What a Nobel Mind is Here O’erthrown…

The Nobel Prize Committee passed over me and Bob Dylan again, in spite of my tireless efforts on behalf of American sword-and-sorcery and whatever it is that Dylan does.

I called him up to commiserate. I said, “This is starting to look like a cultural bias against Minnesota expatriates! The Nobel committee has some explaining to . . . → Read More: What a Nobel Mind is Here O’erthrown…

Multiply Variety in a Wilderness of Custards?

Although, like the universal world, I am on Twitter, I don’t usually post my tweets here. For one thing, some of them are parts of particular conversations that don’t make much sense without a context (e.g. “BUT YOU SAID YOU LOVED ME! #ihateyourguts”). Others are things I post here or on Facebook anyway. And I have . . . → Read More: Multiply Variety in a Wilderness of Custards?

Should Have Been 4 Posts

1. Last Friday was the best Fall-of-Sauron Day ever. No, I can’t talk about it. But someday the world will know, and then it will say, “What is he talking about again?”

2. You know how it is when somebody writes some incredibly dumb thing about your profession and you grit your teeth and say to yourself, . . . → Read More: Should Have Been 4 Posts

Sorry About This…

… but I’ve decided to close the comments on this blog permanently. It’s not you, reader: it’s the spambots. More than 99% of the comments here are spam, and it seems utterly pointless to spend my time weeding through them.

If you have something to say to me (and you actually exist, and are not a spambot), . . . → Read More: Sorry About This…