I need to try and get to sleep soon, because we need to get an early start back to Providence in the morning. So, I'm doing this tonight. There was a heavy rain just after dark, and it's currently 69˚F. We're expecting thunderstorms later tonight. We'll be driving in rain tomorrow ( Read more... )

Cold here in Providence, currently 42˚F, with the windchill at 38˚F. There was sun when I woke, but it's gone now, and there's rain coming. I feel like I hardly slept last night, because I think that I hardly did.

Yesterday, I left the House for the first time in more than a week, and we went to the RISD Museum to see "Lines of Thought: Drawing ( Read more... )

Currently, it's 84˚F and partly cloudy here in Providence. Last night, I fell asleep to the sound thunder and to flashes of lightning. The high yesterday was 93˚F ( Read more... )

There were storms yesterday afternoon and into the night. Before sleep, I lay and listened to thunder rolling across the valley. Thunder and the whistles of trains passing through Leeds, two profoundly comforting sounds in the darkness, and the rain against the windows. Trying to focus on anything but grief and misgiving and regret, and the rain ( Read more... )

For me, "Dirty Old Town" will always be a song about Birmingham, Alabama, even if Birmingham, Alabama has no docks and no canals. Otherwise, the song is a dead ringer for the Birmingham I fell in love with. Of course, most people think it's a song about Dublin, Ireland, because of the Pogues' version. In truth, though, it's a song Ewan MacColl ( Read more... )

It's cloudy and there are snow showers on the way. I welcome them. I need the snow to smooth away the razor edges and hide the ugliness from my eyes. Currently, it's only 41˚F.

Today is the National Transgender Day of Remembrance, but I'm not sure what that means in Trump's America ( Read more... )

I think maybe the summer's heat has passed. The forecast for the remainder of this week is low eighties and seventies. Currently, it's only 81˚F.

And Tor has done their cover reveal thing for Agents of Dreamland. Please have a look. The novella will be out, in bookshops and online, February 28, 2017. Keep watching the skies. The cover is by the ( Read more... )

I wish I had something interesting to say about yesterday. But I didn't write. We went to the storage unit in Pawtucket and I sorted through papers from...well...my whole life, it felt like. looking for stuff that needs to go to Brown. I found my high-school porn stash, Playboy and Hustler from 1979 and 1980. Who the fuck keeps shit like that? I ( Read more... )

"Same birds that followed me to school when I was young ( Read more... )

Today on Facebook, someone brought up the subject on my working as a paleontologist. A few days back, I ran across this (below) online. The cover of the issue of The Mosasaur that included the last research paper I published: Kiernan, C. R., and Schwimmer, D. R. 2004. "First record of a velociraptorine theropod (Tetanurae, Dromaeosauridae) from the ( Read more... )