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Slot 1: “Le Cygne: The Oracle’s Light”
Slot 2: “Nine Lives in Amber”
Slot 3: GM (Nine Losers in Akron)
Slot 4: “Ill Met in Amber” by Chris (Kit) Kindred
Slot 5: GM (The Mysterious Affair)
Slot 6: “Equalizer”
Slot 7: “Blaze of Glory: The Shadows Attack”

Which Polyhedral Are You?

Warren Ellis talks about the new Doctor Who series here:

http://www.warrenellis.com/index.php?p=433

And yes, he actually seems to like it, which makes me sad that the SciFi channel declined to pick it up for the US. Not that, as Warren points out, it’d actually fit in with the rest of the stuff on SciFi. Which, imo, would have been a good thing.

Quiz: Which Twin Peaks character are you?

Quiz results behind the cut

So, another Boskone attended, another fun time had.

Despite the fact that I actively didn’t like their pick for Guest of Honor (Orson Scott Card, ugh!), and only found three things that I wanted to attend (an excellent lecture by Alastair Reynolds called “Reimagining Space Opera,” a panel moderated by suricattus about food and authors, and a reading by suricattus), I still had a good time thanks to the cool people I was able to hang out with, both in the hotel bar and elsewhere. Thanks for having me along again this year arcaedia!

Books I bought at Boskone (despite the dealers’ room being more lame than usual):

Dogs in the Moonlight by Jay Lake
The Year of Our War by Steph Swainston
Alphabet of Thorne by Patricia McKillip
Sunshine by Robin McKinley
Pandora’s Star by Peter F. Hamilton
Nine Layers of Sky by Liz Williams
City of Pearl by Karen Traviss
1602 by Neil Gaiman (hardcover collection of the Marvel series)

I’m very much looking forward to Boskone 2006, though I haven’t yet decided whether I’ll be stalking Ken MacLeod (next year’s GoH) or Cory Doctorow. 😉

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Priced Out: Live music venues in the Village wobble on their last legs
http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0507,soti,61075,22.html

Why would people agree to pay astronomical rents to live in the new
apartment buildings and high-rises that are popping up all over the
East Village and the Lower East Side? One big selling point is the
neighborhood’s world-class live music clubs–except those same new
buildings and high rents are driving the clubs into extinction. Luna
Lounge and Fez have both announced that they’re shutting down, at
least for the moment, and the future of Tonic and CBGB is in doubt.

Guess we’ll have to see where the NYC live music scene moves now. Brooklyn, perhaps?

Off for a weekend attending Boskone, meaning likely little or no email ’til late Sunday evening.

If I were God over LiveJournal…

Since others seem to be doing it, I thought I’d post my planned ACUS 2005 schedule, now that I’ve had a chance to look over the tentative GM-only game book.

Slot-by-slot