2002–2004
765 posts
2004 364
December 2004
- Bye Bye 2004
- Ringing the Bell for Christ and the ACLU — Again!
- On Rudeness as a Rhetorical Tool
- Maxims for Believers
- Heh heh heh.
- Maxims for Non-Believers
- Get Hammered
- Whatever Best of 2004
- Athena’s Message.
- Novelist Money
- Six
- Ringing the Bell for Christ and the ACLU
- Winter Wonderland — The Day After
- Winter Wonderland — Or So They Say
- Kristine Scalzi’s Kahlua Cake: The Extended Director’s Edition
- Why I’m an Independent
- The Author’s Heart Thrills And Fears
- Merry Christmas, You Godless Jerk
- Yes Virginia, There Are Christian ACLU Lawyers
- Hateful Christmas Songs — An Audience Participation Entry
- Quick Note of Thanks
- On the Agenda
- John Scalzi’s Utterly Useless Writing Advice
- There We Go.
- Another Appearance
- Cultural Note
- Why Christmas
- Favorite Science Fiction Authors, Circa 1998
- Online Friends
- OMW Store Spotting
- Wallowing in ConFusion
- Google Guessing: An Ego-Surfing Game
- Master of My Own Domain
- So That’s Where They Went
- Hotel Scalzi
- Old Man’s War Availability Recap
- More Book Blah Blah Blah
- The Glorious Appearing — A Contest
- 2:42
- Agent Back Online
- Box O’ Books
- Three Minute Perfect Pop: A Musical Meme
- Oh, Goody.
- Sarah’s Sister
- Writerly Thoughts, 12/7
- “Holiday Specials” is on The Move
- Good Day, and an Ethical Question
- It’s Like Living in the Future
- Leave a Comment
- The Publishers Weekly Review of “Old Man’s War”
- Sleep Deprivation Delirium
- Back Online
- The 10 Least Successful Holiday Specials of All Time
- Notes on the Hiatus
November 2004
- Patience, Young Jedi
- Musical Selection: Thanksgiving Edition
- I Heart Instapundit
- Music Selection 11/22/04
- Music Selection 11/17
- Musical Selection and a Livejournalistic Moment
- Dayton Daily News Article
- Music 11/12/04
- Music Selection 11/11/04
- Book of the Dumb 2 Officially on Sale!
- Music Selection 11/9/04
- Music 11/8/04
- Unholy 80s Mashup
- Advice
- Musical Selection 11/3
- Music to Vote By
- Musical Selection 11/1
October 2004
- Pre-Hiatus Thoughts
- Odd and Ends 10/29/04
- The Scalzi Endorsement: John Kerry For President
- Book of the Dumb 2 Arrives
- Inflicting My Child Upon You, Volume #25,338
- James and Ted’s Excellent Literary Adventures
- Where We’ve Been, What’s Going On Now, What’s Happening Next
- AFK 10/21
- The Five Year Old Vote
- Wimmie-wipos
- Random Crap 10/19
- Doing the Friend Pimp
- Makin’ Chili
- From the “We Knew This, Now We Know It For a Fact” File
- Voting Christian
- Takin’ the Quiz
- Learning Curve = 0
- Like a Newbie, Fragged For the Very First Time
- Courting Disaster
- Ignorance is No Excuse
- Reminder: There is No Such Thing as Private E-Mail
- Random Blatherings, 10/09/04
- The Election and Kerry’s Shoes
- I Got Dem Cozmic Swing State Blues Again, Mama
- Catching Up on the Petblogging
- Look at Me, I’m Working. Yeah.
- Eh.
- The New Look
- A Note From Athena
- Do Me a Favor —
- The Whatever is Alive!
