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December 2012

  1. So, 2012
  2. The Offer on Old Man’s War: A Ten-Year Retrospective
  3. The Sunsets of 2012
  4. Most Trafficked Whatever Posts of 2012
  5. Getting Ahead of the E-Mails
  6. On Transfolk
  7. Book Editing Update
  8. Editing a Book Today
  9. More Boxing Day Blizzard Photos
  10. Boxing Day Blizzard Update
  11. Here Comes the Blizzard
  12. Three Views of My Wife on Christmas
  13. Pose-Off with Jim C Hines, Round Two
  14. Eight Million Views for 2012
  15. Christmas on Mars
  16. Having Constructed the Chocolate House, Athena and Cecilia Now Terrorize the Poor Candy-Based Residents Within
  17. Dear Internets: My Wife Has Made Dessert for Christmas Eve Dinner
  18. Whatever Best of 2012
  19. Athena at 14
  20. Old Man’s War Tops Locus Online’s 21st Century SF Novel Poll
  21. Quick Numbers Note
  22. A Window to Winter
  23. The Existential Exasperation of Being John Boehner
  24. You Wish You Could Sample My Daughter’s Christmas Cookies
  25. How’s Your Christmas Spirit This Year?
  26. One For the Fan Club
  27. What’s That? You Wish You Could See a Documentary On Morning Star? Here You Go
  28. The Big Idea: Ramez Naam
  29. End of the Year Office Mess
  30. Athena, 12/18/12
  31. The Results of My Fundraising Bribery Initiative + A Challenge to Jim C. Hines
  32. The Whatever Geographic Default Entry
  33. “Rip-Off!” Audio Anthology Now Available; Also: Hey! A Contest!
  34. Old Man’s War eBook $2.99 Today Only
  35. The Hobbit at 48 Frames Per Second: A Review
  36. Writer or Spambot?
  37. Tobias Buckell Goes Deep and Comes Back With Data
  38. Sunset, 12/16/12
  39. Sunday Dog Photo
  40. And Now a Thought From Justice Scalia
  41. Meet the Mandolele
  42. Here, Have a Sundog
  43. Tech Notes on the XPS One (and Windows 8)
  44. Some Thoughts on the Pose-Off Between Jim C. Hines and Me
  45. Gene Wolfe Chosen as SFWA Grand Master
  46. Oh, And: Last Day to Get Signed Books From Me for the Holidays
  47. I’m Off Having New Tires Put on My Mother-in-Law’s Car, So Here’s the Cover for the Italian Version of The Ghost Brigades for You to Look At
  48. The New Toy, December 2012 Edition
  49. My Dear Friends: You Will Not Be Able to Unsee the Unspeakable Terror That is the Jim C Hines/John Scalzi Cover Pose-Off
  50. Introducing the Video Game I’m Working On: Morning Star, From Industrial Toys
  51. The Cover to the Czech Edition of Redshirts
  52. Reminder: Signed Books for the Holiday Orders in by December 12
  53. A Little More Re: Writing For Free
  54. A Note to You, Should You Be Thinking of Asking Me to Write For You For Free
  55. All Thirteen Episode Covers From The Human Division
  56. The Big Idea: Adrienne Kress
  57. Whatever Holiday Shopping Guide 2012, Day Five: Charities
  58. Huge Ads With My Books In Them Make Me Happy
  59. The Albee Agency Using Testimonials From Authors the Authors Did Not Give
  60. Whatever Careens Wildly Down the Streets of Social Media, Scaring the Cats
  61. The Big Idea: Martha Wells
  62. Whatever Holiday Shopping Guide, Day Four: Fan Favorites!
  63. The Human Division Episode Release Dates + Cover Art Reveals + More!
  64. And To Close the Evening, This May Be My Favorite Redshirts Review Yet
  65. In Which Krissy Makes Her Opinion of the “Fake Geek Girl” Accusers Known
  66. Dear Whateverians: Choose My Pose!
  67. Whatever Holiday Shopping Guide, Day Three: Arts, Crafts, Music and More
  68. The Big Idea: Mark Yohalem
  69. The Story Board Ep. 5 – “Life Online: Putting the Meme in Memoir”
  70. Hey Look! The Chicon 7 Opening Ceremonies!
  71. The Transporting Poetry of Spam Coding
  72. Meet the Folks at Jay and Mary’s Book Center
  73. Announcing the “Rip-Off!” Audio Anthology: You Pick the Cover
  74. The Big Idea: Robert Boyczuk
  75. Whatever Holiday Shopping Guide 2012, Day Two: Non-Traditionally Published Books
  76. Speaking of Books, Here Are the New Books/ARCs at the Scalzi Compound
  77. Whatever Holiday Shopping Guide 2012, Day One: Traditionally Published Books
  78. Jim C. Hines Strikes a Pose for Charity and Ropes Me In
  79. The Big Idea: Joe Monti
  80. Ignore This Test Post
  81. The Signination: The Aftermath
  82. Off To Sign Books at Jay and Mary’s
  83. Thus Begins the Deflabination
  84. A Very Scalzi Christmas

