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Learning to Live Through This

 Live Through This is an ambitious project from New York photographer and suicide attempt survivor Dese’Rae L. Stage. Stage has been telling the largely unheard stories of suicide survivors through photography and interviews, making the content available and accessible to anyone on a website devoted to the project. Stage is in the final two weeks… [Read more…]

Dead Heroes

Hunter S. Thompson died February 20th, 2005. He was a journalist. A writer. A husband, for a time. A father. A man who stayed a close friend to his former wife. A man who lived and loved with his second wife. He was fierce and weird, talented, called gonzo by Bill Cardoso, embracer of the… [Read more…]

Lockdown

I have a story I tell people, from when I was a news intern. I generally leave out much of the following details when I do so. I always tell it like it’s a funny story. I laugh and grin over dinner with friends, or drinks in the bar, as I tell and retell it.… [Read more…]

NWC 36 Schedule

Norwescon 36 is March  28-31, 2013 in beautiful Seattle, Washington. This is my panel schedule this year, but you can always catch up to me later if you miss one. Thursday Future Horror    5:00pm-6:00pm Cascade 6 Do sentient spaceships, haunted cell phones, cyborg serial killers and web sites of the damned make for effective horror?… [Read more…]

Lily Goes To NASA: Part II

Afternoon, California, January 25th After our morning of cramming science into our heads, we boarded the charter bus to return to the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility (DAOF) in Palmdale, the building we’d seen briefly during check-in that morning. NASA’s Science Mission Directorate is the primary occupant of the facility, and several NASA aircraft are based… [Read more…]

Lily Goes To NASA: Part I

I finally had a little time to catch my breath before filling folks in on how last month’s NASA Social at Dryden went. For folks just tuning in, and asking “So, what’s a NASA Social?” I’m going to quote direct from the source. NASA Social is a program to provide opportunities for NASA’s social media… [Read more…]

News in Brief

It’s been a pretty crazy new year so far. In addition to trying to keep up with finishing out the last bits of 2012′s projects, there’s been: celebrating my birthday a short story acceptance job leads housing leads family genealogy research renewed for my weekly column continuing an 8 week column approved for social media… [Read more…]

#1reasonwhy

I did, while very intoxicated, attempt to elucidate my thoughts and feelings on this week last night. More than one thousand words later, I was no closer to what felt like an adequate response. I have been asked about how I feel, about why I shared my experiences, I have been trolled repeatedly, and I… [Read more…]

For Every Victim

I backed Homicide Watch because I don’t want the world to be without it. I don’t want DC to be without it. It’s been three weeks since Homicide Watch was shuttered, because there wasn’t any money to keep going. Homicide Watch is a one of a kind. They’ve spent two years of hard, dedicated work… [Read more…]

The Interview Algorithm

My lovely friend Morgan/my boss at Booklife Now is new to interviewing folks. So over the weekend wrote out the essentials of getting the ball rolling on an interview request. She called it an interview algorithm, and since I’m flat out awful at tasting that word, I’ll take her declaration on faith. This is a… [Read more…]