- How It Works, 2004 Edition
- On Being on the Nebula Short Fiction Jury
- In Case You’re Wondering…
September 2004
- How I Know Autumn Has Begun:
- Stupid, Ignorant or Hypocritical Update
- Today’s Fountain of Ridiculous Crap From Antonin Scalia
- I Love the Smell of New Books in the Morning
- Everything I Ever Needed to Know About Blogging I Learned From the New York Times
- Cubism is Alive and Well and Wants a Juice Box
- A Bracing Moment of Market Reality: The Class of January 2005
- Selling Agent
- PayPal Gets Inexplicably Snippy
- Busy, Busy — An Excuse for an Open Thread
- A Terrifying Thought
- Hello, Thunderbird
- Holly Lisle’s Egregious Breach of Online Etiquette
- The Mosh Pit Eats Its Own
- Happiness is a Warm Advance
- Prejudices
- Publisher’s Lunch People
- Roger Ebert
- Reminder: My Whatever
- Bush Voters v. Voight-Kampff
- Talking Contracts
- The Most Amusing Back-Handed Compliment of the Month
- Why A Shitty Deal is a Shitty Deal
- Why A Shitty Deal is a Shitty Deal
- Happy Birthday, Whatever
- Albert and Cthulhu, Sitting In a Tree
- Good News, Bad News
- Testing, Testing.
- Note About Comments
- Books & Stuff, 9/11
- Note of Possible Nonfunctionality
- My Grandfather’s Eulogy
- The Real World Book Deal Descriptions
- Noreascon Wrapup
- Upgrade Day
August 2004
- Science Fiction Films: Which Are the Most Significant?
- Various Notations and Nonsense 8/29
- Noreascon Schedule — Final
- A Day at the Fair 8/22
- Newsworthy vs. Blogworthy
- Summer Break
- Doom 3
- Linkages
- Big Gay News
- Your “What the Hell?” Olympic Moment
- New Main Page Picture
- Cambodia, Texas, Whatever
- I Know It’s Wrong
- School Days Approaching
- Possibly Suicidal Updating
- Book of the Dumb 2 is Done
- My Favorite Colors Are Green, Blue and White
- Blah Blah Blah 8/6
- My World
- Book Deadline Today —
- Country Living
July 2004
- Note to the (Not Unduly) Paranoid
- Kerry’s Speech
- Getting Geeky
- 2004’s “Let Them Eat Cake” Moment
- No-Show at JournalCon
- Satellite Internet Sucks
- My Wildly Overpacked Noreascon Panel Schedule
- A Chilling Tale of Terror in the Skies!
- The Writing Flight Deck
- I, Hollywood
- Whoops 2
- In Defense of Marriage
- Wonder Twin Powers Activate
- Shadows and Clouds
- Election Notes
- Copyedit
- The Art of Comments
- Your Suggestions, Please:
- Mail Woes
- Kerry/Edwards
- The Ultimate in Poor Service
- Book Shilling 7/2/2004
June 2004
- Pamie’s Book Drive 2004 — Give, Damn You!
- She’s the Rocket Man
- Stating What Should Have Been the Obvious
- Dust Jacket
- Goin’ Photo Through the Fifth
- A Little Libel
- Double Whammy
- Demon Seed GMail Winners
- Lollapalooza Is Dead and I Don’t Feel Too Good Myself
- JournalCon 2004
- More Than You Ever Wanted to See
- They’re Everywhere!
- Cutest. Demon Seed. Ever — A GMail Contest
- Fashionably Liberal or Not
- Just to Clear This One Up
- Sunset 6/19/04
- Conservative = Moral Relativist?
- Nine 2
- I Refuse to Believe 9 Out of 10 Republicans Are Complete Tools
- Your GMail Haiku Winners
- Flood Journal
- Cheese Haiku = Gmail Accounts
- Expectations
- Adware Rant
- GMail Stylin’
- A Little Advice to Indie Artists About Their Websites
- Boston in September
- The Punch and Kick Game
- Your Music Selection 6/8/04
- The Most Unpopular Burger King Menu Item Ever
- Rejection! Again!
