The TOC for The Best Horror of the Year #1 has been announced, and can be seen here along with the cover art. Still pretty damn pleased with my inclusion in this volume.
Also, I was working on my CV yesterday and searched for my name in Amazon so I could get the dates of a couple publications, and was quite surprised to see that my story “From the Mouths of Babes” that appeared in F&SF awhile back is mentioned a number of times in a book on feminist science fiction entitled Galactic Suburbia: Recovering Women’s Science Fiction. Quite cool.
I also saw that the YA book Stories from Songs: Ballads as Literary Fictions for Young Adults is also out, which features a detailed recap of my story “Black Jack Davy” along with some notes I wrote on how the various versions of the folk song helped inspire my writing of the story. Also cool.
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I watched chunks of the Champions League final yesterday and was more than a little pleased to see Man Ure flail against Barcelona. Remember the Man Ure team that was supposed to win everything? Yeah, well they ended up winning the World Club Cup (dubious), the League Cup (yawn), and the Premier League. Not to say they aren’t a great team but they’re also not even close to being the greatest of all time.
On the flip side, apropos of my post a few days ago, why isn’t the media going apeshit over Barcelona? They ripped through La Liga and did a treble of their own, winning the Copa del Rey and now the Champions League? For some reason, I sense a good many people feeling that Barcelona were the better team “on the night” as the saying goes. This would completely ignore the fact that Xavi, Iniesta, and Messi completely bamboozled the Man Ure midfield for at least an hour of the match, and Carlos Puyol devoured most of the attacks coming down the flank.
To underscore the stupidity of it all, Soccern*t’s main story today was Rio Ferdinand saying Man Ure will recover. If Man Ure had lost, do you really think the main story would be Carlos Puyol saying the same thing about Barcelona? No, it would be more fawning over SAF and commemorating Man Ure as the best team to ever play the game, ever ever.
Makes me want to puke.
Current Mood: Fine | 
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Worse yet, major news outlets in the U.S. can’t get something as simple as how many times Manchester United have won the league. From an article in the Wall Street Journal about the impact of global recession on the Premier League:
The league is home to England’s top-20 professional soccer clubs, a roster that includes icons such as Liverpool, Arsenal and three-time champion Manchester United — which, in a humbling result for English soccer, was beaten by 2-0 by Spain’s FC Barcelona in Wednesday night’s Champions League final.
This is just intolerable, both for the Journal and for fans. You can find this stuff out on Wikipedia. This is the same article that has been corrected once already after asserting that Newcastle won only five of 19 games on the season.