This fun little exercise popped up on Facebook, but I decided to do it here (and leave off the “tag everyone you’ve ever met” or similar instructions; I don’t tag). But feel free if you think it looks like fun. To make your band’s album cover, do the following: 1 – To get the name …
I’m pleased to announce that thanks to my book Historic Walks of Regina and Moose Jaw (Red Deer Press), I’ve been awarded a Municipal Heritage Award by the City of Regina. (I posted about it being nominated back in November.) The award was presented tonight at the beginning of the City Council meeting by Mayor …
[podcast]http://edwardwillett.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/gray-hair.mp3[/podcast] Look, I hate to be the one to break it to you, but you’re growing older. Every second. Even worse, so am I. There are many manifestations of the aging process, most of which are far too depressing to go into, especially on a morning in late February. Still, we must all face facts …
It’s a good news, bad news situation. (Well, baddish news.) First, the good news: my agent informs me that DAW wants to buy my proposed fantasy novel, currently titled Magebane. The bad news: I’ll have to write it under a pseudonym. As this is explained to me, my SF novels with DAW–Lost in Translation, Marseguro, …
Here’s the written version of my review for CBC’s Afternoon Edition today of last night’s opening performance of Wingfield’s Inferno at Globe Theatre. As they say in the political-speech-writing-biz, “check against delivery.” *** Globe Theatre’s latest mainstage offering, Wingfield’s Inferno, opened last night in Regina, and Edward Willett was there to see it. Q. So, …
Yes, of course I’d already read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, but not for many, many years–probably not since I was a teenager in fact. And you know what? It holds up. For a 40-year-old science fiction novel, it holds up very well indeed. My wife and I read this one together, and she …
…, the Regina Symphony Orchestra’s concert on Saturday night, is online at the LeaderPost. It begins: If the Regina Symphony Orchestra’s “Opera for Skeptics” Valentine’s Day concert was intended to convince people to fall in love with the art form, it probably failed, since very little actual opera was presented. After all, there were no …
How often have you heard someone say, “I just can’t tell a joke?” How often have you then heard the person who made that self-deprecating claim attempt to do just that? According to recent research, if you truly believe the former, you should stick to your guns, because telling a bad joke in a social …
Type your first name and “likes to” in quotation marks into Google and post the first 10 things that come up. So (with judicious editing, because among the things that come up are other people playing the same game)… “Edward likes to”… …get out into the countryside to blast the cobwebs away. …pose. …pick his …
…is now online at the LeaderPost. It begins: The word “opera” frightens some people, conjuring up images of giant women in breastplates and horned helmets screeching at the top of their lungs. Saturday at 8 p.m., the Regina Symphony Orchestra hopes to change that perception with its next Mosaic Masterworks Concert, Opera for Skeptics — …
…to be one of the poets at the CBC Poetry Face-Off I attended last Friday, at which all the poems were based on the word “flight,” I’ve been wondering, what would I have written? Something like this, probably… FLIGHT They asked me to write about flight.I wonder, can this be quite right?I sit in my …
I’ve managed to post more regularly to Futurismic in the last little while, so I thought I’d provide some links to what I’ve recently put up over there, should you be looking for more cool-tech-and-science blogging: Life-size telepresence robots make their appearance Universal Robots take over the world…on stage MIT researchers create cheap “sixth-sense” ubiquitous …