- Reagan
- Photos From Book Expo
May 2004
- Mail Woes
- Oh, One Thing.
- Open Thread 1
- Summer Break 2004
- Sunset
- Catblogging 5/26
- You Are Here
- A Speech Too Late
- Bye-Bye IndieCrit
- Author Appearance
- Other Whatevers
- Your insufferably Cute Athena Moment For the Day
- Double Posts
- Someone Who Wouldn’t Benefit From Tips For Stupid Criminals
- Todd Pierce Responds
- Book Cover
- Cover Letters
- Sorry
- Just Checking
- A Quick Note to About-To-Be Married Gays and Lesbians
- Counteracting the Bloody Toe
- The Perils of Hide and Seek
- Feed Me
- Meet the New Toy
- Evaluating Stupidity
- Science and God, Part Mumble Mumble Mumble
- DeLay, and the Frat Meme
- Because I’m a Technical Idiot
- Iraq Prison Follow-Up
- Rant Arrives
- The Right Message
- A Moment of Really Lame Introspection
- 35
- Torture
- Reality TV, Magazine Style
- I Feel It In My Bones
- Shocking the Shockable Classes
- Another Internet Milestone
- New Bathroom Reader
- Rant: Collected Ventings 1999 – 2004
- Ted at it Again, Again, Again
- Pragmatic Idealist
- 30 Minutes
- Also 3
- Spoilage
April 2004
- Note to April: Good Riddance
- Aw, Go Fly a Kite!
- Athena’s Mix CD
- Upgrade
- Google-icious!
- Reader Request Week 2004 Wrapup
- Quick Saturday Observation
- Reader Request 2004 #5: Objective Newspeople
- Racist Backtracking at its Finest
- Caskets
- Reader Request 2004 #4: Fatherhood and Pie
- Reader Request 2004 #3: Can Writing Be Taught?
- Reader Request 2004 #2: The Meaning of Life
- The Unassimilated Hispanic Menace
- Reader Request Week 2004 #1: Boys and Girls
- Krissy’s B-Day
- One Minor Point of Clarification
- Reader Request Week 2004: Get Your Suggestions In
- Note to LiveJournal Users
- Athena’s Point of View
- Easter
- A Political Musical Treat For Ye
- By The Way Note
- On Submitting Bitchy E-Mails to Scalzi’s Attention
- Move to the Country
- Pointless Meanderings
- Done With Detroit
- Fall Into the Gap
- Beta Reader Update
- The Gripes of the Unpublished
March 2004
- Seeking Beta Readers
- A Car Accident
- Quick Note on Clarke and Right-Leaning Blogs
- Different. Better.
- And Now, Some Music
- Handling it Well
- Cafe Society
- Authors Whining
- My Internet Decade
- Even More Long-Winded (But Practical) Writing Advice
- Someone Getting Stuffed
- My First Franchise
- A Moment of Uxorial Praise
- New York and Etc.
- Update
- Leviticans in Action
- “Dogs and Cats! Living Together!”
- Busy, Busy
- Guest Blogging
- Interesting
- Pre-Passion Thoughts
- Tactile
- Manic Monday
- What Agents Are Good For
February 2004
- Now Presenting the First Swing of 2004
- Oscar Predictions 2004 — Final
- Bandwidth
- My Right to Same Sex Marriage (in Massachusetts)
- Building the Perfect Goth Girl
- As Long As You’re Here —
- Addendum
- Leviticans
- Pictures of People’s Souls
- Fake Cover, Real Book
- I Am Married
- Get Me Rewrite
- Mack Daddy Day
- Ode to Librarians
- Novel Post-Mortem, Volume One
- Done 2
- 100,000
- I’d Pull Out My Hair if I Had Any
- They Say Phenylalanine Does Things to Your Brain
- A Welcome Outbreak of Sanity
- One Vote Majority
- News Bits
- CafePress Book
- What the Hell?
