I remember vastly enjoying Emil and the Detectives as a child, and then more or less enjoying struggling through it auf Deutsch as a teenager. I was shocked to discover it had gone out of print, and even more shocked…
One of the many nice things about this hand-tooled blog is that comment-spammers had never really thought of it as a blog. It doesn’t look like a blog—or, rather, it doesn’t look like a blog to a machine. Plus, of…
This was written as a response to Benjamin Rosenbaum, to be posted as a comment on his blog, but my blog got jealous. Please respond over there, or, you know, in both places, or what you will, but keep in…
So, a couple of nights ago, at rehearsal, our Director made a decision that I had argued against, and cut one of my laugh lines. Yesterday, she called to find out whether I was in a snit about it. I…
Benjamin Rosenbaum has written a long and magnificent post called On “The Stain of Sin” which is on, er, The Stain of Sin, a long and … fascinating blog post by Hal Duncan, one in a series of fascinating posts…
Your Humble Blogger has always liked The King Must Die. It’s not my very favorite Mary Renault, which is The Mask of Apollo, but it’s probably next favorite. It’s amazing how much I liked the physical daring of Theseus, when…
After deciding that the ten singers/bands meme was not so good with my very favorite singers/bands, it occurred to me that it would actually be more interesting like this: Oldenburg Picasso Robert Arneson Lichtenstein Warhol Donatello Magritte Jenny Holzer Louise…
One nice thing about memes (ooh! that word!) is that when one is feeling blogblocked, one can blog a meme without much creativity, that is, without deciding what to post about, or what to say about it. It’s blog-by-numbers time,…
I happened to come across Belief or Nonbelief at the library, and as I am a reasonably big fan of Umberto Eco, who is one of the authors, I thought I would pick it up. These are translations of, well,…
Here’s a little science fiction discussion question for y’all, Gentle Readers. Given your druthers, which ludicrously implausible scientific breakthough (slash production breakthrough slash whatever) would you prefer to see announced and implemented immediately? (a) something that would make it possible,…