2011
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December 2011
- One Final 2011 Picture For the Fan Club
- Whatever Stats 2011
- This Song’s Been In My Head For a While, Now I’m Giving it to You
- 2011 in Review; Looking Ahead to 2012
- Sunsets, 2011
- The Big Idea: Adam Christopher
- Another Reason Why the Gradual De-White-Breadination of the US is Perfectly Okay With Me
- The Big Idea: Sherwood Smith and Dave Trowbridge
- Wrapping Up 2011
- Dear Readers: Publishers Think of You as Customers I SWEAR
- The Big Idea: Ryan David Jahn
- Me & Krissy
- All I Want For Christmas Are Some Deeply Stoned Cats
- Training for the Hunger Games
- Merry Christmas!
- 8 Things You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know About Your Favorite Holiday Music
- Whatever Best of 2011
- Chicon 7 Membership Discounts + Hugo Base Competition Extended
- Athenamas, 13th Edition
- One From the Vaults: What It’s Like to Be a Movie Critic (Circa 1997)
- Reader Participation Post: How Long Have You Been Reading Whatever?
- Curse My Accursed Honesty!
- Reminder: Tis the Season Not to Be an Ass
- Newspaper Dreams
- 2011 SF Film in Review
- A Note Regarding Future Big Idea Comments
- The Big Idea: John C. Wright
- A Festive Holiday Dog Picture For You
- Peak Gingrich
- Feedback Request Notes
- What I Looked Like at 20
- In Which I Solicit Feedback on Whatever 2011 (and 2012)
- Of Perhaps Some Archaeological Interest
- Busy Doing Chores
- Child’s Play Auction Update
- The Big Idea: Eric Griffith
- Release Dates for Redshirts and Fuzzy Nation Paperback
- WordPress Slightly Twitchy Today
- In Case You Believe I Am Universally Loved
- Hey! Wanna Buy a House?
- Science Fiction Films and Flying Snowmen
- Penny Arcade Guest Strip Auction to Benefit Child’s Play
- My Penny Arcade Guest Strip is Up
- Question for Republican/Conservative Readers
- Amazon, Local Bookstores, Me
- You Don’t Have to Be Murderously Jealous of My Awesome Official Redshirts Red Shirt
- Sunset, 12/12/11
- I Dare You to Find a Weirder Story Today
- Reminder: Last Day For Christmas Delivery of Signed Books
- Another One of My Sekrit Projects, Announced
- The Flying Snowman
- Lazy Sunday
- Three Things for Saturday
- The Big Idea: Jennifer Brozek
- Whatever Shopping Guide 2011, Day 5: Charities
- The Whatever Shopping Guide 2011, Day 4: Fan Favorites
- High Up There On the List of Things I Can’t Do
- And One More Round of Christmas Reruns
- The Whatever Shopping Guide, Day 3: Other Gifts and Crafts
- Some Truly Terrible Holiday Specials For You
- Another Scalzi Christmas Rerun: Jackie Jones & Melrose Mandy
- The Big Idea: Rudy Rucker
- Whatever Shopping Guide, Day 2: Non-Traditionally Published Books
- A Scalzi Christmas Rerun: Sarah’s Sister
- Whatever Shopping Guide 2011, Day 1: Traditionally Published Books
- They’ve Got It Down to a Science
- Paul Izzard! Eddie Williams!
- I’m Back Home and Have Two Days of E-Mail to Catch Up On, So Here’s a Picture of a Cat
- Quick Guns N’ Roses Review
- Whatever 2011 Shopping Guide Schedule: Get Ready to Promote
- The Big Idea: Colleen Mondor
November 2011
- The End of November
- Quentin Rowan Speaks
- Regarding Snobbery
- Crunching the Numbers for Remakes
- Dëthsnöw! It is Upon Us!
