What with the local daily’s changing its format to focus on pictures people take of their kids and pets, this is even more true for me these days. (Via Straight Talk.) As an aside, when I checked its web page Saturday morning, you would not know four Sioux Falls high school volleyball teams (3 of […]
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More book award news. PEN USA has announced its 2006 Literary Award winners. (Via GalleyCat.) I have not heard of any of the book winners, which include Percival Everett’s Wounded for fiction, Michael Chorost’s Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human for “creative nonfiction” and Adam Hochschild’s Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels […] Joy: Stampede hockey begins! Sadness: Joss Whedon announces the Firefly universe is at an end. (Via Big Dumb Object.) Wonder: Hello from Mars. (Via Kottke.org Remaindered Links.) Misery: Which is worse, the condition or the cure? Pleasure: Being interviewed by NPR’s Nina Totenberg (along with PP) about J.A.I.L. (and waiting until the end to tell […] No wonder my TBR pile and wish lists keep growing and growing. John Scalzi is auctioning a bound copy of the manuscript of his novel, The Last Colony, slated for release in May 2007. Proceeds will go to a book endowment fund at the Minneapolis Public Library and the higher the bid, the more additional […] Word is finally out that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas visited the USD campus on Thursday. It was a “by invitation only” appearance that was kept secret for security reasons. My oldest daughter was among those invited to meet with Thomas. I speculate that is because her honors paper last semester was on the religion […] |
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