The problem with TV conspiracies
Nice quote: The problem with all-powerful conspiracies on serialized TV shows is that, inevitably, they have to be defeated by...
Archive for Commonplace Book
On scientific dissent
Happened across this while looking up something else: But being a dissenter from orthodoxy is not difficult; the hard part...
Pink Panther quotes
Back in March, I watched the original Pink Panther movie, and didn't like it much. But it did include a...
Cute flash fiction
Encountered this a while back on rathergood.com; no idea whether it's by them or by someone else: And the princess...
Berlioz on writing
Cute quote: When I talk of my laziness, it only applies to the writing of prose. I have often sat...
When to reconsider
Still reading Jane Eyre, but getting near the end. I think that the following, as a response to a marriage...
Quotes for the day
Any minute now, I'm going to get up and finish the last of my packing for WisCon. Leaving for the...
Two bits of Kipling
Years ago, back in the Usenet days, someone used to have as their .signature a verse that I quite liked;...
Downtime
Dropped Jim off at the airport yesterday morning. Picked up groceries, came home, worked at home. Today, intended to go...
Adaptation
Just heard Bernice Johnson Reagon on NPR, talking about, among other things, her experience (as part of the Civil Rights...
Westerns and science fiction
The opportunity of a Western is that it takes issues of our culture—conflict, racial conflict, economic injustice, what is...
The effect of reading
"[W]hat with little sleep and much reading his brains got so dry that he lost his wits." —Don Quixote, chapter...