Christopher Barzak

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Monkey Majik

I ran across this song of the day at NPR’s website today. It’s a song by a band in Sendai, Japan called “Monkey Majik”, two white brothers from Canada who went to Japan to teach English and stayed, and two Japanese members. They’re apparently getting pretty popular in Japan. It’s a blend of pop and hip… Read more

February 8, 2007
Nippon Worldcon

Does anyone have plans to go to Japan’s Worldcon this summer? Read more

February 8, 2007
Potential blurbs?? (Updated)

I happened to stumble into myspace’s professor grading system and was laughing at some of the report cards student have given some of my old professor’s until I realized I could possibly be on this site too. Suddenly panicked, I searched for my name, and sure enough it was listed. I have no worries, though. … Read more

February 7, 2007
The Astronaut’s Rival

Oh. my. god. I cannot believe how ridiculously absurd this story is. I mean, I know it’s serious and all, someone apparently driving 1000 miles in diapers so she wouldn’t have to stop and go to the bathroom in order to get to her victim’s house on time, but the steel mallet? the buck knife? the BB… Read more

February 6, 2007
Stupid dies as stupid does

No matter what rights there may be to do something like this, I can’t help but intuitively feel it’s criminal, what the AEI (American Enterprise Institute) has done: offered money to scientists to undermine the U.N.’s assessment that global climate change is in a radical, dangerous state, mostly due to the human activity called industry,… Read more

February 2, 2007
23 Small Disasters

News came yesterday that a hypertextual flash fiction project called “23 Small Disasters” created by myself, Elad Haber, Greg van Eekhout, Meghan McCarron, Tim Pratt, Benjamin Rosenbaum (who conceived the idea), and Kiini Ibura Salaam was sold to Ideomancer, where it will serve as an entire month’s issue. Way cool. I’m excited to see what people will make of it. Read more

February 1, 2007