I don’t eat pork. (You probably guessed that from the title.) Not only do I not eat pork, I don’t eat other products derived from pigs, including bacon, lard, and gelatin, or any sort of food containing those items. Up until now, if you’d asked me why not, I’d shrug…
Maybe you, too, read the short story “The Lady or the Tiger”, by Frank Stockton, in middle or high school. If you didn’t, read it now, because I’m going to spoil it in the next paragraph.
While discussing Lewis Wolpert’s Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast (2006) with my suitemate last week, she made an interesting point. As I complained about the oversimplification of various philosophical and logical points, she said, reasonably, “Well, these books aren’t written for us.” What she meant was that popular science books…
I liked the movie Reservoir Dogs. This doesn’t seem important, but it will be. So for those of you who, like me, have too much to do all day and not enough willpower to do it, websites like FML can be an excellent tool of procrastination.
Hooray! Internet again! The Highlights Whole Novel Workshop was an amazing experience, and much thanks goes out to the instructors and the conferees, who’ve put me back on track with my MS Bad Light (sample chapters still under revision, but the pitch is up on my “Books” page). And New…
The first thing you learn when you’re a drama major is that people consider your field the lowest branch of academia. “Even” a drama student would know this; or seriously? Where do you plan to work with that degree – McDonald’s? But as any drama student who cares can tell…
Happy Mothers’ Day! If I were more on the ball, today’s blog entry would be about my mom and my grandmothers and what wonderful women they are(/were). But I’m not, so it’s not. Instead, I decided to list some of my favourite games. Now, the trouble with most games is…
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds – William Shakespeare So about two years after my cousin Katie recommended it to me, I finally picked up a copy of Audrey Niffenegger’s novel The Time Traveler’s Wife.…
You have a choice: somehow, you have been made omnipotent and put in charge of all the newborn children in the world. If you want, you can change their personalities so that they will never, ever do anything you consider to be wrong, but they’ll be otherwise normal in every…