Posted by Morgan Holmes on January 31st, 2009 There is no accounting for taste but I am still surprised by reviews and critical essays. I recently bought The Issue at Hand and More Issues at Hand by James Blish. Both of these books are collections of reviews-critical essays written under the pseudonym “William Atheling, Jr.” One essay called “Negative Judgement: Swashbungling, Serie sand Second-Guessing” ran in two fanzines in late 1953-early 1954. The target of the essay itself is a Poul Ander

This coming Tuesday, Feb. 3rd, is Blogroll Amnesty Day. Blue Gal, Skippy the Bush Kangaroo and Jon Swift have organized this event for the past three years. The object is for small blogs to link to other, even smaller blogs in an effort to raise the profile of all. It helps to have this triumvirate of bigger small blogs at the head of this line, to pump more Google juice into the whole process.Here are the rules, according to Skippy:the basic rule for blogroll amnesty day weekend is simply this:

Medeus, the king of the dragonkin, has been revived and is forming an alliance with a fearsome sorcerer named Gharnef. Together, they threaten to the throw the entire continent of Archanea back to an age of chaos and war. Now, it’s up to young Prince Marth and his small band of loyal followers to rise up and rally all those left.

For more than two hours on Thursday at the Nassau Coliseum, Metallica and its fans gladly imagined the band as it once was punishing, technically astonishing, relentless.

Ever since I first heard him sing on a TVB show on Astro about three years ago, I was pretty taken by his voice and his songs. At last, there’s a promising new star who could actually sing, as well as write pretty good music too!I have bought all his albums (except the latest), I have had the chances to watch him in concerts - his first solo in Malaysia as well as with other artistes or as guest artistes, and I have had the privilege to meet him and interview him during the course of my work as