- Quick Note For Posterity
- Book Title Announcement
- Nebula Nomination Period Open
- Magick 4 Terri
- Reminder: Chicon 7 Cyber Monday Sale
- Whoa
- Juicy Sweet – Smeagol Fish Battering Song Dubstep Remix
- Lopsided Cat, Considerate in His Way
- Lord of the Tweets
- My Social Media Boosting Policy
- Thanksgiving Advent Calendar Wrapup
- The Big Idea: Delia Sherman
- Two Black Friday Notes (and One Cyber Monday Preview)
- Thanksgiving Sunset
- The Thanksgiving Advent Calendar, Day Twenty Four: Right Here, Right Now
- A Special Note to Canadians, For Whom It is Not Thanksgiving, Re: Signed Books
- Lopsided Cat Establishes His Dominance
- The Thanksgiving Advent Calendar, Day Twenty Three: Friends
- In Which I Make My First Presidential Campaign Contribution of the Election
- A Thanksgiving Advent Calendar Extra
- The Thanksgiving Advent Calendar, Day Twenty Two: Music That Mattered To Me
- RIP, Anne McCaffrey
- Also, Just So All Y’all Know
- Athena Tells It Like It Is
- The Thanksgiving Advent Calendar, Day Twenty One: Krissy and Athena
- Back to the US
- The Thanksgiving Advent Calendar, Day Twenty: Bradford, Ohio
- The Thanksgiving Advent Calendar, Day Nineteen: Being Busy (and Lazy)
- Busy Day
- The Thanksgiving Advent Calendar, Day Eighteen: Writing
- The Thanksgiving Advent Calendar, Day Seventeen: Fans
- Heading North
- The Thanksgiving Advent Calendar, Day Sixteen: The Internet
- Klout CEO Joe Fernandez Responds
- Signed Books for the Holidays: How to Get Them From Me
- Nerding Out on The Thing and In Time
- Sunset, 11/15/11
- The Thanksgiving Advent Calendar, Day Fifteen: My In-Laws
- SFWA Seeking Jurors for the Norton YA Award
- My Entry on Klout Now on CNNMoney
- The Thanksgiving Advent Calendar, Day Fourteen: Hand Sanitizer
- SFContario Appearance Schedule for This Weekend
- In the Rabbit Room
- DeKloutifying
- The Thanksgiving Advent Calendar, Day 13: First-Person Shooter Games
- I Know This is an Ad But I Don’t Care
- The Thanksgiving Advent Calendar, Day Twelve: Being Heard
- The Omelas Connection
- The Thanksgiving Advent Calendar, Day Eleven: The Service of Veterans
- In Which I Select a Current GOP Presidential Candidate to Vote For
- The Thanksgiving Advent Calendar, Day Ten: Sleep
- Omelas State University
- The Thanksgiving Advent Calendar, Day Nine: Foreign Language Editions
- “Fuzzy Nation” Spanish Artwork
- V for Vendetta, O for Occupy
- You’re Not the Boss of Ohio, Man
- The Thanksgiving Advent Calendar, Day Eight: Travel
- Announcements and Reminders and Prompts
- The Thanksgiving Advent Calendar, Day Seven: Coke Zero
- “Judge Sn” and “Alien Sex Story” Now Available in eBook Form
- Why I Expect Issue 2 is Headed for a Big Defeat on Tuesday
- The Thanksgiving Advent Calendar, Day Six: Being a Goofball
- SFWA Statement on Sexual Harassment
- The Thanksgiving Advent Calendar, Day Five: Competent People
- Unseen and Off to the Side, Peter Gabriel Says “My Work Here is Done,” and Walks Away, Smiling
- Hey Folks: Public Appearance Next Tuesday at Lehigh University
- The Thanksgiving Advent Calendar, Day Four: My Ukulele
- Beware the Wikipedia Scrapers
- How I Voted, 2011
- Adventures in Mouse Trapping
- Boom Chika Bow Bow
- Two Thanksgiving Advent Calendar Notes
- The Thanksgiving Advent Calendar, Day Three: Luck
- The Big Idea: Richard Kadrey
- Con or Bust
- And Now, For No Particular Reason, Here’s a Gourd That Looks Like a Swan
- The Thanksgiving Advent Calendar, Day Two: Air Conditioning
- They Don’t Make ‘Em Like They Used To
- Oh, and Also: I’m Doing a Thanksgiving Advent Calendar Thingie This Month
- The Thanksgiving Advent Calendar, Day One: Not Drinking Alcohol
- John Scalzi Did Not Co-Write The Forever War
October 2011
- Your Werewolf Will Attack You Now
- This Is Halloween
- How I Know There’s Something Just a Little Bit Wrong With Me, #7,212
- Why It’s Snowing
- For All You Children of the 80s Out There
- Silver Lining
- Your Friday Afternoon Bit of Amusement
- And Now, the Cover to Redshirts
- Occupy My Brain
- Further Proof Bacon Cat Will Never Die
- The Big Idea: N.K. Jemisin
- Dear Angels: Hire Kim Ng
- Reminder: I’m GoH at SFContario in Toronto, November 18 – 20
- The Big Idea: Lia Habel
- Shiny Happy Goth Gen-Xers Holding Hands
- Slave Leia is SO 1983
- Sunset, October 25, 2011
- Meet the Library
- The Big Idea: Lauren McLaughlin
- And Now, the Most Interesting Cat in the World
- And Here Comes the Standard Post-Trip Disclaimer
- Final Thoughts on the Germany Trip
- Checking In
- Going Home
- Pictures of München
- Tribble’s Tribbles
- München Says Hello
- In München
- Freiburg Recap
