Am I the only person who finds it especially auspicious when a person's first and last name combined count 8 or fewer letters, since then they could use it in an 8.3 DOS-style filename? (example: …
I am not yet ready to publicly join the conversation on cultural appropriation in fiction. However I wish to draw your attention to Rachel Chalmers's warm, smart, funny book reviews, which she posts in a …
As Father Brown would say: "Lord, what a turnip I am...Lord, what a turnip."
Some lines from Arrested Development stick in my mind as incisive embodiments of some less-acknowledged fallacies, afflictions, and distinctions. To wit: Should the Fünkes try an open marriage? Tobias notes that many couples he counseled …
An abbreviated diary of the past few days, mostly for future Sumana's use: Wednesday I went to Supper and the Sci-Fi Screening Room with a journalist who opines that it's his God-given right to drink …
Today, looking at the tax documents, I saw Leonard's name next to mine and felt awe again that we're really seriously married. Mega-married! proclaimed Leonard. We conjectured that maybe the government should let same-sex couples …
As Leonard and I read submissions for the anthology, we compiled some tips for writers. Leonard has them up on his site.
If you liked my most recent poem (the Linton Johnson one about BART), you might like these: on my right pinky finger (near the end of the page) on chess "Consistency Bias," on coercion and …
Years after Zed and Rachel C. (Update: and Erica Olsen!!) tagged me with fairly similar book blogpostmemes, I respond. Hugo Schwyzer did a similar one once that I'm taking this opportunity to link to, and …
Leonard and I are watching Carl Sagan's COSMOS, which is astounding. Also, if you're doing impressions, two parts Obama plus one part Woody Allen will give you an okay Sagan.