- My So-Called Writing Life
January 2004
- How to Challenge Science
- Evolution! Evolution! Evo–(Sound of Being Tackled)
- Mama Blogs
- IndieCrit is Back
- Oscar Predictions 2004
- The Backside
- Geekage
- Note to Republicans: Dump This Loser
- Quick Two Cents
- An Interview With Athena
- If I Were a Hammer
- Puzzling Attacks By Ignorant People
- Technical Note
- Why I Breed
- The Law of Internet Invocation
- Copyright
- Death to Desert Island Discs
- Clark For President
- Spam Reduction?
- The Rains! They Come!
- New Look
- Okay
- Danger Will Robinson
- Yet Another Irritating Tale of Progeny Precociousness
2003 362
December 2003
- 2003 Greatest Hits
- 2003, 2004
- Wrapping Up
- My Christmas Gifts
- Quick Note to “Scalzi Christmas” Readers
- Five
- Jackson & The Hobbit
- Why The Film is Better than the Book
- The Lord of the Rings in Film History
- What to Do With the Man
- DRM Silliness
- Another Review of Universe
- It’s Not Too Late to Pitch In
- By Popular Demand
- Doing My Part.
- The Bear Knows Why
November 2003
- Semi-Hiatus
- Thankful and Something Funny
- Fun with the GMH
- Redundant
- The Burning of MP3.com
- That Was Interesting
- Intermittent
- James At It Again
- A Scalzi Christmas Teaser
- Meanwhile, In An Alternate Universe…
- Remember the Literacy Drive
- What Online Music Means
- My New Favorite Picture of Me and Athena
- Leftover Turkey
- More Interviews
- Two Things
- Book is Out — and Cheap!
- Ted At it Again, Again
- Scalzi Christmas Update II
- Yargh 2
- A Scalzi Christmas Update And Radio Note
- Happiness Is…
- A Scalzi Christmas: My Donation Thing
- Listen to Iron Maiden, Baby, With Me
- Thoughts on Matrix Revolutions
- Confederate Dean
- Bragging
- To the Comments
- Something Sad
- It’s In!
- Wow
October 2003
- Cover Art
- The Downside
- Subscriptions
- Procedural Stuff
- Industrious Publishers
- The Genesis of a Literary Feud for the Ages
- Writing Stuff
- I For One Welcome Our New Preschool Overlords
- Final Spam Tally
- Buying Music Online
- States’ Rights Stupidity
- Speaking of Losers
- Fans of Losers
- Hit It, Sadly Enough.
- Dear Red Sox Fans:
- Dear Cubs Fans:
- Yeah
- Signal to Noise
- Interview Mania!
- Marking Myself for Death
- Link
- Somewhat Rambling Follow-Up
- California Schemin’
- Plates
- Chicago
- Afk
- National Novel Writing Month
- Country Boy
September 2003
- Pro Blogs and Editing
- Liars
- Small Note
- Radio, Radio
- Happy Birthday, Heather
- Fast Reader
- My Other Online Self
- Radio Interview
- Five Years
- Old Man’s War Release Date — An Update
- My Secret Vice
- The New Car
- Cars
- 9/11/03
- A Coke Out of Nostrils Experience
- Expungable
- The Death of a Car
- Ch-ch-ch-changes
- Old Man’s War Stuff
- All About Torcon
August 2003
- Away
- Addendum to Books, Writing, Etc.
- Books, Writing, Etc.
- Pluses and Minuses of Wireless
- It’s Official
- Hmmm
- Viruses.
- Oooh, Nice Link.
- Fun! Fun! Quiz! Time!
- I Speak
- Also —
- Mail Implosion
- Teeth. Tablet. Blog. Teeth.
- Forever September
- Contrasts
- I’m Kinda Boring at the Moment
- Fun With Tablets!
