Fry on Language
Because this is a good reminder and because I love listening to Stephen Fry talk . . .
Me and My Stuff
Since I’m traveling a bunch this summer (3ish weeks in the SF/Bay area, a couple of weeks in New England with some stops in NY and a brief excursion to MD likely), I’ve been considering what I will be taking with me on these trips and am just about 100% certain that I’ll be leaving …
If You Want to be a Writer You Need to Listen
This morning, as I am occasionally wont to do, I stopped at Kiva Han to get a breakfast burrito and a coffee before heading in to do my marketing hours for the department. I took out my earphones when ordering and then didn’t put them back in while waiting for my food or for the …
Getting All Emotional in My Middle Age
I don’t cry very often. Even during last semester, which was hard and miserable and lonely and made me feel completely unsure of myself and my abilities as a student, teacher, and scholar, I only actually cried a couple of times. However. I find myself, the older I get, the more apt I am to …
We Can be So Beautiful as a Species Sometimes
This took my breath away and made me tear up. Here’s the full length video of the Virtual Choir 2.0 (2052 voices strong!) singing Whitacre’s composition “Sleep”
So Much New Music Coming Out
So. Much. Good. Music. As I write this, I’m listening to Paul Simon’s new album, So Beautiful or So What and am blown away by how fresh, how vital, how powerful this music is and how relevant Simon remains as an artist and a musician. And that is just the tip of the iceberg. Here …
Couch to 5k
Wherein I discuss starting the Couch to 5k program.
Isn’t this enough? Just this world?
I love this piece by TIm Minchin and the animated short film of it just came out today.
Wherein I Read My First Full Length Story of PodCastle
It’s called The Wizard’s Apprentice, it’s written by Delia Sherman and read by moi. To tell you the truth, I’m not happy with the recording quality and production of it and was planning on re-recording it after the semester ended, but I guess I’m going to hold off on that since the author liked the reading and I should see if other people have issues. It may be that I’m just being hypercritical . . . well, actually no, it could be better and I definitely have had cleaner sounding podcasts in the past. So, we’ll see. I won’t do anything for about a month anyway.
You can hear it here.