The Pot of Sleep has been opened,
And it must claim one, alone, or everyone awake.
we all have them now—emotion regulators
Dragon fire on white bodies is sad. Dragon fire on not-Muslim bodies is cheered on the screen. We ache when the scimitar prows of not-Muslim ships cleave through a white human captain’s ship. But bombs sent by white admirals into not-Muslim countries are the only way to make these barbarians hear reason (and maybe also a chance to prove how nice we are, we of the civilized world). Don’t listen to the not-Muslim’s testimony of pain. He is probably lying.
The first time I watch Everything Everywhere All At Once in theaters, I am struck by the way Ke Huy Quan and Michelle Yeoh are presented—not as the generic smooth-faced Hollywood types but decidedly middle-aged, grey hairs and pores and all. He looks like my former piano teacher, I think. She could be my parents’ church friend. And yet: the fanny pack swung with stunning agility. The bullet stopped mid-flight, the daughter pulled back from the brink. This is how I fight. No shame in having survived, here—in being the star of many lives, each branched out from a decision made in childhood or as a young adult: to go or to stay; to sing or chase scientific glory; to please the demanding parent, or break down, or break away.
Hallo friends, and welcome to Stories from the Radio, where we listen to old radio shows and laugh at them for being so old. Today, we are going to listen to something by the golden boy of old time radio, Arch Oboler. He is perhaps best known for his horror series ‘Lights Out’ but dude was pretty prolific in his time. He dabbled in radio, television, fiction, and all those other neat things. Today’s show is called Revolt of the Worms, which is an excellent name for anything. I’m hoping for some nice, golden-age-of-sci-fi-radio type story, but as we have
In the first part of episode 5 of Writing While Disabled, Kristy Anne Cox and Kate Johnston discuss some adjustments they'd like to see at science fiction conventions that would help create a more inclusive experience for all science fiction writers and fans.