- A Quick Note to Writers
- Now in Freiburg
- Meet Boris
- E-Mail Down Briefly
- Me in a Suit and Tie
- Another View of Tübingen
- In Tubingen
- Science Fiction Film Writing Prompts
- Stuttgart, Tuesday
- My First Tour Appearance and Already I’m Clearly Punchy
- Day Off
- Frankfurt Saturday Update
- Saturday in Frankfurt: The Readinationing
- If It’s Friday It Must Be Frankfurt
- In Germany
- Where in the World Is John Scalzi, 10/13
- The Next 11 Days
- The Unspeakable Eldritch Horror of Our New Bunny
- The Big Idea: Matthew J. Kirby
- What Science Fiction Film Has Ruined For Me
- How I Buy Music, 2011 (Featuring John Wesley Harding)
- Ladies and Gentlemen, Your Sun Dogs for Today
- The Big Idea: Kirsten Kaschock
- Sunset, 10/10/11
- Name This Bunny 2: The Quickening
- The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction: Now in Beta
- The Return of My Unsolicited Annual Plug for WordPress.com
- The Big Idea: Kate Elliott
- Unfiltered ≠ Crazy
- What’s For Dinner at Chez Scalzi
- Your Sunday Mission: Name This Bunny
- What It Takes to Hurl an Orange Through a Sheet of Water
- Just Curious
- Also, What Fall Looks Like Here
- My Newest Toy
- BrandLink Communications Has the Internet Drop on its Head
- The New Resident
- The Big Idea: Matt Mikalatos
- Steve Jobs and Me
- It Sucks to Be a Jedi
- The Big Idea: Lee Arthur Chane
- What’s in My Yard Today
- Writer Beware and “The Write Agenda”
- Whatever Notes: October Edition
- Athena and the Owl
- Holy Crap, It’s October Already
September 2011
- Win One of Ten Copies of Cherie Priest’s Ganymede
- I Missed This Because I Was Away From the Internet Earlier This Week
- My Only Comment on the End of the Baseball Season Last Night
- Small Housekeeping Note
- Farewell, Suzuki Sidekick
- The Big Idea: Thomas Mullen
- Mother and Daughter
- A Trip Into the Mailbag
- Two Scalzi Short Works, Now in E-Book Form
- I Resent the Implication That I Have Become a Zombie of Some Sort
- Not Dead, I SWEAR
- Another From the Ministry of Dogs and Cats Living Together
- Look and Feel Update, 9/23/11
- Don’t Panic
- A Book With an Oddly Resonant Title for These Here Parts
- Various & Sundry 9/23/11
- It’s My Sister’s Birthday
- Let It Not Be Said That I Am Not Actively Fulfilling My Obligations
- The Big Idea: Karen Healey
- Comment Fiddlination
- One Additional Library Thought
- Don’t Give Me Any Ideas
- The Big Idea: S.M. Stirling
- A World Without Star Wars
- “Redshirt” Auction: What it Brought In (Hint: More Than You Think)
- LAST DAY for the “Redshirts” Auction to Benefit the Bradford, Ohio Public Library
- Kristine Blauser Scalzi, 9/18/11
- Doing Family Things With Family
- The Voice of a Generation, With a Trenchant Plea We All Need to Hear
- Go Maroons
- This Post Is Dedicated to Joe “I Totally Love RUSH” Hill
- A Whole Lot of Sky
- The Big Idea: Christopher Buehlman
- “Questions for a Soldier” in Subterranean Magazine #8
- “Redshirts” Auction Update
- German October Tour Itinerary
- The Big Idea: Jennifer K. Chung
- Why Ellen Ripley is a Problem for Science Fiction Film
- “Redshirts” Auction to Benefit the Bradford, Ohio Public Library
- Quick Takes on Two Things of Passing Literary Interest
- 13 Years of Whatever
- It’s Monday. Have an Open Pimp Thread
- Sunset, 9/11/11
- What We Did With Our Weekend, Concluded
- And For Those Who Want It
- My Thought For the Day
- 20 Years of Pro Writing
- What We’re Doing With Our Weekend
- This is What a Nice Guy I Am
- The Big Idea: Alma Katsu
- In Case Some Of You Missed the Fact That Jonathan Coulton Has a New Album Out
- Today’s Entrant in the “I Can’t Believe It’s Not XTC!” Sweepstakes
- The Big Idea: Merrie Haskell
- “Der Wilde Planet” Out in Germany
- 2011 Science Fiction and Fantasy Fall Film Preview
- Shut Up and Listen
- Lopsided Cat Welcomes You to the Rest Of September
- Quick Note re: Big Idea Queries
- The Big Idea: Lewis Shiner
- Vindication is Sweet
- I Will Be Away From Whatever Today, So Here’s Plan 9 From Outer Space to Amuse You
- Oh, and a Frankly Bizarre Question for You to Ponder
- A Fun Literary-Related Post for Your Friday Afternoon
- A Small Thing You May Wish to Know About My Upcoming Novel
- What to Do About the Dickheads
- An Inanely Catchy Song I Am Now Cursing You With
- “Fuzzy Man (Fuzzy Nation)” Now on Rockband.com
- The Big Idea: Gabrielle Zevin
August 2011
- A Quick SFWA-Related Thing of Some Importance (to SFWA and SFWAns)
- The Sort of Crap I Don’t Get
- And Now, A Summer Wrap-Up
- And Now, Your Tuesday Afternoon Pick Me Up
- The Big Idea: Marie Brennan
- When To Ignore Criticism (and How to Get People to Take Your Critique Seriously)
