I have always aspired to do an audiobook. I listen to them a lot, and I love to read aloud, so I thought it would be fun to do one sometime. Yesterday, I got a little taste of what it would be like.

I made arrangements with some friends over at WESB in Bradford to use their production studio to record chapter one of The Last Days of Stonewall ( Read more... )

I am once again playing the role of Santa Claus on WESB this year. It brought me a lot of joy last year, despite the hectic time of the semester and everything going on with grad school, so when they asked if I would do it again this year, I was glad to accept the gig. I was worried, though, because I have to be out of town for a week in early ( Read more... )

Got a lot of grading done today and then, to my delight, got a couple pieces written tonight that've been hanging over my head for a while. It was nice to get those knocked out. I'll be posting them over the next couple of days: one is a review of a book I read over the summer called Demon Fish, about the overexploitation of sharks, and another a ( Read more... )

Steph asked me the other day if I might be able to get her hooked up to do some voice-over work on the radio. As it happened, I had to go to the radio station in Bradford--WESB-AM--that very day, so I told her I'd ask. The news director is a long-time friend, and she's known Steph for years, and she was delighted to hear Steph was interested ( Read more... )

A great story from Prairie Home Companion about a joke about some penguins.

"I myself am capable of grandeur. Who says I'm not?"

Jolly Old Saint Nicholas...Kris Kringle...Father Christmas...Santa Claus.

Few characters are as recognizable as the patron saint of Christmas. ( Read on, Macduff. )

“Bah! Humbug ( Read more... )

It was fifty-two years ago, in 1957, that one of modern literature’s favorite holiday characters made his first appearance ( Read more... )

Today marks the winter solstice-the shortest day of the year. The earth, tipping on its axis, begins to tip in the other direction. The arc of the sun across the sky is at its lowest, but with the tip, the sun will begin to climb higher and higher again ( Read more... )

To celebrate the birth of Christ, Francis of Assisi decided to recreate the manger scene in a hillside cave near Greccio, Italy. The year was around twelve-twenty ( Read more... )