by Melinda Snodgrass | Oct 6, 2010 | Blog
I just realized that the Stewart rally is the weekend _after_ Mile High Con. If I’d figured this out sooner I might have been able to work it in. As it is, I don’t think I can add the trip into my agenda. I’m going to be in Minneapolis the weekend of Nov. 12th through the 14th, then I leave for L.A. on the 16th to give a lecture at USC. I just don’t think I’ve got the time or the energy to go from Colorado to Washington D.C. to Minneapolis, home...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Oct 5, 2010 | Blog
Now that I’m back I’m cleaning off my desk, and dealing with little chores that needed to be done. Like ordering descaling and cleaning tablets for my Jura Capresso coffee machine. I’m talking to the nice lady and she’s checking on the computer to see if I’m in the system and she asks — “Gregory Snodgrass?” I say no. “Melodie Snodgrass?” No. She then names two more people. I started laughing and...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Oct 2, 2010 | Blog
First, I’m home. Tired, happy to see my cats and dog and horse. Dragged out to the market since there was no food in the house. Made feed packets for Vento. I’ll be downloading photos sometime today, and will start writing up the trip. Second, I have to get back to noticing the state of our country, and wishing like hell I could attend the March to Restore Sanity. I’m already committed to MileHigh Con that same weekend, but I will be in...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Sep 13, 2010 | Blog
I have been trying to get onto Facebook every time I have a chance at internet service. But it won’t let me on because it doesn’t recognize my computer ie the IPad. It sends me to Roadblock where it throws up a bunch of pictures of the nearly six hundred friends that I have and asks me to identify them correctly. I have a ton of friend requests, and they’re going to think I’m an asshole for not responding. I hope this goes through, and maybe all those people waiting...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Aug 27, 2010 | Blog
Courtesy of Connie Willis. This skewers Palin, the Park 51 crazies and the anti-intellectualism of the tea party. Made me laugh on a stressful Friday morning as I try to get down to Albuquerque for Bubonicon, and leave for Australia on Monday.
by Melinda Snodgrass | Aug 23, 2010 | Blog
I’ve been comparing notes with writer buddies, and I’ve begun to wonder if the only way to have real success as a writer today is to be a major on-line presence? Does high visibility ensure nominations for awards? Increased sales? Better reviews? If so I guess an early retirement is in my future. I would rather the time I spend in front of a computer be spent writing. It’s also very hard for me to talk incessantly about what _I’m_...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Aug 19, 2010 | Blog
Latest Pew poll. 20% of Americans think President Obama is a Muslim. Are we really this stupid or does that 20% only get their news from Fox, and have never read a paper or a book in their lives? Not that it matters if he were a Muslim, but it’s just the rank stupidity of the whole thing that leaves me breathless, depressed and despairing. We have Palin out there every day celebrating being anti-intellectual, and the Right warning against “elites” (I guess that...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Aug 14, 2010 | Blog
Just got home from watching THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE, same Swedish cast from the first film, but a different (and inferior) director, and the script was not good. It was two and half hours of plodding plot points, and unimaginative direction. The second book by Larsson is complicated and convoluted, relies a great deal on coincidence. It would have worked really well as a multi-episode series a la HBO or Showtime. Instead this film is long, it’s dull, and if you...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Aug 11, 2010 | Blog
So, did you know that physics is now a liberal plot? Check out the latest lunacy from the right. Okay, I get that they’re uncomfortable with evolution because then they would have to accept that we’re just another animal that got lucky in the evolutionary lottery, and maybe not all that special with a special relationship with some kind of floating daddy in the sky. And I can see where the whole climate change thing is complex, and it didn’t help that the Population...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Aug 9, 2010 | Blog
Finally completed the spec TV pilot based on the film THE OBJECTIVE. Finished it yesterday. Ian took a look, and has some notes for me. I make those, and send it off to the producer. Who knows, maybe somebody will want to move forward with this. For myself I went back to work on the urban fantasy and finished another chapter today. I’m going to read on a friend’s book for awhile, then work a bit on the third EDGE book, and then play some Dragon...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Aug 8, 2010 | Blog
After writing until I was cross-eyed last night I took a break to play my favorite obsession — Dragon Age. As it was booting up there was a little tag about how the last Darkspawn blight had occurred 400 years before with the implication being that the Grey Wardens had fought off that blight with similar weaponry (and a few griffons). Which made me wonder — if it had been 400 years why weren’t we fighting the Darkspawn with at least flintlocks? Which led to the...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Aug 8, 2010 | Blog
Friends of mine posted this link on Facebook. It made my evening, but now I have to have one of these balls for Vento. Anybody know where I can order one?
by Melinda Snodgrass | Aug 6, 2010 | Blog
Why is it that hate and fear energize people so much better than hope and optimism? There was a reason I had the monsters in the Edge universe feed on negative emotions. They do seem to be so much stronger than positive ones. *sigh*
by Melinda Snodgrass | Aug 5, 2010 | Blog
Here is Judge Walker’s wonderful concluding statement. “fundamental rights may not be submitted to [a] vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections.”
by Melinda Snodgrass | Aug 4, 2010 | Blog
Prop 8 the pernicious act that barred gays and lesbians from marrying has been declared UNCONSTITUTIONAL by the federal court.
