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March 12, 2015 · 330 words
Cape Sounion
Here’s another photo from my long-ago trip to Greece, of sunrise at the temple to Poseidon on Cape Sounion, at the end of the Attic peninsula. I took the bus out to Sounion, bought a ticket, viewed the ruin— which is perhaps the most perfect small temple ever built— and then had souvlaki in a […]
Read entry →March 11, 2015 · 746 words
Secret Masters
So for years, when visiting Santa Fe, I’ve been driving past a giant pink Moorish castle, and wondering what went on inside. For the place was Santa Fe’s Scottish Rite Temple, where met the Secret Masters of Whatever It Is They’re Secret Masters Of. The other day, for the first time in history, the temple […]
Read entry →March 10, 2015 · 213 words
Analog Me
I’m in search of lost time, as Proust might put it. I’ve got a closet full of slide carousels documenting my various travels through the multiverse, and I’ve just bought a scanner/converter to bring them all into the digital age. So for the last few days I have been soaking in nostalgia for the lost […]
Read entry →March 8, 2015 · 94 words
The Multiverse on Sale!
Implied Spaces is now on sale for $0.99 at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and Smashwords. It’s supposed to be on sale at iBooks, but for some reason Apple seems not to have got the word. This situation may be corrected by the time you read this, however. UPDATE: the problem has been solved, and iBooks now […]
Read entry →March 5, 2015 · 448 words
Lessons for Writers: Dr. Funkenstein
I’ve been enjoying the autobiography of George Clinton, with its somehow perfect title, Brothas Be, YO Like George, Ain’t That Funkin’ Kinda Hard On You? I really didn’t follow Parliament/Funkadelic back in the day, for various reasons. I liked my rock and roll more straight up. P-Funk was so prolific, with its various
Read entry →March 4, 2015 · 277 words
Bloody Jane
“From this period, the intimacy between the Families of Fitzroy, Drummond and Falknor, daily increased till at length it grew to such a pitch, that they did not scruple to kick one another out of the window on the slightest provocation.” Who was it, d’ye think, that wrote such an elegantly balanced Augustan sentence, a
Read entry →March 3, 2015 · 270 words
Skunked
More details about the fusion reactor being developed by Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works, courtesy of Aviation Week. “We would like to get to a prototype in five generations. If we can meet our plan of doing a design-build-test generation every year, that will put us at about five years, and we’ve already shown we can do
Read entry →February 24, 2015 · 841 words
Eye of Newt, Toe of Frog, Balm of Tiger
I am feeling particularly yeasty at the moment, because I’ve actually had a good night’s sleep, followed by a long, peaceful nap. This hasn’t happened lately. Something like two-and-a-half years ago, I woke sleeping on my left side, with my left arm pinned under me. This resulted in a good deal of left shoulder [&helli
Read entry →February 20, 2015 · 787 words
I Am Back
. . . but it took a lot longer than I expected. There were delays flying to Boston on Thursday— I won’t detail them all, but there were lots— and my bag didn’t make it, and when I got to the hotel early in the evening my room wasn’t ready, and I really wanted a shower. […]
Read entry →February 12, 2015 · 62 words
Genius Quest!
Taos Toolbox, the master class for science fiction and fantasy, still has a few openings! The workshop will be taught June 28-July 11, 2015, in Taos Ski Valley, and will be taught by myself, Nancy Kress, and special lecturer Carrie Vaughn. If you want to bring your literary genius to the next level, you need […]
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