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Battlestar Galactica is Over

Need I say that this post will contain spoilers? Cause it will.
Lots.
Let’s throw in some space. And some Jamie Bamber.

The finale would have been better if it had just been this image on the screen for 2 hrs. 11 min.
I agree with many of these opinions, so I’m not going to rehash them here. I’m [...]

21Mar2009 | Mur Lafferty | 14 comments | Continued
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Follow-up to Tuesday’s Suicide Girls post

Wow, Tuesday’s post about social networking and the link caused some discussion! I want to bring up a couple of points.
SG was chosen because it was on my mind, but it was a poor example as you have to register with the site to be able to comment. It doesn’t change the fact that [...]

8Jan2009 | Mur Lafferty | 5 comments | Continued
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My Suicide Girls column, and the problem with social networking

My latest Suicide Girls column is live. This one has some bad words and talks about erotica, so I am lifting my usual “the site isn’t safe for work but the column is” statement.
And I’m very pleased with this one. I planned this for several weeks, thinking about what I’d say, how I’d write it. [...]

6Jan2009 | Mur Lafferty | 19 comments | Continued
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The real War of Northern Aggression

I live in an urban pocket of North Carolina- the Raleigh-Durham area. I was born in NC, went to UNC-Chapel Hill, and still live here. Now that Jesse Helms is no longer in office (and, indeed, dead) I can feel a tad prouder of my home (and it looks like we might skew blue for [...]

29Oct2008 | Mur Lafferty | 27 comments | Continued
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Endorsing Obama

Scott Sigler has been challenging people on Twitter to tell him why to vote FOR Obama instead of AGAINST McCain or the Bush administration. I suck at debate, so I don’t enter these discussions, but it’s been making me think. Why do I want to vote for Obama?
First, I vote democratic 99% of the time. [...]

26Oct2008 | Mur Lafferty | 8 comments | Continued
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Take a moment and ask yourself why…

I struggled with whether to post this here or at I Should Be Writing, but I figure this isn’t about writing, this is about dealing with readers/listeners. I wonder if I should be posting it at all, but I also worry that Twitter didn’t allow me to express myself fully enough last night. So I [...]

15Oct2008 | Mur Lafferty | 28 comments | Continued
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Belated response to Helix kerfuffle

July has been a blur, what with the sewer line backing up, very expensive repairs, attempts to redo a bathroom ourselves, a cancelled vacation, house guests and a birthday party.
Because I’ve been blogging more for other sites (I will blog about MINE soon), not to mention my Suicide Girls column, I’m finally caught up with [...]

3Aug2008 | Mur Lafferty | 9 comments | Continued
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Burning Bridges

The concept of “burning bridges” has been fascinating to me because it’s such a complex social construct. It’s not just the simple act of doing something that severs contact with another party, damaging the relationship so it’s irreparable. There’s a lot of social hierarchy and power involved.
When I was at Red Storm, I had an [...]

17Jul2008 | Mur Lafferty | 14 comments | Continued
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Update on The Takeover and NfP

The Takeover has NOT podfaded! I went on vacation last week and then my computer had a hard crash and I lost all the stuff I’ve worked on in the past 2 weeks, including the script for episode 4. So I’m working on it as fast as I can.
The good news is that I have [...]

2Jul2008 | Mur Lafferty | 1 comment | Continued
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Letters

When I think about the random things that shaped my childhood, I fear interacting with the Pink Tornado, because I worry an idle comment from me will affect her forever.
When I was in kindergarten, we had posterboards that anthropomorphized letters. The consonants were male, the vowels and Y were female (that always pissed me off.) [...]

24Jun2008 | Mur Lafferty | 8 comments | Continued
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