Monthly Archives: June 2011

Kage Baker was born on June 10. In 1952. Today she would have been 59. Now, that’s fantasy for you. No one ever expects to get that old or imagines what it will feel like – at least, no one … Continue reading →

Kage Baker was intimately, personally familiar with the concept of herd immunity. She also knew that, statistically, someone in the herd will catch none of whatever plagues are going around – someone else will catch all of them. The majority … Continue reading →

Kage Baker, as must be pretty obvious by now, really liked free-range strangeness. She was a connoisseuse, a collector, a delighted vector for tales of High Weirdness. Like gossip, she was happy enough just to hear of it and not … Continue reading →

Kage Baker liked conspiracy theories. She didn’t believe in them – not many, anyway – she just liked them. The way she liked Warner Brothers cartoons, and Jack In The Box commercials; the way she liked funny video shows.  They … Continue reading →

Kage Baker had a particular fondness for WWII soldiers (Daddy was one). And she had a particular horror of that war as well. I’m not sure why. Neither was she. But footage of the European Theatre, in particular, upset her … Continue reading →

Kage Baker was a morning person. Despite a fondness for sleeping in on weekends – and who gets through grammar and high school without developing that? – she was by nature a solar and diurnal person. When she was little, … Continue reading →

Kage Baker flat out loved robots. They fascinated her, to the point where she would argue over points of classical science fiction robot lore – she thought Asimov’s Three Laws were dreadful, and immoral to enforce against thinking beings. She … Continue reading →

Kage Baker, as I have noted before, did not drive. She thus had a passenger’s viewpoint of the DMV and traffic enforcement; although, as a passenger utterly dependent on other people having cars, she had a pretty jaundiced view of … Continue reading →

Kage Baker was fascinated with cryptids. Those are things – usually animals, sometimes people or plants – who are mythical: but who very well might be real. There are a respectable number of beasties presumed to be totally legendary, who … Continue reading →

Kage Baker loved the month of June. It was her birthday month, which was a big, big draw, of course. It was also the month school let out for the summer, which was a rhythm so instilled in her during … Continue reading →