A poster for a clothing drive in the elevator vestibule in the office is a typographic atrocity. Just from sight, I’ve identified the following typefaces: Comic Sans Arial Arial Rounded Lucida Grande At that point, my eyes glazed over and my brain was stunned into a stupor.
On Looking Ahead to the Summer Months
Where does time go? Shore Leave is only about ten weeks away! I sent the con an updated bio earlier today. What brought this to mind was that I received some website traffic from the Shore Leave website yesterday. So, said I to myself, “Which bio do they have running?” And I discovered they didn’tContinue reading “On Looking Ahead to the Summer Months”
On a City I’d Move To
I grew up in rural America. Mountains and trees, streams and fields. Rugged country. I’ve lived in cities since college. Richmond. Raleigh. Baltimore. At one time in my life, about a decade ago now, I thought that New York City would have been a fantastic place to be. Unfortunately, my friends who are New YorkersContinue reading “On a City I’d Move To”
On Osama bin Laden and Indifference
Like many people, I got up this morning, checked the news websites, and saw that something world-changing happened overnight. Osama bin Laden was dead. And I was utterly indifferent to it. Oh, I read articles on a half-dozen sites, from straight news to instant commentary. And I coudln’t really make myself care. I thought brieflyContinue reading “On Osama bin Laden and Indifference”
On “Day of the Moon” and the Doctor’s Plan
When last we saw the Doctor, Amy, and Rory on Doctor Who, they were in a creepy warehouse in Florida. Their erstwhile FBI ally, Canton Everett Delaware III, had been conked unconscious by persons unknown. River Song was exploring the catacombs underneath the warehouse with Rory where they found what appeared to be a proto-TARDISContinue reading “On “Day of the Moon” and the Doctor’s Plan”
On Doctor Who Intros
Last week I mentioned that, in the United States, BBC America attached a prologue/voice-over to Doctor Who, with Amy introducing the series and its premise. It turns out that Canada and Australia also had the Amy voice-over. Maybe it’s an international thing. I kinda hope it goes on the DVD sets, if only as anContinue reading “On Doctor Who Intros”
On Writers and the Beer Diet
Writers should never be left to their own devices. This morning, I saw an article at Slate that asked the important question of our times — How Long Can You Survive on Beer Alone? As it happens, one can live for about two months on a diet consisting only of beer and water, at whichContinue reading “On Writers and the Beer Diet”
On the Architecture I Appreciate
Yesterday evening, I discovered a BBC program I’d not heard of — In Our Time, hosted by Melvyn Bragg. It’s a history program, and the host, Bragg, talks with a few experts about a given subject for forty minutes. I went and pulled a few episodes off the podcast feed, especially when I saw thatContinue reading “On the Architecture I Appreciate”
On Elbow’s “Open Arms” Single
Elbow’s new single, “Open Arms,” came out today, and as I did two months ago for “Neat Little Rows” I performed a little jiggery-pokery with Amazon UK and proxy servers to make the download happen. In a way, I really only needed the single for the B-side, “Buffalo Ghosts.” Last week, I acquired an “OpenContinue reading “On Elbow’s “Open Arms” Single”
On Dramatic Structure and “The Impossible Astronaut”
Has Steven Moffat become Brannon Braga? Or, more to the point, has Moffat always written like Brannon Braga, only we’ve never, ever noticed?