November 2012

  1. Damn, It’s a Good Thing I Don’t Have to Be Creative This Week
  2. I Have Little of Interest to Say at the Moment, So Here is Krissy Reading The Human Division Before the Rest of You
  3. The Guardian Checks In
  4. The Whatever Holiday Shopping Guide Returns Next Monday
  5. Vote For the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy in Two Separate Centuries
  6. A Relevant Point Regarding Expectation Management
  7. My Love for You Will Still Be Strong
  8. Life in Ruralstania
  9. Advertisements for Myself
  10. Festively Preparing for the Apocalypse
  11. Stealing From The Police
  12. If You Read German
  13. Apropos to the Day
  14. When Black Friday Comes
  15. Thanksgiving Again
  16. Today’s Vaguely Science Fictional Thought of the Day
  17. New Books and ARCs, 11/20/12
  18. The Existential Horror of Betaness
  19. Monday Is Blatant Advertisements For Myself Day
  20. Quick Notes on My Personal Feminism
  21. Enjoying Them While They Last
  22. A Girl and Her Dog
  23. Girl With Surgical Boot
  24. Today is Redshirts Publication Day in the UK
  25. Two Strangely Relevant Links
  26. Today is a Good Day to Subscribe to Clarkesworld Magazine
  27. When Gut-Boys Attack
  28. Books Are Back
  29. A Couple of Quick and Final Post-Election Notes to Liberals and/or Obama Supporters
  30. How to Get Signed and Personalized Scalzi Books for the Holidays, 2012
  31. Some Quick and Final Post-Election Notes to Some But Not All White Men
  32. Redshirts in German: Out Today!
  33. Boycotts and Franchises
  34. Veteran’s Day Once More
  35. Look Who’s Back
  36. Just Arrived: My First “Hey, Are You Dead?” E-Mail of the Day.
  37. Meanwhile, in Darke County
  38. The Big Idea: John Schwartz
  39. Post-Election Notes For the GOP (Not That They’ve Asked For Them)
  40. The Schadenfreude Pie I Make This Week Will Be Dedicated to Right-Wing Pundits
  41. Next Morning Presidential Election Thoughts
  42. Obama Wins a Second Term
  43. Scalzi Animal Update
  44. Vote Cat Has an Important Message For You This Election Day
  45. The Big Idea: Ryk E. Spoor
  46. Redshirts Nominated for a Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Award
  47. Announcing the Scalzi Super Bundle from Subterranean Press — This November Only
  48. In Which xkcd Gets It Right Again
  49. What If Romney Wins?
  50. My 2012 Election Prediction: Obama 294, Romney 244
  51. My Brain Just Sent Me A Note
  52. Just For the Record
  53. The Big Idea: John Picacio
  54. It’s the Dog of the Bride of Frankenscalzi!

October 2012

  1. It’s the Daughter of the Bride of Frankenscalzi!
  2. NaNoWriMo Coming ‘Round
  3. Hey Look Everybody I Made You a Podcast For Reals
  4. When a Redshirt Has a Mission On Halloween, Doom is Just Taken as Read
  5. If I Ran the Presidential Elections
  6. Quick Thoughts on Disney Buying LucasFilm
  7. The Big Idea: Robert St. Amant
  8. First Snow of the Season
  9. The Whatever Presidential Endorsements: Add Yours Here
  10. The Scalzi Endorsement: Obama For President
  11. The Big Idea: Zach Weinersmith
  12. Husband of the Bride of Frankenscalzi!
  13. A Few Process Notes on “Fan Letter”
  14. A Small But Shining Example of How to Be Wrong
  15. Oh SNAP
  16. Behold! The Bride of Frankenscalzi!
  17. On the Occasion of my 25th High School Reunion, Words From the Teenage Me
  18. A Fan Letter to Certain Conservative Politicians
  19. Oh, and Look, the Korean Version of Zoe’s Tale Arrived at the House Today
  20. The Japanese Cover of The Android’s Dream
  21. A Playlist For Amber
  22. The 3D Chess Rope-A-Dope Kung Fu Debate Strategy
  23. The Humble eBook Bundles and Authors
  24. Humble eBook Bundle Post-Mortem
  25. What It’s Like to Live In Ohio Right Now
  26. Morning After Thoughts on Completing The Human Division
  27. October in Ohio
  28. The Human Division: Done!
  29. Interview of me in Ghettoblaster Magazine
  30. The Human Division Writing Update
  31. I Shall Not Be Updating Again Until Monday, and So I Leave You With a Picture of a Cat
  32. My Live at ComicCon Interview with Sword & Laser
  33. Late Stage Book Writing Office
  34. To Heal a Nation, a Shoutout to Team Reddit
  35. Morning Here Looked Like This
  36. Today’s Public Brag on My Kid
  37. Gawker/Reddit Followup
  38. Hey, Look, I’m On Gawker
  39. A Quick Note
  40. Just to Mess With Your Time Sense, Here’s a Sunset Photo First Thing in the Morning
  41. Gawker, Reddit, Free Speech and Such
  42. The Humble eBook Bundle Expands
  43. A Shocking Disclosure I Disclose To Shock You
  44. One Major Reason Why I Love to Come Home
  45. A Week’s Worth of Book Arrivals
  46. And Thus Are All My Revels Ended
  47. My Other Guest of Honor Gift at Capclave
  48. My Guest of Honor Gift at Capclave
  49. More Old Man’s War Movie News
  50. View From the Hotel Balcony 10/12/12, Plus Reminder: Capclave!
  51. For Your Friday Political Discussion Consideration
  52. The Big Idea: Ned Vizzini
  53. Travel Travel Travel
  54. In Which the New York Times Suggests I Am a Pretentious Git
  55. Amazon Author Rankings and Who They Actually Benefit
  56. Checking in on the Humble Bundle
  57. The Big Idea: Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
  58. I Trust That The Reason I Found This Desk Sign Amusing Will Be Readily Obvious to the Readers of This Site
  59. Old Man’s War Part of the Humble eBook Bundle
  60. And Now, A Quick Plug For WordPress VIP
  61. Oh, Hi
  62. Oh, Okay, Here’s One Thing For This Sunday
  63. Away for the Weekend
  64. I’ll Be Doing a Redshirts Q&A on io9 Today, 3pm Eastern, So Get Your Questions In Before Then
  65. Various and Sundry 10/5/12
  66. Write Write Write
  67. Sunset, 10/3/12
  68. Aggressively Not Answering E-Mail at the Moment
  69. Your Question for the Day, 10/3/12
  70. io9’s Book Club is Talking About Redshirts
  71. The Big Idea: Catherynne M. Valente
  72. The National Flag of Catnapistan
  73. And Now the Cover to the New Chinese Edition of Old Man’s War
  74. Portrait of the Artist as a Dude on Deadline

