No pics for this one but a couple of other things I almost forgot...

• I was surprised to come across Peter S. Beagle in a booth in the (absolutely huge, so big we only it made it down two aisles) Vendor's room, selling books; I guess a new edition of The Last Unicorn is coming out soon and they were taking pre-orders for it. He looked dead tired ( Read more... )

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Well, we hadn't been to Anime Expo since it was in Long Beach, and they did have a BOGO for kids tickets. So, remembering how well going to listen to Green Day worked out, we parked in Long Beach and took the train up to the Convention Center. Some day I will actually get to some panels, but we always seem to do mostly people watching, and boy ( Read more... )

Looked at my cruise entries and realized they posted out of order - I didn't think I sent them that way, but that's how they showed up. As soon as I get my pics organized, I'll add them to those entries if you'd like to backtrack ( Read more... )

I found Neil Gaiman's entry today, about his daughter Maddy, quite touching. Because that is exactly why I started this journal.

http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/2006/12/replacing-something-that-doesnt-exist.html

"... in a few ( Read more... )

The Last Unicorn remains one of my best-loved books, since a favorite English teacher in high school gave me a copy. By turns, touching, tragic and humorous (how could it not be, with a clumsy wizard named Schmendrick), I loved the language and all the little cultural references for the time it was written the author tossed in - which I wonder if ( Read more... )

I'm starting to think it's a curse if Neil Gaiman mentions your site. I've been trying to check out the teapot site he linked a couple of days ago and it's still crashed for exceeding bandwidth. Poor guy.

Hmm, PH at work has been reading Collapse by Jared Diamond and says it's very good. This lecture is actually free; usually they're $5 even for members.

http://www.aquariumofpacific.org/NEWS_EVENTS/05_05/collapse.html

So Neil Gaiman posts some pictures of himself and the fans respond ( Read more... )

If you're a member of Pharyngula, you can just scroll on past this entry.

For those who aren't, this is an absolutely lovely bit of science writing, on par with Rachel Carson or the Carls (Sagan or Safina), in my humble opinion.

Oh, and an ode to sea hares. I love sea hares. Look, they're in my interest list No, they're not - nudibranchs, but ( Read more... )