Yes, it turns out the US is a very dangerous place for me. It tried to poison me! Okay, maybe it was my own fault. I knew I had a bigger problem than just a sore throat. When it first hit it really knocked me out. I’m usually the ignore-the-illness-and-work-harder type, but I ached all…
Category: bizarre
Re-Imagining the Olympics
The 2012 Olympics are over. If you weren’t in the UK you might not have been aware of just how transformative these two weeks were. That I’m even talking about it is evidence enough. Like many of my geek and writer friends I’ve often found myself in the position of fighting against the popular attention…
Readercon: Of Tin Foil Hats
Among the events today was the Tin Foil Hat event, where strange theories were floated as possibilities. As you can see, one intrepid panelist actually produced a tin foil hat, too. It was a “you had to be there” kind of event. Many theories both bizarre and plausible were floated. My own consisted of the…
K. A. Laity 