September 2012

  1. A Man And His Hat, A Collaborative Metafictional Event by Gaiman, Wheaton, Scalzi, Kluwe, Ellis, Burns and a Hat
  2. Greetings From Early Autumn Ohio
  3. My Thoughts on Mitt Romney, Person
  4. A Glimpse Into My Writing Brain Right Now
  5. New Arrivals, 9/29/30
  6. A Picture of an American Flag, Plus a Question
  7. Here is the Logitech Keyboard for the iPad
  8. For No Especially Good Reason I Put Each Letter of the Alphabet Into My Web Browser and Posted the Link it Autocompleted To
  9. For “Nerd Day” at Her School, Athena Recreates a Classic of the Form
  10. Today’s Assignment: Register to Vote
  11. Today’s Assignment: Recommend a New Book
  12. Not Dead, Just Writing
  13. And Thus It Begins
  14. Still Life With Fuzzy, Ukulele and Mallet
  15. My Tech Life, 2012
  16. Various and Sundry, 9/22/12
  17. Writing on an iPad: An Update
  18. The Big Idea: Malinda Lo
  19. This is a New One For Me
  20. Dave and Liz and Chicago Save the World: A Short Story
  21. The Big Idea: Amanda Carlson
  22. How to Be a Good Commenter
  23. The Big Idea: Jay Kristoff
  24. Hey! I Don’t Have to Pay Income Tax!
  25. Public Appearances 2013, Or Lack Thereof
  26. Capclave Calling
  27. A Promise to Twitter Fulfilled, or, How I Ended Up Covered in Frosting by Roller Derby Girls on Neil Gaiman’s Lawn
  28. Don’t Mind Me, I’m Just Testing Out Using a Keyboard With My iPad
  29. Someone Who Speaks Russian Needs to Tell Me What’s Going On Here
  30. Saturdays Are For Finishing Up Woefully Overdue Anthology Stories
  31. Steve Jobs Was Wrong
  32. You Never Go Full McCain
  33. The Big Idea: Sarah Beth Durst
  34. 14 Years of Whatever, Plus Book Announcement
  35. This is Exactly What Happens When I Pitch Television Shows
  36. The Big Idea: Sarah Rees Brennan
  37. A Further Crawl Into My Hermitage
  38. Look, Everyone! It’s the Tuesday Mantis!
  39. A Little Something I Wrote on Facebook Earlier Today
  40. The Big Idea: Peter Adam Salomon
  41. Dear Midwesterners
  42. Watch the Hugo Ceremony, If You Dare
  43. A Question For the Weekend
  44. Various and Sundry, 9/7/12
  45. A Small Observation Regarding the Personal Touch
  46. The Big Idea: Kevin J. Anderson
  47. So This Is a Thing That Actually Just Happened
  48. Subterranean Press September eBook Sale
  49. The Big Idea: Morgan Keyes
  50. The Now Standard Back From Worldcon Disclaimer + September Schedule Notes
  51. Chicon 7 Recap
  52. The Big Idea: Gwenda Bond
  53. Behold the Mallet of Loving Correction
  54. The Hugo Winners, 2012
  55. Sunday at Chicon
  56. Not Dead, Just Busy

August 2012

  1. The Big Idea: Adam Christopher
  2. And So It Begins
  3. The View From the Hotel Window, Chicon 7 Edition
  4. The Big Idea: Richard Kadrey
  5. An Assignment to Keep You Occupied, 8/28/12
  6. Neil Armstrong and Futures Past
  7. A Question to Keep You Occupied, 8/27/12
  8. My Plans For the Weekend Do Not Impress Ghlaghghee
  9. My Chicon 7 Programming Schedule
  10. John Scalzi (Not Me) Reads John Scalzi (Me)
  11. Athena at the Fair
  12. Feral Kitten Update, 8/22
  13. “John Scalzi’s Blog” Now Set to Music
  14. For No Particularly Good Reason, My Ranking of Pixar Films, From Best to Least Quality
  15. Todd Akin
  16. Steven Brust Pens a Ditty For You
  17. I’m Plotting. Here’s the New Muse Single to Keep You Busy
  18. Feral Kitten Update, 8/20/12
  19. RIP, Tony Scott
  20. (Not) Reviewing Books
  21. Relinking to My Comment Deletions Policy
  22. Feral Kitten Update, 8/18/12
  23. Dungeon Stomping
  24. Your Second Thought For the Day
  25. Your Thought For the Day
  26. The Summer Home
  27. You Never Know Just How You Look Through Other People’s Eyes
  28. RIP, Harry Harrison
  29. Oh, Look, Another One
  30. While I Am Off Doing Things, Look At This Pile Of Cool Upcoming and Just Released Books
  31. Comment Ratings
  32. Athena Totally Punches the Eighth Grade in the Face
  33. Last Day of Summer Around Here
  34. The Paul Ryan Pick
  35. Summer’s End
  36. A Tangential Personal Note on Creepers and Me
  37. An Incomplete Guide to Not Creeping
  38. The Big Idea: Kari Sperring
  39. Athena Takes Pictures
  40. Why I Don’t Just Admit I Am A Democrat
  41. The Big Idea: Lara Zielin
  42. Your Social Media Thought For the Day
  43. The Big Idea: Jim C. Hines
  44. I’m Totally Using This Excuse
  45. And Now, Here’s Lopsided Cat
  46. Public Statement By the Readercon Convention Committee
  47. Wil Less Than Threes Curiosity, the Mars Lander
  48. Hey, Look, I’m on Sword & Laser This Week
  49. The Big Idea: Meagan Spooner
  50. Educational Use of Whatever Posts
  51. Hello, I Am Old
  52. Shadow War’s Hugo Chances
  53. A Trio of Caveats
  54. “To Sue The World,” Featuring Wil Wheaton + All of w00tstock 4.0

