Posted in Administrative, Cool Stuff on March 10, 2008 | No Comments »
So I’ve just got back my computer, after it was caught in a horrific flood of epic (inch-high) proportions… just in time to be in the middle of midterms. So I am slightly overworked at the moment. Next week is spring break, so hopefully I’ll get a blog or two up in that time.
If you [...]
Posted in Administrative on February 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Posting will slow down even more for a little while I’m afraid. My laptop was caught in a flood.
Yeah, I hate dorms. Never lived in one, but I hate them. My girlfriend does live in one, and we woke up Sunday morning to find water almost up to our ankles covering the entire floor of [...]
Posted in Administrative, Comics on February 11, 2008 | No Comments »
Of course it’s always painful when one of your favorite writers dies–especially one who you read voraciously in your youth. What else is there to say?
R.I.P. Steve Gerber
I suppose I should have paid more attention to goings on, as I didn’t even know that he was sick. But goddamn. I wish I had read his [...]
Posted in Administrative, Obsessive Compulsive Stuff, Rants, Swashbuckling on January 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I have, so far, done my best to avoid talking much about my own writing. After all, what’s the point of being so self-indulgent, especially when I don’t actually have anything published which I can shamelessly shill? Nonetheless, the feeling of a weight off the shoulders is incredible right now, as I just finished editing [...]
Posted in Administrative on December 8, 2007 | No Comments »
Too busy writing papers and reading actual history (as opposed to historical fiction) to really write anything here. 14th century travelogues describing Medieval sub-Saharan Africa are fascinating, but I’m writing enough about this stuff for class to want to blog about it too, and I don’t assume that most people share my interest in it [...]
Posted in Administrative, Hardboiled, Mystery, Pulp on November 19, 2007 | No Comments »
Bookgasm makes me happy and sad all at once. Happy for the wonders that exist in this world, and sad for the time and money needs that constrain them. A great review: this right here looks like a must-have!
Posted in Administrative, Cool Stuff, Swashbuckling on November 5, 2007 | No Comments »
So, had I been the good little fact checker that I should be, I would have already noticed that the new Michael Chabon book that I mentioned the other day, Gentlemen of the Road, has in fact already finished its serializing in The New York Times Magazine. All things considered, that makes a lot more [...]
Posted in Administrative, Cool Stuff, Swashbuckling on November 2, 2007 | No Comments »
Michael Chabon has clearly stolen my idea… and I discover this fact on my birthday, no less!
Ok, no he hasn’t, and in fact I’m rather elated at the prospect of Gentlemen of the Road, his newest novel. (Although yes, it is really my birthday today. Rejoice.)
Essentially, Chabon has decided to take his “write about things [...]
Posted in Administrative, Cool Stuff on October 30, 2007 | No Comments »
Over at Classical Bookworm my eye was caught by a good way for us language nerds to kill some time, and actually do some good too. (Usually our ways of killing time and indulging love of words involve snarky back-biting… at least, mine do.). Poverty.com has a vocabulary game up that, apparently, donates 10 grains [...]
Posted in Administrative, Blogroll, Cool Stuff, Flynn, Movies, Pirates, Sabatini, Swashbuckling on September 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Melody over at Redeeming Qualities has invented a holiday that warms me right to my little heart. So read the book, watch the movie, maybe save the life of a revolutionary, liberate a bunch of slaves, or sack Cartagena if you like, because it’s Captain Blood Day!
Posted in Administrative on September 5, 2007 | No Comments »
Regrettably, I am very quickly learning that the load of work required for this, my first semester at a four-year college, is going to take up quite alot of my time. Not exactly a surprise, I’ll warrant. The point is that reading for my own pleasure, as well as the act of writing about said [...]
Posted in Administrative, Cool Stuff, Rants on August 20, 2007 | No Comments »
I caught this over at Hidden Side of a Leaf, and figured what the hell. After all, I do love talking about myself, and right now I really need a break from trying to edit my own novel into a workable third draft.
(Editing, for those unaware, is where an author gets to forget all that [...]
Posted in Administrative on July 31, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Things have been rather quiet here recently, sorry about that. I just moved into a new place, and said place does not have internet. On top of that, there simply are alot of things that need to be dealt with right now that take priority over ranting about books on the internet. I do, however, [...]
Posted in Administrative, Sci-Fi on July 3, 2007 | No Comments »
A little under two years ago I bought a magical little tome for a mere two dollars, purely on the strength of its cover. It seemed to be just about the most cliche sci-fi cover in the history of ever: a ship, ray guns, the title Invaders From Rigel, and to top it off, actual [...]
Posted in Administrative on June 8, 2007 | No Comments »
I honestly haven’t the slightest clue as to how the etiquette of a blogroll goes. So, I just now decided to fill my links with a few other blogs of related content that I enjoy (as well as two others that I also write for) and see what comes of it. This is mostly so [...]
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