Here’s what the local newspaper’s horoscope had to say for those lucky enough to be born today, whether this year or earlier: During the next four weeks you need to keep a low profile and not take any gambles with your career or money. The stars are not dire, but your timing could be off. …
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Stevereads
Stevereads tackles the history of the first Star Trek books, which were collections of stories from the original series. I well remember being mesmerized by the covers and the thrill of reliving this series, whenever I liked, in book form. (Man, I’d have loved Wild Wild West novelizations too!) (interesting that those two shows were …
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Steve reviews Robert Graves’ The Anger of Achilles, and finds more ways to say that Graves is one can short of a six-pack than I could imagine. Bookshelf Porn: “A collection of all the best bookshelf photos for people who *heart* bookshelves.” The illustrated guide to a PhD. Check out the other articles on his …
Lewis Shiner and the Fiction Liberation Front
Friend and colleague Lewis Shiner is a writer and novelist who has been releasing his fiction on the web for the last few years. Here’s an appreciation of Lew and his site that I wrote for the SILS Galley, way back in Fall 2007: Raleigh resident Lewis Shiner made his name in the ’80s as …
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Summarizing the past year
Sorry to disappoint my skeptically inquiring readers, but I love reading my weekly Freewill Astrology post. Rob Brezsny’s Libra posts for the last three weeks have swirled around the idea of a cycle ending, taking stock, and looking ahead. Here’s how his Aug 12, 2010, reading put it: If you and I were sitting face …
David Markson
I can’t remember how I ran across Markson’s novel This Is Not A Novel, but I found it so fascinating an experiment that I scooped up and read his other novels that followed the same disconnected yet mosaic-like form. Colin Marshall has written an appreciation of Markson, who recently died, that takes in all of …
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“The truth is dancers and musicians live in two different worlds.” For academic writers, the Rule of 200. Writing 200 words/day is rather like writing for 15 minutes/day — it sets an objective, emotionally neutral goal. Getting that first draft squeezed out is most important; quality can be layered in later. Also, this raises the …
From dr to mr
During my single year in PhD-land, my primary focus of research was on myself.
Science is boring!
Interesting confluence of views from today’s feeds: Let’s face it, science is boring – science-in-society – 21 December 2009 – New Scientist “Science is not a whirlwind dance of excitement, illuminated by the brilliant strobe light of insight. It is a long, plodding journey through a dim maze of dead ends. It is painstaking data …
Fall 2009 chicken
Taking a leaf from Havi’s Friday Chicken, this post will review the semester just past, but with a few additional headings. The Hard I never got around to writing all the blog posts documenting my semester, its ups and downs—which is one of the reasons I started the blog, so that it could serve as …
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