I promised to post a reminder about this. So. Tomorrow (or today, if you're reading this on Saturday...you know, I've never really thought about the ways in which blogging constitutes time-travel in its own right...I should think about this some more and post an entry some time. Where was I? Oh, yeah:) is Pretend To Be A Time-Traveler Day, which we ( Read more... )

So this kind of made my morning:

Queen guitarist Brian May named next chancellor of Liverpool John Moores UniversityI love that, after riding the insane wave of Queen's success, he goes back to school and gets a PhD. It's like when David Lee Roth just went out and became an EMT. I love this kind of stuff ( Read more... )

Surfing the friendslist, I came upon this excellent short post by amberdulen. In the comments of which, I found the link to this NPR article which treats of this truly awesome proposition:

December 8th is Pretend You're a Time-Traveler Day!

Some of my favorite suggestions for how to play the Time-Traveler angle:

- Walk up to random people and say "WHAT ( Read more... )

Douglas Wilson writes about contentmentThis link was just what I needed to see today ( Read more... )

Just finished reading Inside Job by Connie Willis (it's free online right now because it's up for a Hugo). It's about two reporters for a "debunker" magazine in a near future wherein spiritualism, mediums, auras and tarot cards have made a comeback in popularity to beat the Victorian era. It's funny, clever, and told with Willis's effortless skill ( Read more... )

Aaand the award for Written Work Currently Kicking My Ass goes to "Who is Snape?" by Orson Scott Card. I nearly always enjoy Card's non-fictional musings, even when I don't entirely agree with his position on the topic of discussion, and this incredibly insightful essay is a shining example of why. Quite long but very worth it ( Read more... )

New word that I simply must find a way of using (indeed, given my journal's title, I feel it is imperative that I do so as soon as possible) in some LJ-related capacity. From Wiki:

Desiderius Erasmus coined the term lunula to refer to the rounded parentheses ( ), recalling the round shape of the moon.
How cool is that? Apparently the word can mean ( Read more... )

So in case someone out there hasn't seen this link already:

Fans of Mystery Science Theater 3000 rejoice! Three of MST3K's writer/characters - Mike Nelson, Bill Corbett, and Kevin Murphy - have started a new venture: The Film Crew. The Film Crew has been entrusted with a very important mission: providing commentary tracks for every movie that ( Read more... )

Happy birthday, islandboyI am terrible at remembering to note people's birthdays, so I hope you feel very special that I was with-it enough to post this. *nods ( Read more... )

You may have treasure and wealth untold,
Caskets of silver and coffers of gold,
But richer than I you never can be:
I had a mother who read to me.
--Quote clipped from an ancient magazine and stuck to my mother's fridge since before I can remember.

Via Wittingshire, a link to a really lovely piece on the joys of reading aloud (most specifically to ( Read more... )