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 …
I have occasionally made reference to the fact that I can sing, and now I have vidographic proof! This is from Lyric Musical Theatre’s fundraising brunch, which ran the last two Sundays at the Hotel Saskatchewan. Enjoy! Got a little choked up there at the end because I made the tactically problematic though strategically sound …
With Valentine’s Day looming at the end of this week (well, looming for those who have not yet given sufficient thought to cards, flowers and chocolates–I’m looking at you, fellow members of my gender), it seems a good time to revisit the science of kissing. And just in time for Valentine’s, new research on the …
…, coming up Sunday afternoon at the MacKenzie Art Gallery, is in today’s LeaderPost. An excerpt: Sunday’s concert will feature (Jeremy) Buzash and Eduard Minevich on violin; Jonathan Ward on viola; Amelia Borton on cello; Pauline Minevich on clarinet; Cecile Denis on harp and David McIntyre on piano. Titled “A Sound Vision,” the concert will …