July 2012

  1. Readercon, Harassment, Etc
  2. About That Hiatus
  3. Last Chance: Hugo Voting
  4. My Sneaky Weekend
  5. The Ghost Brigades eBook (Almost Certainly Temporarily) Down on Amazon
  6. Followup for “Geek”
  7. Who Gets To Be a Geek? Anyone Who Wants to Be
  8. Sunset, 7/24/12
  9. Wow, This Mushroom-Shaped Cloud Isn’t Worrying in the Least
  10. The Audible Giveaway
  11. Various and Sundry, 7/24/12
  12. A Self-Made Man Looks At How He Made It
  13. Managing Whatever These Days
  14. What Krissy Did With Her Saturday
  15. And Here is Bryan Ferry to Take You Into the Weekend
  16. Tor/Forge Totally DRM Free, Plus Anecdotal Notes Regarding Redshirts
  17. Join the “B” Team
  18. Advance Warning: I’m Taking August Off
  19. Reminder: Vote for the Hugos!
  20. Fans and Pros on Gender Parity on Panels
  21. Comic Con Catchuppery
  22. Bad Reviews: I Can Handle Them, and So Should You
  23. Not a Sunset, 7/17/12
  24. The New Desktop, Completed
  25. The New Desktop Has Arrived
  26. Things to Do Today
  27. My w00tstock 4.0 Performance: “To Sue The World,” Featuring Patrick Rothfuss
  28. And Then, When I Came Back Home, These Were the Books That Were Waiting For Me
  29. Monday is For Travel
  30. Big Idea Notice
  31. Take a Moment Out of Your Day to Shame an Appalling Thief
  32. Thesis: ComicCon is Awesome But Sucks Time From You
  33. Not Dead
  34. My Interview On Talk of the Nation
  35. Today’s Schedule
  36. I’ll Be on NPR’s Talk of the Nation Tomorrow
  37. The New New Phone
  38. Dear Lord, I Do Blather On, Don’t I
  39. My Technological Karma Continues its Downward Slide
  40. The Big Idea: D.B. Jackson
  41. The Calm Before the Nerds
  42. The Other View Out My Hotel Window
  43. Today’s View From a Hotel Window
  44. Away Today
  45. Oh, Hey, Look, I’m Profiled in the New York Times
  46. My ComicCon Schedule
  47. Hey! I’m Performing at w00tstock!
  48. Announcing The Human Division
  49. Sunset, 7/5/12
  50. The Big Idea: Pamela Ribon
  51. Where My Missing MacBook Air Is
  52. Happy 4th of July
  53. And Now Here’s William Beckett To Jangle His Way Through a Tuesday Night
  54. Chief Justice Roberts and Political Orthodoxy
  55. The Books That Arrived While I Was Away
  56. Calling the Undecideds
  57. Yes, I’ve Seen This Red Shirt-Related Macro + B&N Review Take on Redshirts
  58. It’s Okay Not to Read Me
  59. The Year Half Gone and What Do I Have to Show for It?

June 2012

  1. In Today’s Very Important News
  2. On to Louisville
  3. Health Care SCOTUS Ruling Reaction Thread
  4. The Rough Guide to the Universe on Google Play
  5. The Redshirts Tour Final Dates: Lexington and Louisville
  6. I’ll Be on the Patrick Phillips Show Tonight
  7. Nora Ephron
  8. Because I am the Biggest Idiot in the Entire Idiotic History of Idiocy
  9. My Exciting Life of Excitingness
  10. Off to NYC Once More
  11. Not Bored With Me Yet, Are You?
  12. What? I Am In An Airport Again? That’s Unpossible!
  13. The Effects of Tour Brain
  14. Running About Like a Crazed Squirrel Today
  15. Paul and Storm Have Made a Funny Video That is Funny For You Nerds
  16. I’m Traveling to Minneapolis Today, So Here’s The Replacements Covering “Cruella De Vil”
  17. This Weekend’s Adventures in Minneapolis
  18. How to Build a New York Times Bestseller (or Maybe Not)
  19. The Big Idea: Anne E. Johnson
  20. And Now, Some One Star Reviews of Redshirts
  21. It Is Time To Remind People That I Don’t Read Unpublished Works (Even Yours)
  22. Yikes
  23. The Now-Standard Post-Travel EMail Post (That’s Not Quite Yet Post-Travel)
  24. Dear Lansing: I Am Full of Anniversary Cake and Am Logy and Have Nothing Clever to Say at the Moment
  25. 17 Years
  26. A Day Off
  27. Dear Home: Tomorrow! I Am There!
  28. The Big Idea: Diana Peterfreund
  29. In Today’s Very Special Episode of The View From My Hotel Window
  30. Dear Boston: Hey, You’re in the Book!
  31. Redshirts #15 on NYT Hardcover Fiction List
  32. Dear Brooklyn: YOU DON’T SCARE ME
  33. The Big Idea: Robert McCammon
  34. Patrick Nielsen Hayden Explains eBook Territorial Rights For You
  35. Today’s Interesting Bit of Trivia
  36. Dear Burbank: A NOTE FROM THE FUTURE
  37. Redshirts One Week In
  38. And Now, Wil Wheaton Losing His Mind as the Kings Win the Stanley Cup
  39. Dear Pasadena: I Promise I Won’t Be Sticky This Time
  40. Mark Reads “Shadow War of the Night Dragons”
  41. Pictures from Yesterday
  42. The Big Idea: Rhiannon Held
  43. Why Mary Robinette Kowal and I Should Not Be in the Same Vehicle of Any Sort
  44. Dear Milwaukee: Hey! Remember Me?
  45. Dear Chicago: I’M BACK, BABY.
  46. Houston, We Have No Problems
  47. Dear Houston: We’re About to Have a Blind Date
  48. The Big Idea: Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan
  49. Dear Cincinnati: Save Me From Abject and Total Humilation Tomorrow
  50. What Happens in the Acela Quiet Car Stays in the Acela Quiet Car, Unless Twitter is Involved
  51. Philadelphia in the Books
  52. Dear Dayton, Ohio: YOU ARE SO VERY NEXT
  53. On the Passing of Ray Bradbury: “Meeting the Wizard”
  54. The Big Idea: Warren Hammond
  55. And In a Fabulous Ending to the Day
  56. A Quick Followup to Today’s Redshirts Madness
  57. Three Reviews of RS
  58. What to Do If You Got a DRM’d Copy of Redshirts
  59. Reminder to Philadelphia: I AM COMING
  60. A Quick Bit of Customer Service re: Redshirts
  61. Redshirts: Now Out!
  62. Talking About Tor’s DRM-Free Policy
  63. The Big Idea: Leigh Bardugo
  64. Today’s View From a Hotel Window
  65. Bags: Packed
  66. Jonathan Coulton’s “Redshirt”: Get It Now For $1 (Cheap!)
  67. “Redshirt” by Jonathan Coulton – LIVE
  68. If We Were a Nerd Supergroup We’d Be, Like, Bad English
  69. The Delightfully Inevitable Fan Video of “Redshirt” Featuring Star Trek Redshirts
  70. The DRM Thing and Redshirts
  71. The Redshirts Pre-Release FAQ

