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Spice, Sitting, 5/4/25

Although Spice sits at my desk daily and likes to sleep by my pillow, she is actually pretty reluctant to lay on me while I’m sitting… until, apparently, I got the Eames chair. Now when I’m sitting in the chair, she’ll come up and plot down on my chest, especially if I have the computer open. Why now? Why this chair? The walnut-sized brain of a cat will be forever a mystery. At least she’s cute…

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RIP, Jill Sobule

She was a friend and I've just learned about this and I'm entirely heartbroken.variety.com/2025/music/n…— John Scalzi (@scalzi.com) 2025-05-02T00:10:42.737Z We met on the JoCo Cruise, where we were both performers, and where we declared our mutual fandom. She told me she wanted to make a musical out of Redshirts, which was deeply flattering. She did a one-person musical of her own instead, “Fuck…

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What I Got Krissy For Her Birthday

So here’s a fun fact that you probably don’t know about Krissy: She likes to go camping. She and her family used to do a lot of it when she was younger, and she will still do it occasionally with friends. But she doesn’t get to do as much of it as she likes to, because it’s hard to carve out the time, and also she wants to be able to camp with Charlie, our dog, and it’s difficult to find a place…

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Take a Seat at the Stillwater Prairie Preserve

A couple miles from our house is the Stillwater Prairie Preserve, a 300+ acre park that represents what this area would look like in a (more or less) pristine state of affairs. Krissy and Charlie go there just about every day to walk its trails and get exercise and enjoy being in nature. So it would make sense that we would donate (via the Scalzi Family Foundation) to support the…

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The Big Idea: Renan Bernardo

Take a deep breath. Now exhale. Now find out why, in Renan Bernardo’s book Disgraced Return of the Kap’s Needle, doing that is not as simple as it sounds — and what that means for the people in the story. RENAN BERNARDO: What if a profit-driven expedition to settle on an distant planet failed so miserably that now the crew has lost all motivation to come back to Earth? That is the Big Idea…

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New Music: "What We See At Night"

It’s been a tick since I composed a new piece of music, so here’s a new one for you: A drones-and-drums-heavy slice of feedback-laden noise done in 11/16 time, because why the hell not. I suspect this might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but for the three of you out there who like this kind of thing: Enjoy. — JS

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Moon Shot

I noted last week that I had gotten a new camera and unfortunately I have been traveling so much in the last several days that I haven’t really gotten a chance to put it through its paces. However, a few days ago, just before I headed out on yet another trip, I did manage to grab this shot of the moon with it. It is… pretty great! And also one of the main reasons I picked up this particular…

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Oh, Look, the Full Love Death + Robots Volume 4 Trailer

I can now tell you that I have two episodes in this volume. If you can’t guess which ones they are, this article in Variety will tell you. It comes out May 15. This is gonna be fun.

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View From a Hotel Window, 4/23/25: Los Angeles

Inspiring, is it not. Once again I’m here for the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, and also to have meetings about projects and stuff. I do intend to go places with slightly better views. — JS

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The Big Idea: Heather Tracy

Any author can tell you that events in their own life can have an impact on their fiction. As we learn in Heather Tracy’s Big Idea for Only a Chapter, sometimes those events have a bigger impact than we might have expected. HEATHER TRACY: When I began writing what would become Only a Chapter back in 2015, the working title I had then was “Faceless Man.” I knew I wasn’t going to call the book…

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Today's Adventures in Dentistry

1. Whoops2. It's fine, I'm fine, I'm going to the dentist literally right now to have it fixed3. When you lose a crown and put it under your pillow, the tooth fairy does not leave you so much as a nickel, in what world is this even remotely fair— John Scalzi (@scalzi.com) 2025-04-22T12:26:48.222Z Ever have that dream where your teeth fall out? Well, it’s not a dream in my case; last night, while…

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The World's Hectic. Have a Dog Picture.

See, isn’t that nice? Lowers your blood pressure all the way down, it does. We could all use that right about now. — JS

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Sunset 4/20/25

I got a new camera (a Nikon Coolpix P1100, review coming at some point), and one of the things it does really well is zoom in real close to far away objects. I tried it on the sunset today, and, yup, it got in real close. Enjoy. — JS

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Easter Flowers

At the local nature preserve. No need to pick them! I brought them to you anyway! And happy Easter, if it is a holiday you celebrate. And if you do celebrate it, I hope you endeavor to live your life in a manner worthy of the redemption that Christ offered you. — JS

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The New Chair Arrives

There are not many physical things I actively covet in this world, but for a while now I’ve wanted a classic Eames chair. I couldn’t bring myself to purchase one because they are, in two words, stupidly expensive. There are less costly knock-off versions, of course, but in this particular case the knock-offs don’t do the psychic trick for me. If I was going to ever make the splurge, I wanted the…

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Because Apparently I'm In a Musical Mood Today: A Cover of "Desperado"

“Two covers in one day? Scalzi must really be at loose ends without his spouse!” Well, yes. Yes, I am. Mopey and lonely and vulnerable to maudlin songs about depressed cowboys, apparently. Anyway. Here’s the Eagles. Enjoy. — Js

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Happy Birthday Krissy

She’s the best person I know and I love her the most, but I think you all know that. I’m happy she’s in my life and I get to be in hers. And it’s her birthday! May she have many more, and may I be here to see them. — JS