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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“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 Not Being Scammed
I might as well bring this up now: I have another rule: Yog’s Law: Money Flows Toward the Author. While information wants to be free, entertainment wants to be well-paid, and we’re part of the entertainment industry. “Show business” has two words: “show” and “business.” Despite some hilarious efforts by notorious scammers and bottom-feeding vanityContinue reading “On Not Being Scammed”
On Plots
What is a plot? It’s a sequence of events, with one special property. A sequence of events is this happened, then that happened. A plot is this happened, then that happened, because. Some say there are three basic plot engines: Person against nature Person against person Person against God “Person against person” includes as aContinue reading “On Plots”
JAMES D. MACDONALD 