I recently finished up another exercise in Chaucerin’ some speculative fiction, which is good news. The bad news is that I’m having trouble trying to record it. I don’t know squat about how to do it properly, and I have to rely on the cheap-o microphones that have come with my …
Driving home from a lovely picnic today, we passed one of those sign-boards in front of a little Christian church. You know, the ones with the movable type on which someone spells out some sort of brief, thought-provoking message that’s intended to pump up the church-going crowd? I think they’re …
Back in June I wrote about the odd communication I received from the editors of a Prestigious Journal to which I’d submitted my most recent Tolkien article. I’ve now heard back officially, and it seems my hypothesis was pretty accurate: they sent the piece to two readers, one of whom …
I don’t care who you are, you have to admit that this is cool. I mean, that’s an image of a single molecule, showing the lattice structure of the atomic bonds. It’s boggling. Next thing we know they’re going to be getting shots of individual electrons caught in their quantum …
So yesterday I got an unexpected gift: a lengthy comment on my post about the Media Mythologies Surrounding the Jay Cutler Saga. I’m quite certain the commenter, Dale, did not intend for me to be smiling as much as I was when I reached the end of what he wrote — …