What I’m reading
This post is mainly aimed at my bass playing friends but also other types of musicians might enjoy it. I just got through reading the latest revision of Ted Gould‘s book and felt compelled to share this review. With his new book (iTunes link), Ted skillfully bridges the gap between the …
There are a lot of heartbreaks you set yourself up for as a parent. Perhaps you have a while before you need to deal with some of them — the first date, going off to college and moving out, the eventual wedding — but no dagger strikes so deep yet …
My wife alerted me last night to a terrible loss to the literary world — writer David Foster Wallace was found dead Friday night of an apparent suicide. DFW was already at 46 a giant of American literature and, even though he tended to the self-absorbed, his writing was passionate …
I was surprised and overjoyed to find out that one of my favorite novelists, Nelson DeMille, is returning to catch his readers up on the cast of one of his best books, The Gold Coast. The end of October will see the publication of
News flash: CSI to be entirely cast with morons. Because what could be better than trusting bedrock criminal investigative principles like the chain of evidence and scientific objectivity to COMPLETE IDIOTS?
Cinematical reviews a portrait of one of the only writers to come out of the science fiction genre who will matter in a hundred years — Harlan Ellison, in a biopic called Dreams With Sharp Teeth. Go HE! I met Harlan once at a book-signing and, determined not to raise …
EDITOR’S NOTE: No spelling, punctuation, or other content changes have been made from the author’s original work. The Hero, by Evelyn (age 7) Once upon a time, when Nature was wild beyond rights, there was a young man who took a dare to go into the woods alone for 30 …
This weekend was as good a time as any to take a step back from work for a bit, so I might as well wrap up some non-Fedora things I’ve been doing lately — less accomplishments than enjoyments, really. I got some reading done for pleasure, including one of Alan …
Sorry I don’t have time to look up links. Google is your friend; use it. ? Fedora. Got a release notes package put together, only to find out that I broke something stupid that I had originally done right and then subsequently “fixed,” in the way that you might fix …
Evie’s first school newsletter came home this week, and printed in it was a twisted, cloying wreck of verse that reminded me: Most of you who write poetry, shouldn’t.
