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October 07, 2009 10:42 PM EDT --
Around 9:35 p.m., on Wednesday, 27 August 2008, Security Guards Scott Calais and Rudy Madris were watching the monitors at the CCTV control center in the Sunnyvale facility of Northrop Grumman when . . .
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August 23, 2009 05:21 PM EDT --
The thing I like best about the World Science Fiction Convention (aka Worldcon) is that it gives me a reason to travel to places I probably wouldn’t choose on my own. In 2007, the honor (or sentence, . . .
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May 20, 2009 04:19 PM EDT --
Massachusetts is small state, but has some of the oldest European-originated "colonies" in the USA. During the course of the past 400 years, it has seen some of the most intense traumas recorded in American . . .
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April 08, 2009 10:12 PM EDT --
UPDATE 14 August 2009: The awards were announced in Montréal on August 9. The nominees in boldface indicate the winners.
Anticipation, the 67 th World Science . . .
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March 18, 2009 07:33 PM EDT --
Although still members of Bay Area Ghost Hunters , Anthony & Lydia need to curtail activities for personal reasons at the moment, so I'd like to get an idea of how many other connections BAGH . . .
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February 05, 2009 10:09 PM EST --
I am currently planning to attend Anticipation , the 67th World Science Fiction Convention (aka Worldcon 67), in Montreal this August. While I do plan on spending most of my time at the convention, . . .
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January 19, 2009 03:19 PM EST --
Those interested in being eligible to nominate the 2009 Hugo Awards, the most prestigious awards in the speculative fiction community, must be either a supporting or full-attending member of the 66th . . .
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December 21, 2008 06:37 PM EST --
In the 1850s, people were crawling all over the Sierra Mountains like ants on a piece of wet hard candy. Their goal was gold. Once it was found at Sutter's Mill near Sacramento, people from all over the . . .
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October 14, 2008 03:57 PM EDT --
Under threat of the MeetUp group, Bay Area Ghost Hunters, being dissolved after losing its second organizer that I'm aware of, I decided to take a shot at managing it. With 227 members already . . .
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September 23, 2008 07:08 PM EDT --
Here's some email humor I thought was worth sharing....
When I got home last night, my wife demanded that I take her someplace expensive. So, I took her to a . . .
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August 05, 2008 03:30 AM EDT --
This actually warrants a longer, more thoughtful essay, but since I'm flying to Denver tomorrow morning and this is timely, I'm going to make it short. As I pack for my trip, I have been watching . . .
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July 19, 2008 04:01 PM EDT --
An agent I had met at Windycon 34 left the agency he was with, so I googled him and ran across a website that looks like a very helpful resource for writers. It's called LitMatch and does . . .
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July 11, 2008 05:31 PM EDT --
The Bullock Hotel originally opened in 1895 on the site where Seth Bullock and Sol Star located their hardware store in Deadwood, South Dakota, in 1876. After a fire swept through the business . . .
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July 04, 2008 04:02 PM EDT --
I just received the following little trivia test via email and had fun taking the challenge. Other baby boomers might enjoy it. I got 19 out of the 20. Scary.
Have Fun (but no peeking . . .
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June 07, 2008 03:34 PM EDT --
Quite a few books are published on true regional ghost stories in this country and throughout the world. For anyone looking for books on the subject, the best place to find them is usually the local interest . . .
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April 27, 2008 02:08 PM EDT --
I notice there is a lot of interest on Gather in fiction writers workshops. Having participated in fiction critique groups on and off for about 25 years and coordinated them for nine . . .
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April 05, 2008 08:20 PM EDT --
What is it about loofahs and these wads of cheesecloth used as sponges for the human body? On my last birthday, a friend gave me a tube of Bath & Body Works pink cherry blossom body wash. . . .
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March 30, 2008 07:04 PM EDT --
A couple of my past entrants at Worldcon writers workshops have brought to my attention that Denvention 3—as did Noreascon 4 before it—has no intention of organizing a writers workshop in . . .
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March 30, 2008 04:58 PM EDT --
UPDATE: The awards were presented 9 August 2008 in Denver. The names in boldface are the winners.
Denvention 3 , the 66th World Science Fiction Convention, announced last weekend the . . .
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March 28, 2008 11:51 PM EDT --
I would like kick off my new group, NorCal Ghost Stories, with my reasons for starting it. I have been toying with the idea of putting together a book on local ghost folklore and would like to . . .
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