Today let’s look at the 1950 Bugs Bunny cartoon “Hillbilly Hare” (widely available on DVD). Leaving aside the very 1950s attitudes toward the South and toward rural poverty, this cartoon is best known for its long Square Dance sequence. It has also been extensively censored for its violence. But what do we notice? Bugs BunnyContinue reading “The Supernatural Found”
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Weather
This coming week, 2-8 March 2014, is National Severe Weather Preparedness Week. 2013 was a pretty bad year for weather events: In 2013, there were 7 weather and climate disaster events with losses exceeding $1 billion each across the United States. These events included five severe weather and tornado events, a major flood event, andContinue reading “Weather”
“Like a Wasp to the Tongue” in Asimov’s April/May Issue
Originally posted on FRAN WILDE:
Hooray! The April/May double issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction is on its way! My story, “Like a Wasp to the Tongue,” joins tales by my delightful Philly neighbor Michael Swanwick, the wonderful James Patrick Kelly, M. Bernardo , William Preston, Robert Reed (I loved his story “Katabasis” in Fantasy & Science Fiction…
On Old Things
You know how it says in the Bible “Of the making of books there is no end,” and “there is nothing new under the sun”? It’s true. The furniture and fashions differ, but as I’ve said before (and will say again) “The oldest engines haul the heaviest freight.” While on my way to and fromContinue reading “On Old Things”
On Marketing
Marketing is more or less telling people that you’ve written something and maybe they’d like to read it. At a commercial publisher about half the staff will be in marketing. (Any time you hear someone say that commercial publishers don’t (or no longer) market their books and authors, you can discount anything else that personContinue reading “On Marketing”
JAMES D. MACDONALD 