I realized I haven't posted much lately. Hard to be encouraging when Voldemort seems so intent on just burning everything down.

Sigh.

Anyway, I went on vacation last week: had some great meals, saw some friends & family, and saw the Chicago production of Hamilton! Which was awesome. Just, really full of energy and its own slightly-varying ( Read more... )

1. I spent much of the weekend rereading Barbara Hambly's Darwath trilogy, which for a freshman effort is still really good. She creates a vivid world, a ton of unique and interesting characters, believable political tensions, a strong plot, and a truly spooky and terrifying enemy. (I will go to my grave convinced that whoever wrote the ( Read more... )

Vonnie & Laura & all the other Sarah Connor Chronicles fans might like to hear that Josh Friedman has a new show lined up.

... it's a new Wizard of Oz series.

Err, yay? I think?

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In other news, hmm. I finally saw Catching Fire and it made a lot more sense than the book did. And there's a good chance I will have seen more than 50% of the ( Read more... )

Fascinating story about the market for single leaves from rare or antique books. And here's a more detailed account (with pictures) from an antiquarian.

This looks like a tasty vegetarian soup. (Which I will probably make with chicken stock and/or chicken sausages…)

Noted for later: The Irish clan behind Europe's rhino-horn theft epidemic. Doesn ( Read more... )

Fans of Code Name Verity specifically, and WWII-era dramas generally, might find it worthwhile to check out Wish Me Luck, a 1988 British drama about two women who go into France with the SOE. One of them, a young woman of French & Jewish extraction, is called, in fact, Matty. She's not a pilot, though, but a radio operator ( Read more... )

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Check out some awesome suffragists a century ago. I'm impressed at how fashionable so many of them look. I know those clothes were probably a bear to wear & maintain, but they look fabulous.

You find some of the best writing in sports, I really think you do. Runners World profiles Debbie Heald, who 40 years ago did something nobody had ever done ( Read more... )

So, vidders: what's the word on Cory Doctorow's Pirate Cinema, in which a young man uses the power of remix to save the world? (Apparently you can download the book for free at the above link.)

Connie Britton's new show Nashville starts tonight, and it's being heralded as the best show of the new television season.

Nobel prizes in quackpottery, ( Read more... )

Well, the brief hot weather blitz is over: we're back to fog again. My sinuses appreciate it, but I'm kind of sad, because we never really got a real summer. This is the first year since I moved to the Bay Area that I never needed to get the fan out of storage.

On the other hand, great news for the East Bay!One of the hazards of Kickstarter ( Read more... )

Despite having Saturday off completely to do useful things like laundry and yard work, it's been a pretty stressful weekend.

So here, I think it's too much of a Monday not to share this good news story about a heroic high school runner.

Bad Archaeology has a story on the pseudoscience behind some claims of preColombian Old World settlers in the ( Read more... )