This morning, I had a moment of insanity. Or rather, I had a random thought and then my brain simply would not let it go. Even now, it’s not entirely willing to disengage from the idea, even though I know it’s a stupid idea. It has to do with my website redesign, which I planContinue reading “On Mad Thoughts of Blogging and Coding”
On Remembering John Lennon
Thirty-one years ago today, John Lennon was gunned down outside his apartment building in Manhattan. He was two months past his fortieth birthday. I’ve had a tradition, going back more than a decade, of listening to Lennon hardcore on the anniversary of his death. Today, I generally didn’t. I put on a CD at workContinue reading “On Remembering John Lennon”
On Taking the Wonder Victory
Last night, after a particularly grueling day at the office, I decided to blow off some steam by grinding civilizations under my boot. But instead of pulling out Age of Empires III, as is my wont when I feel the urge to pillage and conquer, I went older school — Age of Empires II. IContinue reading “On Taking the Wonder Victory”
On Guest-Blogging About Tennyson
While blogging here has gone from a nearly-daily thing to a twice-a-week thing (if I’m lucky — life’s become an endless deadline), today saw the publication of a guest blog post I wrote for Stuart Ian Burns, a blogger in Liverpool. Stuart asked me to ponder the two most quoted lines of Alfred, Lord Tennyson’sContinue reading “On Guest-Blogging About Tennyson”
On Linus and the Meaning of Christmas
My niece turned three on Monday, and on Saturday I went down to Virginia to spend the day with my sister and her family to celebrate my niece’s birthday. For my niece’s birthday, I gave her some Christmas socks and a recordable storybook of A Charlie Brown Christmas that I picked up at Hallmark aContinue reading “On Linus and the Meaning of Christmas”
On George Harrison, Ten Years Gone
Ten years ago today, George Harrison died of cancer. He was fifty-eight. I’m not sure that I can improve upon what I wrote in an e-mail to a friend at the time: My favorite Beatle depends as much upon what day of the week it is as it does upon my mood for that day.Continue reading “On George Harrison, Ten Years Gone”
On Working Through the Blog Coding
No, blogging world, I have not forgotten about you. I’ve been very, very busy, though I did squeeze in a Doctor Who drabble based on The Silmarillion. (Yes, really. Don’t be shocked. It works.) Last weekend I was in New Jersey for Philcon. I took off Friday and Monday. When I got back to theContinue reading “On Working Through the Blog Coding”
On Thinking About a Podcast
Over the weekend, I was at Philcon, a science-fiction convention held just outside Philadelphia. This is not my Philcon recap post. 😉 Over the weekend, though, since I had some free time and I was feeling under the weather, I worked on some novel research reading. First, there was a book I’d tossed in myContinue reading “On Thinking About a Podcast”
At Philcon
Yes, that subject line breaks that titling standard I’ve used for the better part of five years. But it’s a standard that’s going away when I unveil the new website design, so I don’t feel so bad. The first day here in Cherry Hill was nice. I had dinner with Jay and Pam Smith andContinue reading “At Philcon”
On My Philcon Schedule
The rumors are true! I’ll be attending Philcon this weekend. Here’s where I can be found, if you should so happen to be in Cherry Hill, New Jersey… TOLKIEN’S OTHER WORKSSat 6:00 PM in Crystal Ballroom Three (1 hour)Panelists: Allyn Gibson (mod), Daniel Grotta, Jay Wile, Robert Kauffmann, Mark MandelJ.R.R. Tolkien is best known todayContinue reading “On My Philcon Schedule”