- First Day of School, 2011
- Sunday Update
- Context Reminder
- A Tale of Contrasts
- Late Hugo Notes
- The Big Idea: Jim Ottaviani
- Tonight’s Sunset, Photographed by Athena
- To The Commenter Currently Languishing in My Moderation Queue, and Soon to Be In My Trash Bin
- Last-Minute Appearance Notice: Saturday at Context 24 in Columbus
- Five Steps to a Classic Science Fiction Film
- Hummingbird in Repose
- Earthquake in Virginia
- Standard Post-Worldcon Mail Statement
- Renovation Recap
- The Big Idea: Brenda Cooper
- If Herman Li Made Hot Sweet Love to Nyan Cat
- You Will Never In Your Life See Anyone As Happy To Win An Award As Chris Garcia Was to Win a Hugo
- Heading Home
- Alive in Reno
- The Big Idea: Lev Grossman
- The Big Idea: T.C. McCarthy
- The Hugo Odds on Cinematic Greatness
- Worth Promoting to Its Own Post: Notes on Arguing
- And Now, the View From the Hotel Window
- In Reno
- The Big Idea: Ernest Cline
- Today’s Context-Free Bellow of Mad Scientist-Like Laughter
- This Week in Whatever
- The Only Time the Conservative Politicians Ignore Warren Buffett
- Apparently Sundays Are For Not Being Here Either
- Saturdays Are For Not Being Here
- Politics and Comment Threads: You Should Read
- Iowa Debate Discussion Thread
- McKean’s Inversion
- NPR’s Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels/Series
- The Big Idea: John Hornor Jacobs
- Also, Damn
- New Book News
- Oscar, Meet Andy
- Tonight’s Cloudscapes
- My Problem With Everything Right Now
- The Big Idea: Courtney Schafer
- SFWA Presidential Quarterly Report
- Renovation/Worldcon Schedule Update
- Gaaah
- My (Current) Renovation/Worldcon Schedule
- The Clouds On the Way Home
- Marissa Lingen Says Smart Things About Nominating and Voting on Books
- A Couple Notes About Me
- Black Walnut Fruits
- The Other Large Thing: A Short Story
- My Online Social Profile, 2011
- One of You Just HAD to Do It, Didn’t You
- Updated Appearance Schedule
- Why Attack the Block Isn’t a Blockbuster
- I’m Entirely Unmotivated to Write Anything Here Today, So Here’s Kermit Singing “The Rainbow Connection”
- I’m Studiously Avoiding Any Puns Involving the Word “Czech”
- The Belief Schism
- New Laptop Update
July 2011
- The Last Day to Vote for the Hugos
- A Girl and Her Horse
- What I Was Waiting For All Day Long
- Ladies and Gentlemen, Your Debtpocalypse Poll
- Sunset 7/28/11
- My Spot Spotify Review
- The Big Idea: Steven R. Boyett
- Dear People Who Bought a Worldcon Membership
- Done Deal
- Panels: They Are Not About You
- Being Boehner
- Comic Con Thoughts
- A Sunset, Hot and Fresh
- What It’s Like to Have Me For a Dad
- Announcing Books Sent to Scalzi/NewBookIn Twitter Feed
- The Big Idea: Chesya Burke
- Dogs and Cats Living Together: The Continuing Saga
- SFBC Video Interview of Yours Truly
- This is Supposed to be a HAPPY Occasion
- Facebook-Related Announcement
- Personal Updatery, 7/25/11
- Lopsided Cat Wishes to Inform You That I Am Taking the Weekend Off
- Just For the Record
- A Week of Silly Polls #4 & #5: Deadline Day!
- Hey, Want To See Some Cool OMW Fan Art?
- The Enbifocalizationingness Has Ocurrinated
- Here, Have a Cat
- Sunset, 7/20/11
- The Difference a Day Makes
- Captain America, Harry Potter, Movie Deal Update
- A Week of Silly Polls #3: The End of All Things
- How I Know It’s Time For a Trim
- Bachmann’s Headache
- A Week of Silly Polls #2: Find the Psychopath!
- The Big Idea: Ann VanderMeer
- Uh-Oh, It’s a Lifestyle
- Bye Bye Borders
- A Week of Silly Polls #1: Animals and Opposable Thumbs
- A Small Observation Regarding Words and Releases
- Today’s Advertisements for Myself
- Visiting Dog is Visiting (Again)
- First They Came For the Trees and I Said Nothing Because I Was Not a Tree
- The Debt Thing
- SFWA and Night Shade Books, Revisited
- A Writer, Pausing
- This is Useful to Remember
- The People Have Spoken
- Pick the Title of My Next Google+ Circle: A Poll
- So Long, Harry
- Our Furry Visitor
- Wolfgang Petersen on Old Man’s War
- Another Part of the Gen-X Childhood Done and Over
- Now It Can Be Told, Sort Of
- A Big Idea Reminder for Authors
- My Instant Google+ Review
- Clarion and San Diego
- What the Other Scalzis Were Doing in San Diego
- On My Way Home
- The Big Idea: Diana Rowland
- Your Endless Summer Begins Here
- Introducing the League of Jaunty Hats
- Reminder: Appearance Tonight, 7pm, at Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore
- In Which I Become Transformery
- How Being in San Diego is Affecting My Thinking
- Small Procedural Note re: Big Idea Stuff
- The Big Idea: Steven Gould
- Wait. It’s July 4th?