May 2012

  1. The Sky Right Now
  2. Oh, And DOMA Ruled Unconstitutional
  3. And Here’s an Industrial Strength Woodchipper for You
  4. A Cool Million
  5. A Note About the Format of Redshirts
  6. Redshirts Reviews to Start Your Morning
  7. Possibly the Most Squeetastic Review I Will Ever Receive
  8. Dayton and College Graduates
  9. 7th Grade is Over. Now It is Time to Eat Frosting With a Spoon
  10. And Now My Favorite Track From the New Garbage Album
  11. The View From Today’s Workspace
  12. Some Administrivia Regarding The Site
  13. The Big Idea: Mark L. Van Name
  14. Redshirts Contest Winners, Reviews and So On and Such
  15. Introducing “Redshirt: The Theme to the Novel ‘Redshirts'” by Jonathan Coulton
  16. Redshirts at Wired’s GeekDad and GeekMom
  17. Planet JoCo Nears Its Climax
  18. The Class of ’12 Flings Their Caps Into the Air
  19. Graduation Song
  20. Musical Synchronicity, Of a Certain Miserable Sort
  21. DON’T GO INTO THE BASEMENT
  22. Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 Notes
  23. The Computers of Scalziland
  24. The Slowly Disintegrating Tree
  25. Redshirts Tour Chicago Area Stop: Please Register!
  26. The Redshirts Fan Art Contest Finalists: Vote For Your Favorite!
  27. The Big Idea: Catherine Lundoff
  28. The Prodigal Computer Returns
  29. Final Notes For “Lowest Difficulty Setting”
  30. Redshirts Coming to the UK
  31. Computer (and Other Stuff) Update: It’s Been Found! + ARC Giveaway
  32. Journey to Planet JoCo Still Alive + Reminder: New JoCo Song Coming in One Week!
  33. The Big Idea: Kim Stanley Robinson
  34. Writer Beware Wins Blogging Award
  35. “Lowest Difficulty Setting Follow-Up” Now on Kotaku + Comment on Comments
  36. The Temp Set Up
  37. My Last Few Days: A Quick Recap
  38. Nebula Awards Winners
  39. “Space Doggity” and “The Future Soon” Q&A at Tor.com
  40. Mass Author Signing (Including Me) At Hyatt Regency Crystal City, 5:30 to 7:30 TODAY
  41. The Big Idea: Michelle Sagara
  42. Because It Is About To Be Forwarded To Me a Million Times
  43. “Lowest Difficulty Setting” Now on Kotaku
  44. Journey to Planet JoCo at Tor.com
  45. “Lowest Difficulty Setting” Follow-Up
  46. Things That Pretty Much Suck
  47. Seriously, What the Hell
  48. A Child’s Treasury of Deletions
  49. Redshirts Back Cover, Library Journal Review, A Plea to Reviewers
  50. Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is
  51. The Big Idea: Garth Nix
  52. BuzzFeed Catches Up With What I’ve Been Saying For a Couple of Years Now
  53. “Being Poor” Excerpted in “The Rich and the Rest of Us”
  54. Happy Mother’s Day, 2012
  55. The Winner of My Non-US Redshirts ARC Giveaway
  56. The Big Idea: Joseph Nassise
  57. Still Life With Cat, Fuzzy and Redshirts
  58. Best Mutant Cookies Ever
  59. 43
  60. I’m Wrong Again and Happily So
  61. My Schadenfreude Phaser is Set to “Meh”
  62. Horse Sense From Indiana Senator Richard Lugar
  63. North Carolina and Amendment One
  64. The Big Idea: Mark Teppo
  65. The Final FilmCritic.com Column
  66. The Big Idea: Alethea Kontis
  67. Today’s Random Thing I Found in the Yard
  68. Various and Sundry, 5/7/12
  69. Dear Rest of the World That’s Not the USA: I Am Giving Away an ARC of Redshirts
  70. Tor/Forge Blog Giving Away Three Copies of Redshirts (US Only)
  71. Dave & Liz & Chicago Save the World: An Exclusive Short Story for Chicon 7 Members
  72. Almost Certain to Be My Next Author Photo
  73. Quick Election 2012 Update: I Got Nothing
  74. “Ask Me Another” Debuts Today
  75. A Quick Plug for 4th Street Fantasy Convention
  76. Amanda Palmer, Kickstarter, and Everything
  77. The Big Idea: Paolo Bacigalupi
  78. ANNOUNCING: Redshirts Fan Art Contest, Top Prize $250 Entries Due 5/16
  79. The Big Idea: N.K. Jemisin
  80. 9 Scifi Films You Should See That You (Probably) Haven’t
  81. Me and Pat Rothfuss and Amber Benson and Felicia Day Talk About Characters For Roughly an Hour
  82. The Redshirts Tour: Places, Dates and Times
  83. The Big Idea: Arthur Salm
  84. It’s Not the First of May Without Jonathan Coulton

