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Someone associated with a newspaper (Adele Geras at the Guardian website) finally says some reasonable stuff about bookblogs and newspaper book critics. [In the blogosphere y]ou can write as much as you like and you are completely and utterly independent. … Continue reading →

My friend Shawn Wilbur, an intellectual historian and a mainstay of the libertarian left, has been putting volumes of the 19th century progressive paper Liberty online in PDF form. Here’s the archive so far and here’s Shawn’s post on the … Continue reading →

I got some cool stuff for Father’s Day, but at the risk of sounding soppy here are some recentish photos of the two best gifts I ever got (Nicholas on the left, Jessika on the right). They obliged me tonight … Continue reading →

I was bemusedly watching the trailer for the new live-action Underdog movie (seen at a post by Paul di Filippo on the Inferior Four group blog) and wondering whether a live-action Underdog movie is really needed at this moment in … Continue reading →

This is sort of how I write.

Not bad enough to make me resolve to stop watching the show, but not that great.

Some kind words about “A Book of Silences” from Sherwood Smith (sartorias) in her review of Black Gate 10 at Tangent Online. Leaving Morlock and myself out of it, I thought it was a pretty strong issue also. Tangent‘s purview … Continue reading →

It looks like the prophesied cash cow, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, might not yield much in the way of milk.

It’s not my practice to get political in this blog, but I feel compelled to point out that something truly weird is happening in the US conservative movement. Here and here Harvey C. Mansfield is openly advocating “one man rule” … Continue reading →

The Double Tongued Word Wrester (an online dictionary of neologisms; LiveJournal syndication here) has really been on a roll lately. bullgeschichte Part of Speech: n. Quotation: “’Bullgeschichte’ is the methodological tool best exemplified by wikipediasts and dilettantes. The method entails … Continue reading →