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Looper: A Very Short Review

Posted on October 30, 2012 by

By Brenda Clough I am in the throes of writing a time-travel novel, so when I saw that Looper was out I immediately hauled the other members of the family off with me to see it.  Even though I am … Continue reading →


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The Old Witch and the Children

Posted on May 25, 2011 by

By Sherwood Smith As I get older (in a few days I’ll turn sixty) I look back over those decades. Before I retired from teaching, I was asked to emergency substitute in first grade the first week of school, and … Continue reading →


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Readers, Writers, and Blogs

Posted on January 30, 2011 by

The illo is a Hogarth print depicting the print culture of the eighteenth century, which is many ways reminds me of the blogoverse; people saw these prints put up in windows, commenting on the day’s news. The prints went up … Continue reading →


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Kids and a Sense of History

Posted on March 14, 2010 by

I remember my own introduction to US History half a century ago: boring. Behavior and grunt memorization were the keynotes of history, with side-trips for making graphs and tables. Always, of course, with the US of A as Number One … Continue reading →


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The Writing Life: Alien Eyes (Exercises in Creativity)

Posted on February 24, 2010 by

Last time, I promised some exercises in creativity. I’ve got several that I use to spark ideas and what makes them extra cool is that they don’t take much time or money.  You can do any one of them in … Continue reading →


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Hollywood: Too Original For Me!

Posted on January 26, 2010 by

What if Avatar is the most original movie that came out recently, and will come out this year? I could be right, and that could be the most epic fail of all. Even if the critics are this retarded, eventually audiences are going to say, “Wait a minute – didn’t I see that before, and wasn’t it better – the first time?” Continue reading →


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An Anime Review — Basilisk

Posted on September 25, 2009 by

This is a ninja clan war flick with Romeo and Juliet smack in the middle of a centuries-old feud between the Capulets and the Montagues – er, actually between the Iga Clan and the Kouga Clan.


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When Life Calms Down

Posted on July 20, 2009 by

Any number of people have told me that they intend to start writing that book just as soon as life calms down and they get some time, or that they just need to get past this divorce/new job/old job/kid problem/insert-disaster-here. … Continue reading →


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The WisCon Chronicles – WisCon 33

Posted on June 26, 2009 by

Every year Aqueduct Press produces a volume covering the WisCon for the previous year. Timmi Duchamp has asked me to edit the 4th WisCon Chronicles, covering WisCon 33. It’s an honour, if also a very large responsibility! I will be blogging … Continue reading →


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Ursula K. Le Guin reviews Enchanted Hunters by Maria Tatar

Posted on June 12, 2009 by

BVC Founding Member Ursula K. Le Guin reviews Enchanted Hunters, by Maria Tatar, for the Los Angeles Times: “…That such books can vastly enrich a child’s mind and heart, we all agree. And Tatar, less theory-ridden than Bettelheim, is willing … Continue reading →


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