Jeff VanderMeer

Here’s a picture–unlikely skin colour aside–of one of history’s most famous community organisers. Please think before you attack people for trying to improve the quality of life.

I’ve never cared for these terms, and I know many folks in fandom have long-since felt these words were reclaimed. Personally, I’ve never been fond of lexical reclamation… too much effort in my opinion needs expending, and in the case of “nerd” and another n-word, the words didn’t belong to the target group in the […]

I’m considering writing a book dealing with massively-multi-user online role-playing games (MMORPGs), but I probably shouldn’t, because I’ve never played one. Talk about hubris–that practically makes me a 19th century anthropologist or a corporate journalist in Iraq’s “Green Zone.” But still, I find the concept fascinating. After all, people immerse themselves in a text/graphic/auditory world […]

It’s true that more people than ever are media savvy. But because of the sheer scope and power of corporate media, especially when in league with government, it’s difficult not to buy into at least some of the propaganda terms that are shot into our brains on a highspeed basis by the second. Here are […]

Journalist and blogger Charley James writes: “‘So Sambo beat the bitch!’ “This is how Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin described Barack Obama’s win over Hillary Clinton to political colleagues in a restaurant a few days after Obama locked up the Democratic Party presidential nomination. “According to Lucille, the waitress serving her table at the […]

Chapter Five: The Fanboys and the Lord of the Inferno Punch him in the throat! Kick him in the nards! –Children’s chant Perhaps a lesser man would be perspiring now, gentle reader, but allow me to assure you that I, delightfully, am not. I’d estimate tonight’s temperature at a more than balmy twenty-six degrees Celsius, […]

CJSR FM-88 www.cjsr.com DOWNLOAD/STREAM THE SHOW Over the years on The Terrordome, I’ve spoken with scores of people about the structural, systemic barriers to the freedom, prosperity and happiness of Afrikans and other groups. Tonight I’d like to address another set of barriers. Even while influenced by the structural and systemic, these barriers are a […]

I spent years looking for this beautiful stuff, and now, boom, here it is. All praise is due to Beware of the Blog.

I mean, really. Click on the photo above to watch a performance of a poem of mine.

Not to tease you, my Yankee comrades, but seriously…. I’ll be the first to admit that Canadians have made a national sport out of self-righteousness regarding Americans. There’s one guy up here on CBC, Rick Mercer, who’s so self-righteous he’s almost a point-singularity. He became famous because of a regular feature he did called “Talking […]