- My Jaunty Hat
- San Diego: I AM IN YOU
- Your Hugo Voting Reminder for July 1, 2011
- Clarion, San Diego Appearance, Whatever
- For Your Canada Day Pleasure
June 2011
- My Writer’s Digest Interview Now Online
- In Which I Become the Face of (Computing) Evil
- Various and Sundry, 6/30/11
- The Big Idea: Jacqueline Carey
- My Daughter, Professional Photographer
- Mastering One’s Own Domain, and No, This is Not a Seinfeld Reference
- The Curious Case of the Self Aware Cars
- The Big Idea: Lawrence M. Schoen
- Video Games Protected By the First Amendment; Still Open Season on Zombies
- BYOB As You’ve Never Experienced It Before
- ALA 2011 Recap
- Heading Home From New Orleans
- New York Puts a Ring On It
- The Obligatory View Out My Hotel Window
- I’ve Got the Ways and Means to New Orleans
- Twokulele
- The Big Idea: Erin Hoffman
- Summer Photo Sampler
- That’s My Soul Up There
- Giving It a Rest
- Americans: Consistently Ignorant
- The Big Idea: Greg van Eekhout
- Reminder: San Diego Appearance at Mysterious Galaxy, July 6th, 7pm
- Nominate for NPR’s 100 Best SF/F Books EVAR
- Back on the Chain Gang + Bookgasm Review
- Father’s Day
- The Latest Installment of AOHell
- The Scalzi Recommendation: Mortality Bridge
- My Anniversary Wish
- A Close Encounter
- A Random Announcement
- The Big Idea: James S.A. Corey
- A Shocking Confession
- Di Filippo on Fuzzy Nation
- How to Have a Writing Career Like Mine
- Technical Update
- Attack of the Cromulent Box Office
- Judge Stuffs Stupid Argument, Film at 11
- Technical Difficulties Continue
- Zeus the Cat Confronts the Greatest Mystery of His Life
- The Last of The God Engines (Plus New Master Li)
- Athena Would Like You to Meet Her Little Friend
- Not Dead and/or Overrun by Zombies, 6/12/11
- Saturday Update, 6/11/11
- Centurylink is Close To Losing a Customer
- I Have Too Much Work Today, So Here’s a Pretty Redhead With a Pleasant Voice Playing “Don’t Stop Believin'” on the Ukulele
- God Engines Go French
- The Big Idea: Allen Steele
- And Now, Goth Haiku, From Athena
- Rite of (Late) Spring
- How to Know If You’re Cheating
- Know Your Sequels
- Fun With Landlines
- Why You Can’t Get My Book in [Insert Country Here]
- The Big Idea: Daniel H. Wilson
- Mark Nevin Knows Where Ray Davies Lives
- A Nice Ranking
- One Day’s Haul (A Just Arrived Photo Shoot)
- Just Plain Stupid
- Not an Auspicious Start
- The United Kingdom Joins the Fuzzy Nation
- “Coffee Shop” Now Available for Nook and Kindle (and iBooks)
- Whoa. Saturn, Man.
- Visiting Dog is Visiting
- Meet the Ukulele
- In Repose
- “Fuzzy Man” Remix Contest Reminder
- It’s Like Your Ears Were There
- School is Out
- The Big Idea: Jonathan Walker
- What I Did With My Afternoon
- Various and Sundry, 6/2/11
- And the Winners of the Last Fuzzy Giveaway
- International House of 3D
May 2011
- The Final Fuzzy Nation Giveaway
- The Big Idea: Mira Grant
- Home, 5/30/11
- Housekeeping, 5/30/11
- I’m Home
- The Last Interview
- On My Way Home
- Phoenix Bookstore Appearance Reminder + Phoenix Comicon Update
- The Big Idea: Leah Cypess
- The Pros & Cons of Book Touring
- The “Fuzzy Man” Remix Contest!
- Phoenix Tour Appearance and ComicCon Schedule
- Traveling the Stars
- The Big Idea: Ellen Kushner
- The 2011 Hugo Voters Packet — Now Live!
- Nebula Weekend Recap
- Dialogue and Writing Excuses
- Still Alive Part II: Still Aliveier
- Still Alive
- Reminder: Mass SFWA Book Signing (Including Me) in DC Today
- The Big Idea: Nick Mamatas
- And Now, a Small Bit of Good News
- How to Make a Fuzzy
- A Mid-Tour Mailbag
- Seattle Surprises
- My Dear People of Seattle: The Quickening
- The Big Idea: Maria Dahvana Headley
- Boing Boing Joins the Fuzzy Nation
- Borderlands Books is Awesome
- LA In Review
- I Am Flying, With the Help of an Airplane
- Off To Los Angeles
- Tour Update 5/13
- Interview With the Portland Mercury
- Travel Bags
- For the Fans
- The Big Idea: Catherynne M. Valente
- Three Reviews, One Different From the Others
- My Dear People of Seattle
- Writing Lessons From Science Fiction Films
- A Washington, DC Signing Appearance (With Many Other Authors)
- In Which I Answer a Whole Bunch of Questions at Reddit
- Paul & Storm & Scalzi: The Podcast
- 42
- Fuzzy Nation: It Is Upon You!