April 2012

  1. May/June Big Idea Update
  2. Barnes & Noble & Microsoft
  3. My New Toy, 4/30/12
  4. And Now, My Penguicon Guest of Honor Bio
  5. Traveling Home
  6. I’m Busy Today, So To Keep You Amused, Here’s a Clip of Me on Oprah in 1996
  7. Industrial Toys and Me
  8. View From the Hotel Window, Dearborn Edition
  9. Redshirts ARC Winner + Other RS News
  10. The Big Idea: Chuck Wendig
  11. And That’s How We Finally Found Jimmy Hoffa
  12. I’m Giving Away an ARC of Redshirts, April 25th Edition
  13. Prognosticating the Summer SF Movie Hits & Misses
  14. Redshirts eBook to Be DRM-Free From Day One
  15. Tor/Forge to Go DRM-Free By July: Immediate Thoughts
  16. The Big Idea: Suzanne Johnson
  17. Of Interest Primarily to Norwegians
  18. Cat, Computer, Cola
  19. Sunday at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
  20. Saturday at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
  21. Away For the Day
  22. My Day at Webb
  23. Quick Note to Everyone Waiting to Be Scheduled for May/June Big Ideas
  24. The Big Idea: Justin Jordan
  25. There’s Something On the Wing
  26. My Los Angeles Times Festival of Books Schedule
  27. Your Kickstarter Promotion Thread
  28. Happy Birthday, Kristine
  29. Speaking of My FilmCritic.com Column…
  30. Killer Films, Jedi and Battleship
  31. Tax Day Sunset
  32. The Big Idea: Bradley P. Beaulieu
  33. Whatever: Now With Extra Added Comment Preview
  34. Starred Review of Redshirts in Booklist
  35. Head’s Up Re: Kickstarter Promotion Thread on Wednesday
  36. Catching People Up On What I’m Writing
  37. DRM On My Books
  38. And Now, An Insight Into One Writer’s Brain
  39. Saturday Is For Things and Stuff
  40. Your Weekend Reading: The 2012 Short Story Hugo Nominees
  41. The Big Idea: A.M. Dellamonica
  42. In Which I Decline a Nerd Fight
  43. My Thoughts on Book Tours
  44. That Ann Romney Thing
  45. Dear Consumers Who Apparently Think the Current Drama Surrounding eBooks is Like a Football Game
  46. Daisy in the Yard
  47. Look! A Spontaneous Podcast!
  48. Reminder: I’m Guest of Honor at Penguicon in Two Weeks
  49. And Now, Perhaps the Most Important Poll You’ll Take All Day
  50. Macmillan CEO on the Justice Department Suit Against Macmillan, Apple, et al
  51. The Big Idea: Lynne M. Thomas
  52. The Aliens’ Film Festival
  53. Sunset 4/10/12
  54. Santorum’s Out: Have a Thread to Talk About It
  55. The Big Idea: Mary Robinette Kowal
  56. Redshirts Chapters 1 – 4 Now Out in eBook Form
  57. Participatory Thread: New Music
  58. Hugo News For Those Coming In Late
  59. It’s Easter
  60. Hugo Nomination Thoughts, 2012
  61. The Hugo Award Nominees, 2012
  62. A Cat and His Fuzzy (And Vice Versa)
  63. Catherynne Valente Lays Some Truth On You
  64. Your Friday Music
  65. What I Did With My Afternoon
  66. Scalzi Shakes His Cane At The Kids’ Music Today
  67. Warning: Objects May Be Dorkier Than They Appear in Photo
  68. The Big Idea: David J. Silbey
  69. This Year’s Dewey Donation System Charity Drive Is ON
  70. Now Even More Redshirts Excerpted For Your Delight + A Review
  71. Evil? Or the Victim of Pernicious Framing?
  72. Hugo Award Nominations to be Announced This Saturday, April 7, 4pm Eastern
  73. Caine’s Law is Out
  74. The Big Idea: Leah Bobet
  75. Hungarian Old Man’s War Cover
  76. Redshirts Audiobook News + Tabletop
  77. Win the Scalzi Tor Collection
  78. A Note of Appreciation for Madeleine Rosca
  79. THIS WILL NOT STAND
  80. My New Manga Series, Announced at Tor.com