- Now It Can Be Told
- Sharon Short
- Note to Music Industry
- Slaking My Techno Thirst
- I Partially Rock!
July 2003
- Pray for Me
- Nudge Nudge Wink Wink
- One Way to Do It
- Correction
- Workshop Fracas
- Another Review of “Universe”
- Fight Music
- Difficult
- BuyMusic.com — a Review
- Envy
- A Good Bad Day
- I Want
- Strippers With Swords
- Music
- Radio Appearance Update
- Radio Appearance
- Zukezilla
- Maybe You WOULD Like Him When He’s Angry
- IndieCrit has Returned
- The Scalzi River is Back
- Random Thoughts
- My Museum
- On Second Thought
- Buy Pamie’s Book
- A Heads Up
June 2003
- Technical Post
- Pretty Picture Overload
- A Free Tip
- Represented
- Making Bets
- Sodomy For Everyone!
- Support Lileks
- What I’m Writing When You’re Not Looking
- Not Too Bright
- Day Off
- Reader Request Wrapup
- Book of the Dumb Headlines
- Reader Request #8: Writing
- Whoo Hoo!
- Reader Request #7: Ohio
- Reader Request #6: Immigration
- Reader Request #5: Jealousy
- Reader Request #4: Testing Preschoolers
- Reader Request #3: TV
- Reader Request #2: Life Online
- Reader Request #1: The Middle East
- Officially a Geek
- New Book! New Book!
- Submit to Reader Appreciation Week!
- The Stupidest Criticism of a Clinton, This Week
- Death to VH-1! Death!
- GhlaghgheeFest 2003
- Next August in Toronto
- Jesus Christ, This Music Rocks!
- Shiny Happy Scalzi
- Like War of the Worlds in Reverse
- Making Partner
- Lies Lies Lies
- Where’s the Pith?
- Impeachable You
- Personal Product Review
- How Does Our Garden Grow
- A Couple of Thoughts. You Know, On Stuff
- Something to Chew On
- Here We Go Again
- Go Go First Amendment!
- Curse You, Habitat For Humanity!
- Where the Hell is June? And OPM. And IndieCrit. And the Cat.
- Exploiting My Hunger For Flattery
- Gettin’ Bloggy Wit It
- An Opposing View of My Writing
May 2003
- Blogchild
- Wrap Up on “Tax Cuts, Feh”
- Isn’t This Nice.
- Vacation Pictures
- Tax Cuts, Feh.
- New Cat Update Update
- Writing Everything
- ScalziProduct ™
- New Cat Update
- Here’s Rod Stewart!
- Me Rite Guud!
- So That’s How You Do It.
- New Cat
- Interesting Factoid
- Another Note From Athena
- Caf? Press
- Vanity, Vanity
- Spooky Eye and Etc.
- Smoke This
- Rejection
- In Case You Were Wondering
- Happy Family
- Spam Names
- Rain, Etc
- Enter The Matrix Kinda Blows
- Stubborn Kid
- Contest Winner!
- Just a Reminder
- The Moon and The Matrix
- Yargh
- Geek Dad
- Managing Expectations
- Lone Star Stalled
- Proof I am Like This in Real Life
- A Gentle Reminder
- Note to Creationists
- Job
- Journaliers
- The Universe, in Handy Book Form
- Haircuts and Our Weekend
- 34
- Another Gripping Insight Into My Work Life
- Arty Spooky Athena
- Oh, Grow Up
- Exact Dates
- The Loneliest Group In America
- Monica Schroeder
- Fred in Hell
- You’ve Probably Missed It
- Note From Athena
- New IndieCrit Review
- Monica, Monica, Monica
- All But Merely an Empy Sky
- Blogging and Novels
- A Brief Moment of Gloating
- My Problem With Stupidity
- I Knew This Already
- Your Domestic Predator at Work
- Cover Story
- La la la
April 2003
- The Whole Day Off!
