A few things I'm looking forward to over the next couple weeks:<\/p>\n
Wednesday, June 16: Closing arguments in the Prop 8 trial. Lawyers on both sides will respond to questions<\/a> posed by the judge. The trial will not, alas, be broadcast, but I'm guessing it'll be liveblogged.<\/p>\n Sunday, June 20: Leverage<\/a><\/cite> returns to TV with the start of season 3. The two episodes that closed season 2 were probably my favorite episodes of the series so far (even better than the two-part season 1 finale); I'm very much looking forward to seeing what happens next.<\/p>\n Thursday, June 24: iPhone 4 launches. I am so there. The videophone and multitasking and so on are just lagniappe, as far as I'm concerned; the 330ppi screen is enough reason for me to buy it. You can reserve one ahead of time<\/a> starting June 15.<\/p>\n Saturday, June 26: Octavia E. Butler will be inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame<\/a> (along with Roger Zelazny, Richard Matheson, and Douglas Trumbull). The Carl Brandon Society<\/a> is hosting a party that evening, in honor of Butler's induction, at 8 p.m. at the Lake Union Courtyard Marriott in Seattle. It seems unlikely that I'll be there, but it sounds like fun.<\/p>\n (Note added several months later: I somehow got Butler's middle initial wrong when I posted this entry. Corrected now.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A few things I’m looking forward to over the next couple weeks: Wednesday, June 16: Closing arguments in the Prop…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,89,62,120,73,31,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-events","category-gadgets","category-samesex-marriage","category-telecommunications","category-television","category-writers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}