Best word made up by one of my (college) students today, and used in an essay: awestrickening

Best use of eco-activist pseudo-hippies in a 1960s-era sci-fi program(me): Doctor Who, "The Green Earth" (I shit you not, they were also genius scientists, and one of them was working on cultivating a mushroom that would have the texture and protein of ( Read more... )

No, I'm not going to analyze or discuss it. I'm just going to pat myself on the back for finishing a 900-page Victorian novel. Reading a chapter or two most nights before bed, it took me three months. Trufax. But it was fun; George Eliot is awesome ( Read more... )