March 2012

  1. My Library Event in Bradford
  2. Christopher Priest Appears in the Comments
  3. Fuzzy, Interrupted
  4. SFWA Members: Nebula Voting Ends TONIGHT at 11:59pm Pacific Time
  5. Quick Christopher Priest Follow Up
  6. The Movie Junkies and Plagiarism: Follow Up
  7. Ask Papa Fuzzy Anything: Genders, Pets, Humans and Wil Wheaton
  8. The Big Idea: Helen Lowe
  9. Christopher Priest Shouts at Clouds
  10. Athena and Her Tool For the Zombie Apocalypse
  11. Ask Papa Fuzzy Anything: Alien Probes, Paul & Storm, Movie Casting, Interspecies Erotica
  12. Dear The Movie Junkies: Plagiarism is Still Not Cool
  13. The Big Idea: Elizabeth Bear
  14. John Carter and Hunger Games: The Postmortems
  15. Bud Webster: Recipient of the 2012 Service to SFWA Award
  16. Dude. Whoa.
  17. Ask Papa Fuzzy Anything: Fur, Ewoks, Immigration, Hands
  18. The Big Idea: Anne Lyle
  19. Today is Fuzzy Nation Paperback Release Day!
  20. Redshirts Sneak Preview at Tor.com
  21. Redshirts ARC Giveaway at My Bradford Library Event This Saturday
  22. Ask Papa Fuzzy Anything: Intro
  23. Reader Request Week 2012: Recap
  24. Sunset, 3/24/12
  25. And Now, the Taiwanese Cover to Old Man’s War
  26. The New Phone
  27. Reader Request Week 2012 #9: Writery Short Bits
  28. Reader Request Week 2012 #8: Short Bits
  29. Reader Request Week 2012 #7: My Complete Lack of Shame
  30. Yes, You May Reprint “A Doctor on Transvaginal Ultrasounds”
  31. Zeus, Apparently Stoned, Comments on My New Tech
  32. A Doctor on Transvaginal Ultrasounds: Now on Jezebel
  33. Reader Request Week 2012 #6: The Cool Kids Hanging Out
  34. The Big Idea: Stina Leicht
  35. Hey, Wanna Picture of a Dog?
  36. Reader Request Week 2012 #5: Them Crazies What Live in the Woods
  37. Reader Request Week 2012 #4: Future Doorknobs or Lack Thereof
  38. WordPress Apparently Messing With Commenting Ability
  39. YA Lit and Science Fiction and Fantasy Films
  40. And Now the Reverse Angle
  41. Today is a Good Day For A Sunset Picture
  42. Reader Request Week 2012 #3: Why I’m Glad I’m Male
  43. Guest Post: A Doctor on Transvaginal Ultrasounds
  44. The Big Idea: Nick Harkaway
  45. Spring is Here, Spring is Here
  46. Reader Request Week 2012 #2: Would I Lie to You?
  47. Reader Request Week 2012 #1: Snark and Insult
  48. Today’s Picky Language Question
  49. Internet is Down at the Scalzi Compound
  50. I Have To Go Get My Head Drilled By a Dentist, So Here’s Mandy Moore Covering Joan Armatrading
  51. GAAAH THIS SONG IS IN MY HEAD AND THE ONLY WAY TO GET IT OUT OF MINE IS TO PUT IT IN YOURS
  52. The Big Idea: Peadar Ó Guilín
  53. Octavia Butler and John Clute the Recipients of SFWA’s Solstice Award
  54. Reader Request Week 2012: Get Your Requests In!
  55. Movie Math and Science Fiction Films
  56. A Quick Review of Myself on “Alien Encounters”
  57. The Big Idea: Lissa Price
  58. I’m Doing a Library Event in Bradford, March 31
  59. See Me On Television This Tuesday
  60. I’ve Apparently Invented the Word “Assnard”
  61. Last Two Days to Nominate for the Hugos
  62. Tor is Looking for a Senior Publicist
  63. It’s Hat Day At School
  64. What Does a SFWA Election Ballot Look Like?
  65. The Big Idea: Seanan McGuire
  66. The Collusion Case Against Publishers
  67. Speech and Kirk Cameron
  68. Lopsided Cat Would Like to Welcome You to Whatever’s 7,000th Post
  69. He’s Not Winning, He’s Just Not Losing
  70. The Big Idea: E.C. Myers
  71. Red Planet, Red Ledger
  72. How Red Shirts Are Like Bacon
  73. The Big Idea: James Renner
  74. Tomorrow’s Ohio Primary
  75. Working Schedule Activated
  76. Going to Comic-Con
  77. Scalzi in Italian
  78. Oh, Hey
  79. The Sky, Morning and Afternoon
  80. Nebula Award Voting Open + Nebula Voters’ Packet
  81. The Big Idea: Chris Gerrib
  82. Andrew Breitbart, RIP
  83. That’s Eight
  84. 24 Frames Into the Future: Now for Sale via NESFA Press
  85. This Evening’s Political/Philosophical Question

February 2012

  1. The Big Idea: Walter Jon Williams
  2. Turkish OMW Cover
  3. Oscar and China Thoughts
  4. Cudo Stupidity Followup
  5. Birthday Song
  6. SFWA Is Redirecting Amazon Links From Its Site
  7. The Big Idea: Chad Orzel
  8. Genuinely the Stupidest Thing I Have Seen on the Internet in a Very Long Time
  9. My Day
  10. Outgoing SFWA VP Mary Robinette Kowal Endorses Rachel Swirsky For VP
  11. The Lifespan of a Silly Argument
  12. 2012 Oscar Prediction Post Addendum
  13. Why It’s Nice to Live in a Small Town
  14. Oh, Hey, a Redshirts Giveaway From Tor.com
  15. E-Mail Note + General Status Update
  16. The Big Idea: Robert Jackson Bennett
  17. Offline Today
  18. Shadow War of the Night Dragons Wins Tor.com’s 2011 Readers’ Choice Award
  19. China, Hollywood, 3D
  20. Boskone, Briefly
  21. Fuzzy Nation and Agent to the Stars: Audie Nominated
  22. This Year’s Nebula Awards Nominations
  23. Michael Blauser, 1945 – 2012
  24. Sunday Update
  25. Boskone Update, Saturday
  26. Not Being Able to Scrape By With $200k Is Usually Your Own Fault
  27. The New Book: 24 Frames Into the Future
  28. The Obligatory Picture Out the Hotel Window, Boston Style (+ Boskone Schedule)
  29. The Big Idea: Bruce Schneier
  30. It’s the Little Details That Mean a Lot
  31. Why You Will Never Be Rid of Star Wars
  32. A Song Appropriate For the Day
  33. Big Idea Submissions Update
  34. Playing With Camerabag 2
  35. The Big Idea: Stephen Deas
  36. Quick Capricon Recap
  37. Reminder to SFWA Members: Nominate for the Nebulas
  38. Not Dead
  39. How the Dance Went
  40. Redshirts Auction for Con or Bust
  41. Last Minute 80s Dance Music Suggestions: Hit Me With Your Best Shot
  42. Clearly, This Must Be My Next Author Photo
  43. Final Breast Cancer Screening/Education Tally
  44. The Big Idea: Matt Ruff
  45. Proof I Am a Complete Sadistic Bastard
  46. Congratulations, Washington
  47. The Return of Con or Bust
  48. Agnosticism Without Pain
  49. The Santorum Solution
  50. The Chronicle of a Super Bowl Weekend Success
  51. Let’s End the Whatever Programming Day With a Picture of a Cat
  52. Proposition 8 Overturned
  53. The Business Case Against Karen Handel
  54. The Big Idea: Saladin Ahmed
  55. In Which Author Nick Harkaway Sits For An Interview of a Very Specific Type, or, What Authors Use Twitter For
  56. Science Fiction and Fantasy Fans: Suggest Your Nominees, Please
  57. Three Musical Prompts for Your Monday
  58. Signed ARC of Redshirts: Now Part of Pat Rothfuss’ Worldbuilders Fundraiser
  59. Romney and the LDS Church
  60. Susan G. Komen — Blinking?
  61. Things I Like: Frost Shadows
  62. Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, I Will Be In You
  63. The Big Idea: Rod Rees
  64. EBooks for Breast Cancer Screening and Education
  65. The Difference a Year Makes
  66. SFWA Delists Dorchester Publishing
  67. Rachel Swirsky Announces for SFWA VP
  68. Science Fiction Film For When You Can’t Sleep

