Multi-holiday
Happy Valentine's Day to those as celebrate it! To those as don't, happy Arizona Statehood Day! And to Certain People...
My brother’s 25 Things list
A month ago, my brother Jay posted his own 25 Things list, in two parts: part 1, part 2. Good...
Downtime
Dropped Jim off at the airport yesterday morning. Picked up groceries, came home, worked at home. Today, intended to go...
Friends
One of my favorite bits of verse popped into my head again the other day, for no particular reason, as...
Adaptation
Just heard Bernice Johnson Reagon on NPR, talking about, among other things, her experience (as part of the Civil Rights...
Who does whitewashing hurt?
Ellen Oh, a Korean-American writer, is one of many people who've blogged about the shameful whitewashing of the cast of...
A little fragile
I've been a little frayed lately, a little more likely than usual to react badly to small inconveniences or annoyances,...
R.I.P., William Tenn/Phil Klass
I've been reading William Tenn's stories since I was a kid; his stories were scattered through a bunch of the...
Classics recast into high school settings
I recently learned about another modern movie that takes a Shakespeare play and reworks it to set it in a...
Want to read the fifth Marla Mason book?
T.A. Pratt's Marla Mason series of urban fantasy novels was cancelled last year after four books. Not long ago, the...
R.I.P., Kage Baker
Green Man Review reports that Kage Baker died this morning, of cancer.
Lookalikes
A bunch of my Facebook friends are doing the thing where they temporarily replace their profile photo with an image...