I’m home today due to my professor’s unexpected flu bug, which means I just have to be in Milwaukee tomorrow for this week. It snowed a couple inches today so a long drive, while doable, would not have been ideal. Good timing flu bug!
I’m now about 1/3rd done with my Spanish course and [...]
Via the Frostburg, MD Science Fiction Society, via the inimitable Andy Duncan:
I am:
Kurt Vonnegut
For years, this unique creator of absurd and haunting tales denied that he had anything to do with science fiction.
Which science fiction writer are you?
I play pick-up footie indoors every Monday and Friday—Wednesdays I’m lamentably in class—and it’s approximately the same group of 30 or so guys. One nice dude who plays all the time is English, and after playing today we started chatting about player development in countries like England, Mexico, and the United States. He [...]
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Yesterday I finished Vine Deloria’s Custer Died For Your Sins and Tom Disch’s Camp Concentration. I’m also about 1/3rd done with Moby Dick.
Deloria’s book is thought-provoking. Subtitled “An Indian Manifesto,” Deloria outlines how natives can be successful in claiming what’s rightfully theirs in modern American society. The chapter where he [...]
I walked into my local book peddler yesterday to pick up one final text for class when lo! I saw that the new Realms of Fantasy has hit the shelves. This is the April 2007 edition which features:
* A Touch of Hell by Richard Parks
* The Rope: by Noreen Doyle
* Stephanie Shrugs by [...]
I’m taking three classes this spring for my MA in creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The prognosis? Lots of work, but the prognosis is good. Actually, I should add emphasis: lots of work, but the prognosis is really good. Here’s what I’m taking:
Native American Humor
Science Fiction, Utopia, Dystopia
Narrative Craft [...]
Today I finished both books I’d been reading: One Hundred Years of Solitude and The Sound and the Fury.
After an initial bad reaction to The Sound and the Fury, I ended up quite liking it. In truth, I listened to this one instead of reading it and more than one person said that might [...]
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It snowed quite a little yesterday and required two rounds of shoveling. 5″ or 6″ inches I would guess. So I took Athena out while I tooled around on my x-country skis. Here are some (not so great) photos:
I realize now I should have been bracketing the pictures to get [...]
Odd. I woke up at 6:00 this morning with a story burning in my head. I got up and wrote it. It’s about 1200 words and is entitled “The Crapshooter’s Funeral.” It’s strange how often I wake up with a story in my head that needs to be written, and usually [...]
So much for my plan to listen to a bunch of 20th century American Classics during my commute. Here’s a list of what Audible.com doesn’t have that I want, in the order I want them:
John Dos Passos, U.S.A. Trilogy
Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
Richard Wright, Native Son
Henry [...]