Wicked fairies and christenings
Way back in late 2000 or early 2001, Palo Alto mainstay Stacey's Bookstore was having a going-out-of-business sale, and Nao...
Philadelphia: Secret Theater, tonight and tomorrow
It's the "second annual five-company Shakespearian Secret Dessert Theater"! The last two nights of it are tonight and tomorrow night....
Beaker sings “Ode to Joy”
For the past couple years, this guy wzauscher has been posting videos of himself singing various classical works in multiple...
Sleepy miscellany
I owe a bunch of you email. I'm sorry about that. I'll try and get to it soon. The answers...
Two good restaurants
Kam and I recently went to Darbar Indian Cuisine in downtown Palo Alto, roughly at Lytton and Alma. We liked...
Fun interview with Roger Moore
Happened across an interview titled "Roger Moore: I'm the worst Bond, apparently" at the Telegraph just now, while looking for...
O beautiful, for spacious skies
For anyone who missed it, Mary Anne posted a very nice piece the other day about nationalism, homelands, and becoming...
Transgender veteran wins sex discrimination lawsuit
Excellent news from last week: Today a federal judge ruled that the Library of Congress illegally discriminated against a Special...
Knight Rider returns
In case there's anyone in the set of people who would want to see the new Knight Rider TV series...
19th-century meme
You know those questionnaires that get circulated through the blogosphere, a list of questions (about likes and dislikes and such)...
Weekend
Friday night, Kam and I watched the season premiere of Sarah Connor (good but not great), and an episode of...
Something else we want at the moment
Strange Horizons is suffering from a dearth of short submissions lately. Or at least, of short submissions that we want...