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This is the second-most-wonderful interview with Maurice Sendak ever. You might want headphones if you have kids or sensitive co-workers. The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive I’m in Albany for work, and have [...]

Minus the YouTube, of course.

In a nice warm enclosed-atmosphere sleigh. One of the most fascinating things about this, beyond the obvious “It’s another PLANET!!!!” thrill, is how useless terrestrial ideas of pattern and scale are. I spend a lot of time looking at satellite and aerial imagery, and still couldn’t tell you how large or what some of these [...]

Is this tree. There’s quite a bit of discussion on the Legos for girls I mentioned earlier. Best bits I’ve seen: This 1981 ad for Legos. Based on one data point, we’ve come a long way… backward. And this article by Tansy Rayner Roberts, with my favorite quote on the topic: “Our girls should have [...]

She said she was going to Irkutsk. He didn’t believe her. She said she wanted to travel, to find something new, to understand the world a little better. After 27 years of marriage, he knew when she was lying. She went anyway. The suit he wore to the wedding was still in the closet, shoved [...]

I’ve been accumulating things. Time to pass them on. The Moscow dogs and the Chicago coyotes: fascinating examples of canine adaptability to urban environments. The Moscow dogs have so far done a better job of fitting into urban patterns, possibly because they come from stock selected for dealing well with people over the past few [...]

Last year, Tamie got me a zombie to celebrate the launch of Rigor Amortis. This year, she got him an undead girlfriend. (She obviously hasn’t read my story, or she would have gotten two girls instead.) Zombie boy is courting her quite sweetly. They even went on a date this afternoon. And now they’re sitting [...]

A tiny crescent moon, just past new, hovered in the west. Rick hadn’t seen so many stars in years. Ruined castles were a good place to escape light pollution, he supposed. And with no roof on this section, there was nothing to interfere with moongazing. Not that he had any interest in that himself. Of [...]

I knew there should be pirate music, but didn’t realize what until I was walking home.

Today is Talk Like a Pirate Day. This isn’t a holiday I normally celebrate, except to acknowledge the silliness that is the Internet, but this morning’s nag email from Google Calendar said, “You have no events scheduled today” so why not? (I love that email subject line: it makes my day to see it in [...]