Living the Liminal

I am killing some time before I can meet Jeff in Dallas, so I came by Waco Lake to hang out for a couple of hours and do some reading or just chill in a quiet spot. It’s very quiet here and I’m enjoying listening to acorns fall and fish jump.

Tomorrow I am leaving Las Cruces and heading up to Roswell, NM. Considering my love of science fiction and interest in space and aliens and conspiracies, it seemed a shame to leave NM without visiting, even though I know it will be cheesy and tourist-y. Still, it should be fun. After I spend a couple [...]

Richard Wright, the keyboardist whose somber, monumental sounds were at the core of Pink Floyd’s art-rock that has sold millions and millions of albums, died Monday in London, where he had lived. He was 65.

[From Richard Wright, Member of Pink Floyd, Dies at 65 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com]

In this political season of lies, lies and more lies, of idiots and incompetents, of selfishness and greed, and of the basest human instincts, it’s nice to be occasionally reminded that our species can be pretty amazingly smart and clever sometimes. I mean, we have figured out how to find specific molecules floating around in [...]

“Anathem” (Neal Stephenson)

I’m currently about halfway through Stephenson’s latest book and it is an amazing, rich, thought-provoking, deeply intellectual, and engrossingly emotional novel. The kind of novel that you want to live in for a good long while. Even though I have over 400 pages to go, I’m already a bit sad that [...]

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In my play, “Going Out” I wrote

The dream/true transition tends to . . . fuck things up. Sometimes. Don’t you think?

Now, that transition between dreams and actuality does not necessarily lead to fucking things up, but it is a transition and no passage, no journey is ever the same as the plans for that passage [...]

The Bourne Political Analysis
So he’s only an actor, but he makes some damn good points.

David Tennant Watch Out
This is one reason I love Doctor Who: it’s the kind of show that inspires and makes people want to be a hero. Sure, I can quibble with some of the episodes and the writing and feel like [...]

Paul Stamets is not the most dynamic speaker, and sometimes it may be hard to follow the thread of his argument, but I guarantee that some of his ideas will blow your mind with possibilities and you’ll learn a side if fungi that is decidedly more interesting that a portobello mushroom sandwich.

I wonder why McCain hates poor people so much? Probably because he spent five years as a POW.

Obama and McCain Tax Proposals
According to a new analysis by the Tax Policy Center, a joint project of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution, Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain are both proposing tax [...]