They say that everybody's a little Irish on St. Patrick's Day, but since I'm a little Irish all year long, I find the holiday to be a bit of a bother. Maybe it's because I'm colorblind, and have trouble telling green apart from certain oranges, reds, and browns. Or maybe it's the ridiculous conceit of [...]
The one thing I love more than a good beer recommendation? A good beer recommendation I can actually find. So when Constance Ann Fitzgerald, author of Trashland A Go-Go and fellow Petaluma resident, told me that I not only needed to try Rogue Brewing's Hazelnut Brown Nectar, but that they had it at Wilibees Market, [...]
If you enjoy my Adult Beverage posts, you're sure to get a kick out of this. The fine folks at Bizarro Central, your ultimate resource to the Bizarro fiction genre, recently asked me to contribute weekly beer reviews and book pairings to their website. The result, Thirsty Thursday kicked off earlier today with my review [...]
I was invited to be a presenter at this year's San Francisco Writers Conference, something which still boggles my mind a little bit (but more on that in a sec). So yesterday afternoon, I drove down to the InterContinental Mark Hopkins Hotel, at the top of Knob Hill, signed in, and participated in a standing-room-only [...]
"Got a big white X / On the top of his car / Rex keeps his speed / In a little glass jar..."--Big Black, "Racer X"I am unabashedly a fan of Speed Racer (Mach GoGoGo), the late 1960s anime series focusing on the adventures of race-car driver Gō Mifune (AKA Speed Racer, voiced in English [...]
Another crazy week. Not only did my anthology, The Book of Cthulhu, make it onto the Locus Magazine 2011 Recommended Reading List (Anthologies, Reprint), but it also got onto the 42nd Annual Locus Awards Ballot (Best Anthology). Best part: You don't have to be a Locus subscriber to vote (though subscriber votes count double), all [...]
Another week gives way to another weekend. And what a busy week it was. I seem to be coordinating and correcting a ton of projects right now, having just wrapped up Jonathan Strahan's The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Six, and working concurrently on Ellen Datlow's The Best Horror of the [...]
Randy and Jan invited us over for enchiladas tonight, so earlier today, when I stopped by Petaluma Market for a few necessities, I picked up a little something that caught my eye: The Vixen, a chocolate chili bock from Samuel Adams. An "Ale brewed with cinnamon and with spices and cocoa nibs added," The Vixen [...]
Third time's the charm. I have the best intentions in writing these reviews. I believe that brewing is one of the hallmarks of civilization, and that by sharing my thoughts on quality adult beverages with you, I somehow enrich your lives. Thing is, some of these adult beverages can be a bit strong. And I've [...]