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I've just implemented a new policy for comments: For entries less than two weeks old, nothing has changed; anyone can...

Just finished reading Tigana. Wow. A really gorgeous book, compelling and moving and lovely, easy to read but richly layered,...

Belated happy Mother's Day to all of the mothers reading this! I'm always impressed by y'all. And, more generally, yay...

I am not a patriot in the usual sense of the term. Humanity and the world are generally more important...

(This is another case where I wrote most of the entry months ago but didn't get around to posting it...

I keep seeing links to photos of "The Sultan's Elephant," but not to information about it. In case anyone else...

A couple of quick thoughts about BSG that don't involve spoilers (mostly discussion of the iTunes Music Store approach to...

Very big spoilers here for the last three episodes of season 2 of Battlestar Galactica. Non-spoiler summary: I loved them,...

There's a trope I like a lot in fiction when it's done well: characters who are so ardent in their...

Been neglecting my journaling lately; sorry about that. (. . . I wrote this entry last night and thought I had posted...

Tomorrow night (which is to say Wednesday, 10 May), there'll be a rapid-fire reading in San Francisco to benefit Strange...

Some reasonably big and fairly specific spoilers here for the second half of season 2 of Battlestar Galactica. Kam and...