So.  I’ve been up forever, and it isn’t six o’clock yet.  Work is not going well.  Or at least, it isn’t going well for today.  I keep having to stop myself from ripped up the entire last 100 pages. Of course, I could be just wasting time.  If I’m going to rip it up, maybe…

So,  it’s Sunday, but I’ve got a book to finish, so I just spent the last four hours writing Gregor.  Or most of them. When I was done, I took an hour off and listened to Mozart’s 40th and 41st symphonies, and made a little headway on My Project. Okay, admittedly, I didn’t have the…

Well, this is interesting.  I just published the title of this post with no post in it. It’s not eight o’clock in the morning, and I’m already not operating on all eight cylinders. Whatever–back to business. The big news story around here yesterday concerned a small plane that crashed into two houses just outside Tweed…

Today there’s going to be a very confused post.  I think I know what I’m getting at here, but I’m  not sure.  And I’m getting at it because (of course) I just read a book, but it’s not actually the book I think I want to talk about. Maybe. The book is 49) Larry Niven…

In case some of you don’t know who Ariel Castro  is, he’s the man in Ohio who kidnapped three women and then kept them all captive in his house for a decade.  He was finally discovered, and the women were finally released, about a month or so ago, when one of those women managed to…

Well, it’s that time again, and the list for July looks like this: 40) Meyer Schapiro. Late Antiquity, Early Christian, and Medieval Art: Selected Papers. 41) Dorothy L. Sayers. Have His Carcase. (rr) 42) Ernest Hemingway. A Moveable Feast. (rr)           l) Ernest Hemingway.  “Out of Season.” (rr) 43) Daniel C. Dennett. Breaking the Spell.…

So, Bradley Manning has been convicted of just about everything except “aiding the enemy,” as CNN put it, and I’ve been thinking about treason. “Giving aid and comfort to the enemy in the time of war” is the way the US law has always defined treason, even though the actual reading of the article in…

So, what I’ve been reading in my off time the last week or so is a book called 47) Scott O. Lilienfeld, Steven Jay Lynn, Jeffrey M. Lohr,  eds. Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology. I did mean to do a long blog post on this book in general. It’s actually a collection of essays, but…

  This is going to be something of a befuddled post, so I figure I’d better warn you from off. Some of you already know that one of the movies I’m fascinated with is a thing called Shattered Glass.  This is a movie about the Stephen Glass incident at The New Republic where a young…

I’ve been thinking about the comments from yesterday, and I think I need to find a better way to get some of my ideas across. I’m not looking for admiration from readers–I like it if I get it, and it’s always fun, but that’s not the requirement. What I require is that a reader understand what…