Michael Livingston

Dec

31

The New Car: Kia Rondo

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I didn’t really expect to be spending money on a new car this break. Sure, the old Dodge Stratus was a rusting, unreliable pain in the butt that was no fun to drive, but it was, for the moment at least, a working pain. And money, as they say, doesn’t grow on trees. So the […]

Dec

23

Review of “The Angel of Marye’s Heights”

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Sherwood Smith, over at The Fix, just posted a favorable review of Paradox 11. Among the pleasantries are some kind words about my own story in the issue, “The Angel of Marye’s Heights.” My favorite snippet:
With brutally vivid detail, the reader is made part of that terrible push up the half-mile hill into the […]

Dec

21

Playing with the iPod

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I’m still not sure how I feel about this, but this post is written on an iPod touch. I think that means I’ve joined the new world. Reluctantly, yes, but joined nonetheless.
I remain astonished by this. Seriously. I mean, it’s really quite amazing. I can’t type nearly as fast as I can on one of […]

Dec

20

The New iPod Touch

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‘Tis been a busy few days, as much significant academic business has been transpiring. I can say little about it just now, I’m afraid, but I’ll post about it as soon as I can.
Among such professional matters, however, I’ve managed to take the time to — gulp! — buy an iPod. Oh, it […]

Dec

16

Best. Instructions. Ever.

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I’ve been trying to get caught up on everything that the semester forced me to set aside. I spent a day prepping and sending out a sizable batch of short stories — much overdue. I got some last-minute shopping done. Bought the new Eagles double album (listening for the first time now). And I just […]

Dec

13

Giants and the Black Death

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In the course of doing some research on giants today, I started looking into what’s known about the Wilmington Long Man, a 235-foot figure on the side of a hill in the South Downs. (A good discussion, from which many of the following facts and figures are taken, is here.) This mysterious figure, […]

Dec

11

Stede Bonnet, Gentleman Pirate

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Last March I hastily scribed a short story about Stede Bonnet, the so-called gentleman pirate, for Shimmer’s special pirate issue. The issue’s guest editor, John Joseph Adams, aka JJA to F&SF submitters, summarily rejected it — alas — but I can take some solace in observing what a good collection of tales he did […]

Dec

10

Grading Done

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Yes.
Done.
And just in time, too. I seem to have contracted a wee cold.

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