…as if we didn’t already have enough cranks on the radio, like (insert your favorite right- or left-wing blowhard or annoying morning show host here), here comes another one. Albeit one of more practical use.
…but based on Orson Scott Card’s review (scroll down)–not to mention the fact it was written by Neil Gaiman, directed by Dave McKean, and its visual effects are by the Jim Henson Company–it’s pretty obvious I’m going to have to rent it.
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a supernova… …or is it?
More photos here.
Saskatchewan scenery in the rolling ranch country somewhere between Mossbank and Moose Jaw. More photos here.
I spent Saturday in Mossbank at the Rural History and Culture Association‘s historical re-enactments. I don’t have a photo of me being John G. Diefenbaker, alas, but I got this one of…well, let the plug from the RHCA’s website explain: In 1926, after successfully organizing Ku Klux Klan chapters in Ontario, a group of American …
…have been discovered courtesy of a suspected tomb raider (no, not Lara Croft).
Italian scientists think so. They claim it contains melatonin. Other scientists are unconvinced. Drink enough of it, of course, and sleep you will, albeit under the table.
I received the page proofs and cover proofs for the paperback of Lost in Translation today. Woo-hoo! I’m extremely pleased with this cover by Steve Stone. It looks like a book I’d want to read. I hope readers who’ve never heard of me have the same reaction! Bonus: I didn’t know The Midwest Book Review …
What I see, more or less, as I host Net.talk each week on Access Communications. More photos here.
Performance artist Jess Dobkin is inviting people to “quench their curiosity” and taste samples of pasteurized human breast milk at her upcoming show in Toronto.
