West of the Moon

Archive for March, 2009

frames of reference.

For what it’s worth, I don’t actually think that it’s fair to characterize this whole “RaceFail” situation as a fight.  It has aspects that contain fighting, this is undoubtedly true.  But I think that pleas for people to just stop fighting, or dismissals of the whole thing as a crazy internet mess, are missing something [...]

things we say and don’t say.

I first started working with Strange Horizons in the fall of 2000, not long after I moved to California and started graduate school.  Working with the magazine has changed a lot of things in my life, but the change that was the hardest to come to terms with was the change in the way I [...]

well then.

This recent post from Ben made me laugh, partly because it’s a conversation I need to have with myself!  So here’s to turning off the internal editor and actually having some conversation.  A few points of interest, to start it off:

I recently had the pleasure of participating in a discussion on the New York Times’ [...]