- Not Nervous, Just Nervous
- Signed Copies at Jay and Mary’s
- Fuzzypalooza at SFReviews.net (Plus DDN Review)
- Look, I Don’t Want to Tell You Your Business —
- Mother’s Day Sunset
- The Giveaway Winner(s)
- Happy Mother’s Day
- One More Fuzzy Nation Giveaway
- From the Department of Dogs and Cats Living Together
- In Progress Product Review
- Speaking of Little Fuzzy
- And Now, a Sample of the Fuzzy Nation Audiobook
- A Couple of Personal Announcements
- My Other May Book Release
- The Big Idea: Christopher Farnsworth
- Chapters 3 & 4 of Fuzzy Nation at io9
- Summer SF/F Film Preview
- Sunset, 5/3/11
- Fair Warning on the Next Four Weeks
- Read the First Two Chapters of Fuzzy Nation
- The Big Idea: Kevin Hearne
- Ask Me Anything (over at Reddit)
- Athena Wishes to Express Her Enthusiasm For the Hardcover of Fuzzy Nation
- Osama, Obama, and Us
- Suddenly That Klingon Proverb Makes a Hell of a Lot of Sense
- The Faces of Penguicon 2011
- Photobombed by Chewie
April 2011
- Behold the Spectrum of Male Pattern Baldness
- The Other New Acquisition
- The New Car Arrives
- Various and Sundry, 4/28/11
- Supplementary Portraiture, 4/28/11
- All the Mammals in the Same Room
- 5/24 New York Public Library Event: Venue Change!
- New Fuzzy Review + Note to UK Fans
- The Big Idea: Jennifer Estep
- Spring Has Sprung
- Zeus is Dubious About the Return of the Coke Zero
- Hugo Entitlement
- Minicon Wrapup
- Spanish Android
- Heading Home
- The 2011 Hugo Nominees
- Happy Easter
- For the Doubters
- In Minnesota + Interview
- Off to Minnesota
- Pseudonyms, etc
- Easter Creatures
- Elaborately Self-Justified Sock Puppets Are Still Sock Puppets
- Interview at GeekDad
- A Nice Thing For a Tuesday Morning
- Let Claritin Season Commence!
- Another Starred Review for Fuzzy Nation
- Adding Phoenix to My Book Tour
- My Wife’s Birthday
- Wil Wheaton’s Doppelganger Will Serve You Now
- Saturday Morning in Dallas
- The Big Idea: Janni Lee Simner
- Hello Austin
- Off to Austin
- 684
- My Wife’s New Toy
- And Now: Bees!
- Obama’s Deficit Reduction Speech
- Guess the Alpha Pet in This Relationship
- Multiple Revenue Streams, Revisited
- Athena and the Pre-CGI Effects Films of Death!
- Surprise! I Have Another Fuzzy Nation ARC to Give Away
- Just Arrived, 4/12/11
- The Big Idea: Peter Orullian
- Cat With Books
- My Minicon 46 Schedule
- Your Hyperrealistic Movie Future
- Daisy and Lopsided Cat Pose For Their Spring Portraits
- Today’s Disturbing Biological Oddity
- Why I Didn’t Write About the Shutdown That Wasn’t
- 9:37 PM
- Hey, I Have Another Signed Fuzzy Nation ARC to Give Away
- My Day’s Been Oddly Surreal, So Here’s a Nice Picture of My Kid and the Dog
- Achievement Unlocked: New York Appearance
- Sunset, April 6, 2011
- Revenue Streams 2010
- Today’s Ridiculous Fanboy Extravagance
- Oh, and About That Cover Letter
- In Which I Reveal That TSWOTNDBOTDC Is Totally Not Real
- My Shiny New Vehicle
- Where I Will Be, April/May ’11 Edition
- Some New Things to Think About re: Electronic Books
- Bill James’ Pop Fly
- TSWOTNDBOTDC: The Poll
- Clarkesworld Interview With Me
- Unveiling My Secret Fantasy Project
- Ghlaghghee Does Not Approve of Charles Stross’ Latest Press Release
March 2011
- Why, Hello, My Little French Book
- Slightly Less Than Spring
- The Big Idea: Douglas Hulick
- 826
- Today’s Installment of “Attractive Singer Sings a Sad, Pretty Song”
- Did You Know March 30 Is International Give Away an ARC of Fuzzy Nation on Whatever Day?
