Spurs? I’m a fanatical supporter of the San Antonio Spurs. This is my only sports obsession.)
Health &Writing Eugene Fischer | 25 Mar 2009
Medicating, Sleeping, and Writing
Crohn’s patients, I have come to learn, frequently experience what are known as “flare ups”: sudden spikes in the severity of their symptoms, often requiring agressive medicinal intervention to combat. I had a flare up yesterday, and it had me–during my more lucid moments–reflecting again that “flare up” is a far less evocative phrase for [...]
Amusing &Video Eugene Fischer | 24 Mar 2009
Green Porno
“If I were an earthworm….” “If I were a dragonfly….” Over at the Sundance Channel website, you can watch Isabella Rossellini’s Green Porno videos, in which she dresses up in colorful costumes and enthusiastically and accurately demonstrates the sexual behaviors of various invertebrates. Utterly fabulous.
SF/F Eugene Fischer | 23 Mar 2009
Ted Chiang’s “Exhalation” Available Online
Ted Chiang has a story, “Exhalation,” up for a Hugo award this year. It was originally published in the anthology Eclipse 2, and now Night Shade Books has made it available for download. I just read it, and loved it. It is in structure and tone very similar to one of my very favorite short [...]
Television Eugene Fischer | 22 Mar 2009
Unorganized Battlestar Ranting
Still too focused on my short story to put any mental energy into structuring these thoughts. The decision to give up all technology and live in a state of grace with nature was completely unmotivated and nonsensical. It is impossible to believe that 38,000 people all agreed, after years of struggling to maintain their way [...]
