Monthly Archives: April 2011
30 DoB, Day 13: Favorite Author
The next question in the 30 Days of Books list is a pretty high stakes one: Day 13 – Your favorite writer I mean, other than “Favorite Book” does it get any bigger than that for a reader? For me, I … Continue reading
Pale Blue Dot
As I was puttering around this morning instead of getting ready for work, I came across this. Take a few minutes. As I look back, Cosmos was a seminal step in developing my love of science. If Sagan hadn’t made … Continue reading
Friday Drabble: Friday Afternoon
Remember, a drabble is a very short story of exactly 100 words. Feel free to join in and write your own drabbles on Fridays and tag them with “friday drabble” and on Twitter with the hashtag #fridaydrabble. This has a different take, … Continue reading
30 DoB Day 12: Used to Love
You remember back when you were a teenager and the discovery of books and music was SO COOL and when you found a band or an author that you liked, you’d just devour anything from them and proclaim it, “THE … Continue reading
The Lathe of California
In Ursula K. LeGuin’s 1971 novel The Lathe of Heaven, the protagonist, who can re-shape the world with his subconscious, is guided to dream of a world without racism. And rather than change peoples’ minds, he creates a world in … Continue reading
Stevil Loves Everyone
No — not like that. You all know better than that… However — a few of the Vox-diaspora have participated in a project by Paul Thie called everyone in which he will produce a small sketch portrait of you based on … Continue reading
30 DoB, Day 10: Favorite Classic
As I was thinking about the latest question in the 30 Days of Books list… Day 10 – Favorite classic book …I had a bit of a problem. Namely, what defines a book as a classic? Does a classic book have … Continue reading
Puppy Party!
The other day, the folks that we were lucky enough to get Penny from announced that they’d had a new litter of pointers and that they wanted to have a pot-luck lunch so that their friends could get to meet … Continue reading
Goners
The other week, we were having dinner with a long-time friend of ours and we were talking about movies. Specifically, we were discussing our tendency to judge people (we’re judgers, you see) by what movies they’ve seen and liked. We … Continue reading
