Liberal Democrats have been complaining about the right-wing flavor of talk radio for some time. This often veers into conspiracy mongering and other idiotic...
BRITISH AUTHOR DETAINED 24 HOURS AT BORDER John Marshall: One of Britain's most popular and acclaimed authors almost missed his appearance last night before...
Jesse Walker (Reason Magazine) forwarded this, from the Times Literary Supplement. I should be getting my new TLS soon, courtesy of friend Henry, but here this...
petrichor: The pleasant smell that accompanies the first rain after a dry spell. From petro- (rock), from Greek petros (stone) + ichor (the fluid that is ...
... Different smell, and not quite as nice. Petrichor is a strange odor. Odd. Mysterious. It is one of my earliest memories; the smell has haunted me most of...
I once wrote a poem that mentioned this second, not-quite-as-nice post-rain smell: http://www.shrubwalkers.com/poetry/eric/wednesdayafternoon.html Eric...
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/books/169071_scifi15.html Thursday, April 15, 2004 Nebula Awards showcase the Northwest's prominence in science fiction By JOHN...
re: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apscience_story.asp?category01&slug=Moon%20Mars%20Commission Ray Bradbury's romanticism about space travel...
Evangeline Walton's retellings of the Welsh Mabinogion (especially The Children of LLyr and The Prince of Annwn) rank high amongst modern retellings of ancient...
Lolita had a precursor? She did, indeed she did. Or: It did, indeed it did. Over a month ago, on my blog's left-hand column (wirkman.networkings), I logged a...
A full account of the precursor of Lolita appeared a while back in the Times Literary Supplement. Evidently Nabokov found the story provoking enough to write...
I don't always like his prose ... ... ...but "Lolita" is my candidate for the Great American Novel. And I love the prose there. I love "Despair," which was...
I'm playing Buriden's ass right now. Which bale of hay? Or, Hey: which book? 1. Thucydides big book on the Greek Wars. You know the one. I've been meaning to...
Here's an interview with Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen, about his new science fiction museum.... http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/178361_allen18.asp -- t...
On Instead of a Blog yesterday I placed a poem: http://www.insteadofablog.com/ http://www.insteadofablog.com/2004.08.03.shtml So far, I've been complimented on...
* O D E T O W E E D S * * Timo (see below) gives us the ref to his alternativalistical blog which containeth a poem he read at a Finnish conclave about a...
Very good. My kinda poem: * N O R M D I C K S * ... One needs no more than a sentence To pass judgment on a man whose name Is a sentence itself . But NORM...
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,1283552,00.html 'It's your shout, then we can start discussing VS Naipaul' The Racketeers are not your average...
I read Nicholson Baker's latest short "novel" this week. "Checkpoint" is, like "Vox," entirely consisting of dialogue, with no prose description. Unlike "Vox,"...
Microsoft former executive writes a book about organization: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/187415_msftnotebook23.html It actually looks interesting! t...
My niece asked me to recommend some contemporary short stories. So I did. Here's what I wrote her: Literature! Ha! I'm afraid my favorite two stories from the...
The local school got rid of what seemed like a half a room full of books, thousands upon thousands. And - doing my part as tenant in this school building - I...
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