http://valingstoneways.com/blog Ramblings about Politics, Economics, and Writing Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:39:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ...are going to end up in Republican Hell when they die, because that's what they're vote will effectively be. Let them play with the 2000 Naderites. http://valingstoneways.com/blog/2010/03/04/any-progressives-in-congress-who-dont-vote-for-the-health-care-bill/ An ecologically sound version of the helicopter toilet. A great idea. http://valingstoneways.com/blog/2010/03/02/introducing-the-peepoo/ Woke to lights fizzing in the house at 5:30 this morning, even though they were off. Outside the neighbors' outside lights were flickering, and the streetlights too. (This is a brownstone Brooklyn neighborhood.) I'm going through the fuse box trying to figure out what's going on (and ... http://valingstoneways.com/blog/2010/03/01/blackout-on-sackett-street/ I loved this movie. A wonderful story, beautifully told. The writer in me was happy, the story lover in me was happy, even the movie lover in me was happy. I don't know why it is, but the occasional Pixar movie these days seems to do a ... http://valingstoneways.com/blog/2010/02/27/sam-who-likes-some-things-up/ First she took my shoe downstairs, and then she took another shoe. Normally this is a sign of great excitement, though I did have my suspicions. It was only when she stood up on her hind legs to grab her coat out of my hands and take it ... http://valingstoneways.com/blog/2010/02/26/how-i-knew-nellie-the-wonder-dog-didnt-want-to-go-for-a-walk-today-in-15-inches-of-snow/ Really. I shall be introducing the incredible, spectacular, momentous, staggering, and just plain jaw-breakingly awesome film, It Came From Outer Space, on Friday, March 5th, at the Rubin Museum of Art in NYC. Come one, come all, for 50s American SF at its most 50s and American. ... http://valingstoneways.com/blog/2010/02/24/odd-things-midlist-writers-end-up-doing-introducing-movies-at-the-rubin-museum-of-art/ This actually fell right in the middle between Likes-Some-Things and Likes-Nothing. Being such a positive guy, I decided to give Stew the benefit of the doubt. After all, I love his discs. The last four songs of the show were what I really liked. Stew is a great ... http://valingstoneways.com/blog/2010/02/23/sam-who-likes-some-things-stew-at-st-anns-warehouse/ An op-ed piece in the NYTimes today about why record companies are a necessary evil. As are publishing companies. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/20/opinion/20kulash.html?ref=opinion http://valingstoneways.com/blog/2010/02/20/this-applies-to-book-publishing-every-bit-as-much-as-it-does-to-music/ Because she's lazy and fast, just like me. Or at least like I used to be. http://valingstoneways.com/blog/2010/02/18/why-i-love-our-whippet/ Mostly I just ate myself to death. Chinese for lunch Saturday, Afghani food for dinner that night, came back to Brooklyn with good friends Melinda Snodgrass and Ian Tregillis (make sure to buy their books when they come out in April from Tor!) for Italian dinner, then dim sum ... http://valingstoneways.com/blog/2010/02/16/boskone/