- Science Fiction Film, Briefly
- It’s Like Waking Up in 1993 All Over Again
- I See No Possible Way How This Incredible Cover Letter Could Ever Fail
- The Big Idea: Derryl Murphy
- Yes, I’ve Seen the Latest Author Review Implosion
- Not Dead, Merely Uninteresting
- iPad Glitchery
- My Coke Zero Methadone
- Diana Wynne Jones
- Just Arrived 3/25/11
- I Like Amanda Hocking
- The Big Idea: Jesse Bullington
- Fuzzy Nation Audio, Book Tour Venue Change in Dayton, and Other Stuff
- Computer Nonsensery
- Away For the Day; Suggest a Writer’s Blog
- Tales for Canterbury
- Women Directors and Writers (Or the Lack Thereof) in SF Film
- ZOMG The Streams Are Crossing!
- You All Wish You Could Have Such a Blurb From Me
- The Big Idea: Lyda Morehouse
- Reminder Re: Hugos and Nebulas Voting
- Spanish Android’s Dream Cover Art
- Fuzzy Nation Starred Review in Publishers Weekly
- Who Ordered the Sunset With Extra Photoshopping?
- The Electronic Publishing Bingo Card
- 2011 Reader Request Week Recap
- And Now I Must Leave You
- My Musings on Corporations Will Be Graded
- Reader Request Week 2011 #9: Writery Bits ’11
- Reader Request Week 2011 #8: Short Bits ’11
- One For the Dog Lovers
- Reader Request Week #7: Unruly Fans
- Reader Request Week 2011 #6: Sociopathic Corporations
- The Big Idea: M.J. Locke
- The SFX Blog Awards
- Sunset 3/16/11
- Reader Request Week 2011 #5: Taking Compliments
- Reader Request Week 2011 #4: Old Man’s War and the Best SF/F Novel of the Decade
- Why Mars Needs Moms Flopped, and Other Things
- Reader Request Week 2011 #3: Middle Ages Me
- The Big Idea: Martha Wells
- The Cats, Displeased With the State of Their Food Bowls, Warm Up Their LASER EYEBALLS
- E-Mail Wonky (Update: Fixed)
- Reader Request Week 2011 #2: The End of Whatever
- Lopsided Cat Shows You His Bearskin Rug Imitation
- Reader Request Week 2011 #1: Children and Faith
- I Don’t Know About Anyone Else
- Today Kind Of Needs a Cat Pic, Doesn’t It
- Reader Request Week 2011: Get Your Requests In!
- The Big Idea: Christopher Rowe
- What I’m Giving Up For Lent*
- Amanda Hocking and Self-Publishing
- Some Alien Invasions Are Better Than Others
- And Now Something Entirely Unrelated to Me
- Next Year at Boskone
- Back Through the Stargate
- Ken MacLeod on Old Man’s War
- Fuzzy Nation US Book Tour Dates
- New Novel Followup
- Another One
- In Which I Blather About “The Name of the Wind”
- Justine Larbalestier on Why She Loves Bad Reviews
- Some Useful Clarifications About Fuzzy Nation
- What I Did With My Saturday
- Super Saturated Saturday
- Dear Writer: I’m Sorry, I Don’t Have Time to CRUSH YOU
- It’s Dogs! And They’re Running!
- The Big Idea: M.J. Putney
- DDoS Blues
- Penelope: A Poem
- Ghlaghghee Wishes to Engage You in a Staring Contest
- Oscars and Disclosures
- General E-Mail Note
- Tor.com Best SFF of the Decade Results: OMW Is In
- What I’ve Learned With the Cr-48
February 2011
- The Two Sides of Athena
- Out of It
- Deven at 40
- Another War Entirely In The Past
- What Happens When All The Snow Melts At Once
- Quick Oscar Wrapup
- Travelin’ Man
- Look Who’s Back
- Same Problem, Different Cat
- Can’t Update; Cat Blocking Keyboard Access
- Oscar Prediction Addendum
- The Big Idea: Anton Strout
- OMW Movie News Addendum
- Hey, Ever Wondered If There Would Ever Be an Old Man’s War Movie?
- The Big Idea: Sophie Littlefield
- I Am Number Four Falls Down
- Just Arrived, 2/22/11
- It Is a Good Day To Flog: A Promotion Thread
- The 2010 Nebula Awards Nominees
- Gaaah, Monday
- Your Mind, It is Blown
- 10 Years in Ohio
- First, a Sunrise
- Away From Internets
- Somehow Oddly Appropriate For a Friday Night
- I Am Running For SFWA President (Again)
- Today’s Quote From Elsewhere Which Resonated With Me, Seeing as I Was Once a Young Man, and Now Have a Daughter
- Wisconsin and Labor
- The Big Idea: Howard Andrew Jones
- Borders, Bankruptcy and Writers
- This Is My Favorite Rush Song And I Don’t Care Who Knows It
- Daisy’s Day Gets Better
- Science Fiction and “Science Fantasy”
- This Morning’s Exciting Adventure!