- IndieCrit Review Up
- Meet Phlegm Boy
- More Book News
- iTune This
- Picture Day Part 9: Strange Room
- Picture Day Part 8: Lawn Goes On
- Picture Day Part 7: Woof!
- Picture Day Part 6: Road to Nowhere
- Picture Day Part 5: Bust a Move
- Picture Day, Part 4: Cats
- Book Pages
- Picture Day, Part 3: Another Tree!
- Picture Day Part 2: Office Horror
- Picture Day!
- Strawberry Shortcake and Penny Arcade
- X Prime Followup
- X Prime
- What Would Jesus Surf
- In Case You’re Wondering…
- The Terror of Bad Chocolate
- New Review at IndieCrit
- Rehab Has Begun
- Your Thought For Monday Morning
- Easter Programming
- Oddly Appropriate For Easter Time
- Birthday Girl (and Boy)
- Piling On CNN
- What I Do When I’m Not Here
- “Free” Speech — and its Enemies
- Scene From an Uno Game
- The Right to Virtually Assemble
- Speaking of Taxes
- Um….Stuff. Yeah.
- Mmmm..music.
- Comments, Taxes, Oil
- War Lessons
- So There, Daddy.
- Making the Other Guy Die
- I Don’t Know What This Means, #43,226
- Contribute to the Book of the Dumb
- My New Sister
- Women at War
- Note to Canada
- For the Record
- Is It War?
- I Am a Science Fiction Convention Virgin
- Random Crap
- Morbid Thought for the Day
- Defense of the Flag
- Mission to Mars
- New Review at IndieCrit
- A Briefing From the Information Minister
- Old Friends
- Lessons From Heinlein
- The John Scalzi Store
- Another Georgia Flag
- Posters for Dubya Haters
- Music is the Message
- Your Gratuitous Link of the Day
- They Shoot People, Don’t They?
- Caution: Stupid People At Work
- Spat
- Right and Wrong
- Book Season!
- New IndieCrit
- A Little Something for the Video Game Geeks
March 2003
- Professor De Genova — Hero of the Right!
- Visits, Blogging, Notify Lists
- Bad Interview
- Just 49 Miles!!!
- Comment Thread Rules
- The War as Advertised
- Cavalcade of Comments I
- Lineup Change
- Murder in a Small Town
- Administrative Note
- The Confederate State of Iraq
- The Romulan Ambassador to TV
- Technology Report
- The PETA-ization of Protest
- Another Thought on Comments
- How Long How Many
- Dear God, Save Me From Your Followers
- What You Don’t Want to Hear
- Anonymous Comments
- That God Moment
- Contracts
- Link Notes
- The New Whatever, Part II
- The New Whatever
- Book is Here; Oscar Wrap-Up
- Music Plug; HTML Editor Update
- Mr. Nice Guy
- Incompetent
- John Scalzi’s Biography
- Publicist Guidelines
- Disclaimer
February 2003
- The Hudson and Visiting the Big Apple
- A Threat to World Peace
- Whoosh
- Oscar Predictions
- Slaughter
- Stupid, Stupid Microsoft
- New Retirement Accounts
- Columbia; A Trip to Tor
January 2003
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December 2002
November 2002
October 2002
- The Confederacy is Evil
- We Need New Constellations
- The Coming War
- Wanted: Authors
- Noah’s Flood: DId it Happen?
- Alternate Universes
- Fun Diseases
September 2002
- Pheromones
- Musicunited.org
- Stinky Cheese
- Bob Greene Redux
- Bob Greene Gets Canned
- Blogging Network
- Personal Things
August 2002
June 2002
April 2002
- Cogent Childfree Arguments
- Sometimes I’m Not Nice
- Trolling the Childfree
- Hints for White People
- Talkin’ ‘Bout My Demographic
- Little Bomber Girl
- Being a Good Father
- Afternoon Dads
- Blog Numbers Followup
- Questioning Blog Numbers