January 2012

  1. Portland! You Have a SFWA Reading TONIGHT! Seattle, TOMORROW!
  2. The Big Idea: Myke Cole
  3. Jonathan Franzen Shakes His Fist at the Clouds, Especially the Virtual Ones
  4. A Small Meditation on Art, Commerce and Impermanence
  5. OMW in Turkish
  6. Writer, Professional, Good
  7. Cory Booker Gets It Right
  8. Today’s Interesting Commercial Discovery
  9. Single Serving Scalzi
  10. I Am Running For SFWA President (Again) (Again)
  11. She’s At It Again
  12. Old Man’s War Goes to Italy
  13. Athena Experiences Complete Moral Outrage at the Merest Suggestion of Insincerity
  14. 2012 Oscar Noms: Not Great For SF/F
  15. The Oscar Prediction Post, 2012
  16. Redshirts, In ARC Form
  17. Today’s Ass-Covering Statement
  18. Warrants? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’… Oh, Wait, We Do
  19. Confusion Convention Recap
  20. Various and Sundry, 1/23/12
  21. Presenting the Legendary Licked Book of Epic Confusion
  22. Back From Confusion
  23. An Enigmatic Update For You to Puzzle Over
  24. Your “I’m Traveling, So Fill My Site With Content” Thread (i.e., Promote Yourself and/or Others)
  25. I’d Rather Listen to This Than the Original
  26. It’s My Fault For Reading It But Then the Writer is Not Blameless Either
  27. Quick Political Notes, 1/19/12
  28. Today’s Cool Thing
  29. In What I’m Sure Will Be Considered an Ironic Act By Some
  30. Athena Encounters the Technology of the Ancients
  31. On SOPA/PIPA (For the People Who Aren’t Blacked Out)
  32. You Know, For Kids
  33. Something on Which George Lucas and I Agree
  34. Five Easy Steps to Enjoying Starship Troopers, The Movie
  35. The Big Idea: Michele Lang
  36. Andrew Sullivan Posits a Hypothesis To Make Everyone Of Every Political Stripe Hate Him
  37. In Which I Read Something Well In Advance and Then Tease You With It
  38. Connie Willis: Grand Master
  39. The Sagan Diary Giveaway at Epic Confusion + My Epic Confusion Schedule
  40. Huntsman Done
  41. Whoa, Five O’Clock Already
  42. Saturday Music For You
  43. P s
  44. How Extraordinarily Subtle Online Self-Promotion Is Done
  45. Help Out Diane Duane (And Get A Cool Book or Two)
  46. The Big Idea: Daniel O’Malley
  47. I’m DJing a Dance at Capricon XXXII, or, BWA HA HA HA HA HAH HA
  48. Clarion Workshop: Now Accepting Applications for 2012
  49. Tor.com Reader’s Choice Awards: Nominations Open!
  50. Fantasy Films 2012 and (Separately) 3D
  51. Finally, Something From Facebook Worth Posting
  52. How I Feel About New Hampshire
  53. The Big Idea: Marissa Meyer
  54. Good Morning, Moon
  55. This Would Be Difficult To Do With eBooks
  56. I Has a Duh
  57. One Additional Thing For You to Consider For a Hugo, Not From Me
  58. Today is a Day to Spend Mostly Away From Teh IntarWeebs
  59. From a Universe in Which Ukuleles Drop, Semi-Randomly, From the Sky
  60. In Which I Meet Some Authors
  61. The Titanic Meeting of Two Old Gods
  62. The Big Idea: Sarah Prineas
  63. SF/F Authors/Editors/Artists/Fans 2012 Award Awareness Post
  64. The Mac Air as a Tool For Writing
  65. Iowa Thoughts In Haiku
  66. NewBookIn Twitter Feed Resuming
  67. The Big Idea: Stephen Blackmoore
  68. Gut Reaction to the 2012 Science Fiction Film Slate
  69. I Find It Appalling There Are No Google Results For “Conan the Gozerian”
  70. Comment Moderation Note Re: The Spam Queue
  71. Convention Appearance: Epic Confusion
  72. The 2012 Award Pimpage Post
  73. Iowa Caucuses: Seriously, Man, Who Knows, Right?
  74. The Office Desk, 2012
  75. What is This Salt Mine, and Why Do I Have to Go Back Into It?
  76. And Now, With the Advent of the New Year, I Can Finally Reveal My Most Recent Secret Project
  77. The Following is a True Fact
  78. And Yes
  79. Station Identification: Whatever

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