Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
Have I really done 31 of these? Christmas music is in the air, whether you're into it or not. So before we get too sentimental, here's Patton Oswalt describing what…
Can Anyone Write Rampant Animal Sex Prose?
In response to this year's Bad Sex Award (given to Nancy Huston's Infrared), Rick Gekoski at the Guardian proposes a Good Sex Award, though he acknowledges that it might never get…
From Above Contest #2
You can see the answer to the first contest here. This location is in the United States and relates, in a small way, to the murder of a famous person.…
Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
Yesterday had me socializing far more than I generally like, so I took the day off of speaking to other human beings. Don't worry. I like most of you. You're…
Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
My review of Jim Murdoch's novel Milligan and Murphy is up on the Dactyl Review site. Given that my review is mixed, I must say that Mr. Murdoch is an awfully good sport. Nerds…
Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
I just finished the first draft of a review of a well-written but at the same time frustrating pastiche of Samuel Beckett's Mercier and Camier. You'll hear more about that in…
Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
Voyager 1, still in our solar system, has discovered a new layer in the heliopause. It's amazing how far that little gadget has gone and how much it's done. Murder-suicides discussed…
Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
On Mercury, ice is nice. If only we weren't losing ours. The urban-rural divide in U.S. politics. I enjoyed my time at the University of Washington's MFA program. I finished…
From Above Contest
The rules are simple. I show you a picture of a location along with a vague sense of where it is (nothing more specific than the country/continent). You leave a…
Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
I just mailed off five free signed copies of Dismantle the Sun to some lucky so-and-sos at librarything.com. Of the five winners, two are residents of rural Michigan, and one of…