I'm sitting in the airport terminal waiting for my flight back home. It was a good trip. My family is awesome. We sampled sushi, went on an ocean beach adventure, played in the surf, saw sea lions, browsed a Chinese market and ate some authentic Chinese fare, went shopping, and saw lots and lots of hippies. I also did some of my usual things: ( Read more... )

Oh hey, I've got a column in this week's Echo. So ... read it.

A concept I find rather troublesome at the bookstore where I work is that of the African-American lit section ( Read more... )

Scientists decode the Oxyrynchus Papyri

Excerpt:Now, in a breakthrough described as the classical equivalent of finding the holy grail, Oxford University scientists have employed infra-red technology to open up the hoard, known as the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, and with it the prospect that hundreds of lost Greek comedies, tragedies and epic poems will ( Read more... )