Warren Ellis – a useful quote
I find myself collecting little quotes from Warren Ellis’ Orbital Operations newsletter, as I read through the backlog that I’ve allowed to pile up in my email. Here’s a good […]
books
The Laundry Files, the Library, and Modesty Blaise
After taking a fairly long break from reading Charles Stross’ Laundry Files series, I picked up The Apocalypse Codex a few weeks ago. I just finished reading it this week. […]
programming books and videos
We’re snowed in today here in my part of NJ, so today’s probably a good day to review and clean up some of the “independent study” stuff I’ve been working […]
Solstice
Here’s an interesting video from The New Yorker, breaking down Tracy K. Smith’s poem “Solstice.” I like her work. She’s even got a bit of cross-over into the SF world; […]
The Book of Dust
I was pretty excited to find out this week that Philip Pullman will be releasing the first volume of his new trilogy in October of this year. The trilogy isn’t […]
Art and Literature for Troubled Times
OK, that post title might be a little pretentious. But I’ve been seeing a lot of stuff on the internet over the last month about art and literature, with relation […]
Philip Roth on Trump
Coincidentally, after reading a fairly old New Yorker article about Philip Roth over the weekend, and blogging about it, I saw today that the New Yorker reached out to Roth […]
Almost Enough Art
I was reading this article about Philip Roth this morning, and a couple of lines jumped out at me. First, this one from a letter from Saul Bellow: There’s almost […]
Goodreads reading challenge
I set a goal of 50 books in my Goodreads reading challenge last year, and read 79 total. A lot of them were comics, and some of the non-comics stuff […]
Cyber Monday
I couldn’t quite talk myself into signing up for a Pluralsight subscription today, even at the $200 Black Friday rate, but I did convince myself to plunk down $15 for […]