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A twice-former student of mine from my University of Rochester days, Tina Tsao, sent along notice of an article in the New York Times comparing the actions of a squirrel in right field of the Yankees’ 5-3 victory over the Red Sox Tuesday night to the figure of Ratatosk in Norse mythology.
This is brilliant stuff, […]

I wrote a short story last night, a Science Fiction piece centering on curbing global greenhouse emissions by changing our diet. As usual, I coughed and handwaved my way through anything that required actual numbers or figures, like the number of cattle on the planet or how many million tons of Methane they fart (sorry, […]

What does a medievalist do, exactly? Is there more to it than brandishing swords at cowering students?
Well of course there is. (Sadly?) And while things like discovering European maps of the New World that pre-date Columbus sound pretty exciting, much of my life as an academic medievalist is spent in libraries, hunting […]

Had high hopes to get much work done this weekend, but all was shot by parties in need of appearing, cars in need of researching, emails in need of answering, and hobbits in need of attending. So little was accomplished.
Oh, and I lost a solid half-hour of worktime at one point trying to figure out […]

My Chaucer’d Scalzi made a fair bit of noise hereabouts last week, and many folks have written to ask for a bit more. In craven heat for such attention, I could hardly wait to do another. The question was, what to Chaucer?
Several kind readers made several kind suggestions — and one unkind one — but […]

I don’t know how the cadets feel about it, but I’m excited. And they seem a decent lot — not that one can tell much in the first couple weeks.
I’m teaching three official courses this term: two sections of 101 (MWF 10-11 and 11-12) and one of 203 (MWF 9-10). I’m also teaching a […]

As can be seen from the progress meters at left, one of my current on-the-burner projects is a novel about Caesarion, the child of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar. The opening prologue of this novel takes place at Caesar’s “country” villa across the Tiber from Rome, where Caesarion and his mother were in residence when […]

Spent part of the afternoon in my office at work, polishing up my weapons. (The cadets are about to return to campus, you know.)
Anyway, I was in the midst of working on my sword — a beautiful battle-ready replica of the supposed sword of the Black Prince — when it struck me that perhaps, just […]

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