- A Reminder To SFWA Members
- The Big Idea: Greg Taylor
- Remember, Today is International Grover Appreciation Day
- How the Unit of Measurement Known as the “Scalzi” Was Ascertained
- Dear People Who Just Anonymously Sent Me A Large Package Which Included a Typewritten Note Asking Only If I Want To Know More
- Home Again
- Capricon Waves Farewell
- The Big Idea: David Halperin
- Friday Night Check-in
- Today’s Nefarious Plans
- How I’ve Been Spending My Evening
- In Chicago(land)
- The Big Idea: Karen Mahoney
- Today’s Lesson From Congress
- A Curious Historical Artifact For You
- Star Wars Characters: Some Actually Get Better
- My Capricon Schedule
- The Sun Is, Like, Totally Watching You, Man
- The Big Idea: Stina Leicht
- Bandwidth Boosting
- And Now, My Thoughts On the AOL-Huffington Post Thing
- Hey, Look: Fanties!
- Dear Fluffy White Flakes of Snow, Which Are Currently Falling So Picturesquely and Settling On Top of the Glacier Which Now Surrounds My House
- Fun With Artwork
- Science Fiction Award Recommendations 2010: The Reader’s List
- Once Again, Lopsided Cat Shows All and Sundry How Napping Gets Done
- First Person Sledding
- The Big Idea: Walter Jon Williams
- Three Small Notes About Punctuation, On the Internet or Otherwise
- Oh, and Have a Sunset
- Sledding Addendum
- A Small Compensation
- This Is How Bad It’s Gotten
- Warming Up, the Science Fictional Way
- How to Piss Off a Bunch of YA Authors
- February One Notes and Reminders
- Krissy Gets Icy
- The Big Idea: Andrew Lane
- Welcome to the Deadly Ice Planet of Death AKA February
- Oy, Monday
January 2011
- Sunset, 1/30/11
- Crimes of Education
- Being Fictional
- Brain Not Working; Have Some Music
- Hey, I’m Touring Germany in October
- Professing My Ignorance About Egypt
- Convention Announcement
- Just Arrived, 1/27/11
- The Big Idea: Matt Forbeck
- Oscar Predictions, 2011
- Oscars and Science Fiction, 2011
- Super Instant State of the Union Reaction Post GO!
- Tonight’s Musical Contribution
- Agent to the Stars French Cover
- Some Late Night Music For You
- Monday (Barely Still) Morning Update
- Consider This Picture of an Empty Chair a Metaphor For My Presence Here This Weekend
- Gaaaah, I Can’t Choose The Haiku Contest Finalists Because There Are Too Many Good Ones, So Here’s Just The Winner
- Dogs and Cats Living Together: The Continuing Saga
- The Big Idea: Jo Walton
- Contest Update and Facebook Followup
- January is the New February
- Musicals From Science Fiction Films: My Picks
- And Now, For No Particular Reason, a Rant About Facebook
- First One Publishing and 404 Pages
- The Big Idea: Kameron Hurley
- What My Daughter Doodles in School
- Quick Contest Update
- Music For a Sunday Night
- Today’s Writing Contest To Run Like Hell From
- And Now, Something to Send You Into the Weekend
- This is the 6,000th Post on Whatever, So Obviously We Must Have a Picture of a Cat
- Why 2,000 Words Works For Me
- Farhad Manjoo is Right and I Will Go to This Barricade With Him
- Two Quick Reminderations
- Engaging in Flagrant Bipetuality
- The Big Idea: Wendelin Van Draanen
- Obama Tucson Speech Discussion Thread
- Snow Day Snaps
- Become a Character in My Latest Book: A Contest
- Yeah, No
- Yes, It Will Suck. No, I Don’t Really Care
- People We Can All Agree Are Scumbags
- Oh, And —
- Chicagoland: SOON I WILL BE IN YOU
- The Big Idea: Kelley Eskridge
- Oh, Look, a Poll
- This is Dumb
- Notice: Official John Scalzi Public Facebook Page Now Live
- Christopher Trussell
- Giffords Shooting Follow-up
- Congresswoman Giffords Discussion Thread
- Your Driver is Here
- The Thought of Stringing Words Together On a Friday Afternoon Fills Me With Inexorable Dread, So Here’s a Picture of a Cat
- Today’s Observation at Just Past One AM
- And Now, An Excerpt From My Current Work in Progress, Which Will Change Your Life Forever
- The New Speaker
- The Workspace
- Science Fiction Films I’m Looking Forward To
- SF/F Authors/Editors/Artists 2011 Award Pimpage Post
- The 2011 Big Idea Open Call to Publicists, Editors and Authors
- The Big Idea: Lauren Beukes
- Life in Half Tone
- I’ll Tell You What
- Taos Toolbox Accepting Applications
- Elfman-Related Gloatination
- The 2011 Award Pimpage Post
- Mmmmm… Babylicious
- That One Small Detail I Alluded To In the Previous Post
- Whatever Stats 2010: The Nerdination
- The First Sunset of the Year
- A Quick New Year’s Note About a Book Which Doesn’t Exist