Blog &Writing Eugene Fischer | 21 Mar 2009
My full rant about how terrible the last episode of Battlestar Galactica was (including the stupid implications of Hera being mitochondrial Eve) will have to wait, as I am out working on my short story for the Genomics Forum competition (and again posting from my phone). In the meantime, I agree with pretty much all [...]
Television Eugene Fischer | 20 Mar 2009
Oh my gods, that was such a train wreck. What the frak was Ron Moore thinking? Decree: there is no last hour of Battlestar Galactica, in much the same way that there is only one season of Heroes. Battlestar Galactica ends with the ship getting destroyed at the colony when they attempt to jump away. [...]
YA Eugene Fischer | 20 Mar 2009
As I have suspended my ban on buying books for Love Your Indie Month, I went ahead and picked up a copy of James Kennedy’s The Order of Odd Fish, which first came to my attention after I read a highly entertaining short story on his blog. Last night I read 130 pages of it–about [...]
Health &Tech Eugene Fischer | 19 Mar 2009
Check out the “signs and symptoms ” section of the Wikipedia article on Cushing’s syndrome. I am experiencing most of these; not because I actually have Cushing’s, but because I have Crohn’s disease, which is currently being treated with prednisone, which ups my cortisol levels–functionally giving me an artificial case of Cushing’s. One of the [...]
Blog Eugene Fischer | 18 Mar 2009
It was an accident at first, and then a week and a half of having this website had gone by and I noticed I had not missed a day yet. So I started doing it on purpose. And I even came up with a reason why blogging something every day was a good thing: just [...]
Clarion Eugene Fischer | 17 Mar 2009
Last night Neil Gaiman was on The Colbert Report discussing The Graveyard Book: The Colbert ReportMon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Neil Gaiman And tonight on the BBC World Service, Geoff Ryman was brought on to discuss the propriety of the United Nations holding a panel discussion about Battlestar Galactica. I haven’t been able to [...]
Clarion &SF/F Eugene Fischer | 16 Mar 2009
I urge you to find a way to get your hands on the current issue of Interzone, which contains the story “Home Again,” by Paul M. Berger. Paul was my Clarion classmate and roomie, and I got to read the first draft of this story at the workshop. I don’t actually know of anyplace in [...]
Books Eugene Fischer | 15 Mar 2009
So I’ve broken my rule about not buying any more books until I’ve read some (intentionally hazy) fraction of the unread books I already own. But I have done so for a good reason. Joe Hill, author of 20th Centurey Ghosts and Heart-Shaped Box, has taken a look at the bookselling landscape and decided that [...]
Uncategorized Eugene Fischer | 14 Mar 2009
A personal journal entry from several months ago begins with a quotation by Primo Levi, which I encountered in an essay by Ursula LeGuin. “It is the duty of the righteous man to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end.” I wrote several paragraphs [...]
Administrivia Eugene Fischer | 13 Mar 2009
I am in my hotel in Houston, where tonight I will see Jonathan Coulton in concert at the House of Blues. Surprisingly, my hotel does not seem to have wireless internet. But this affords me a good opportunity to test the iPhone WordPress client. If this works like it is supposed to, I should momentarily [...]
