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Overheard
Student griping about Harper Lee's classic To Kill A Mockingbird: "That is the most racist book I have ever read!"
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In Memoriam: Philip Jose Farmer
As I wrote this morning, and as I guess a lot of people know now, Philip Jose Farmer passed away peacefully in his sleep this morning, at the age of 91 ( Read more... ) -
Why We're Not Getting A Digital Converter Box When We Only Have An Antenna
Short answer: We might use it, and we've got other things we'd rather be doing ( Read more... ) -
Freshly-Canned Links
More of my online reading from the past few days:
- Bart Simpson Voice Used To Promote Scientology. You know, considering that this is a religion started by a drug-addled guy who lied about half the details of his life, Bart Simpson as quasi-spokesperson seems incredibly appropriate.
- Great Bright Hope To End Battle Of The Light Bulbs. A ~$3 bulb ( Read more... )
- Bart Simpson Voice Used To Promote Scientology. You know, considering that this is a religion started by a drug-addled guy who lied about half the details of his life, Bart Simpson as quasi-spokesperson seems incredibly appropriate.
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Tonight's Campus Coffehouse
What I actually did at our Coffeehouse tonight was read three pages from Shenandoah--specifically, the British getting their butts whupped at the Battle of the Monongahela in 1755.
What I was really secretly regretting was that, as far as I know, there are no karaoke CDs with Tom Lehrer songs. -
Writerly And Readerly-As-A-Writer Thoughts
Writerly: For whatever reason, I've rarely had trouble with killing off characters in my books. I may feel a tad bit of personal regret, which I usually bury under What Is Best For The Story. Sometimes I even feel proud of myself if I think the death is written well.
But it's different with Shenandoah. I would chalk this up to the fact that I've ( Read more... ) -
Winter Literary Nesting
I started reflexively thinking about winter over the last couple of weeks thanks to some unseasonably cool days we had a fortnight or so back, and then a few days of cold rain last week. Consistently one of the things my brain does when it thinks about winter is wondering what books I'm going to get to hunker down through the season with ( Read more... ) -
Writing And Reading Stuff
- I got a message last night that my poem "The New Arrival's Examination" is going to be published in the Fall 2007 issue of Illumen. Woot! (This was a poem written the summer before last while proctoring, and inspired by, a very, very long computer skills assessment, or at least it felt that way--except in the poem's case the protagonist is a human ( Read more... )
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What's Bouncing Around In My Head Today
BOOKS IN PROGRESS: Justinian by "H.N. Turtletaub"; Rod Serling: The Dreams And Nightmares Of Life In The Twilight Zone, by Joel Engel. I was also trying to read All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, but couldn't get into it--seeing as how this is a play I should be able to try finding a video of it without feeling guilty.
HOUSE: I've hit a ( Read more... )
