Every time I leave Ohio it gets a little harder. Back in Boston on Sunday or so, and regular blogging will resume then. Probably. Happy New Year, everybody.
Yes, it’s an old blog tradition in which I like to participate. When I remember. Which, admittedly, isn’t often.
November 26, 2008
12:39 am
After a hu-u-u-u-uge push tonight, I’ve managed to get my NaNoWriMo novel more or less back on track. Still a ways to go yet in too little time, and good Lord why won’t the NaNo system update its tracker already, but I’m now at 41,355 words where I was at 36,764 when I woke up […]
November 19, 2008
9:40 pm
Adding further fuel to the tempestuous insanity that has been this week, I’ve had two somewhat interconnected papers accepted to two more conferences coming up this spring! First is the 2009 American Comparative Literature Association Conference, which takes place at Harvard March 26-29. This overlaps a bit with the tail end of the 2009 Game […]
November 18, 2008
11:29 am
A bit of a hiccup in my NaNoWriMo scribblings, due to this turning out to be an incredibly tempestuous week (and it’s only Tuesday). Big news is breaking here in the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT, which I’ll link to as soon as it is officially announced… And now the cat is out of […]
November 11, 2008
5:55 pm
My campaign to dominate the American media-on-the-media continues in a sound bite I provided for the New York Daily News article called “The Q factor: How the science behind James Bond’s gadgets was reinvented“. For added awesomeness, I even got the last word on the subject – and the subject is fantastical doohickeys.
As longtime readers of this blog know, I started my Master’s degree at MIT in 2005, finished it in 2007 and then immediately went to work at MIT as the Communications Director for both Comparative Media Studies (the program where I’d earned said master’s) and for the newly-formed Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab. I was completely […]
This has been an amazing month for attending lectures. First there was Kelly Link at the Harvard Book Store, reading to promote her new book Pretty Monsters; then there was Jonathan Carroll at the Harvard Book Store, reading to promote his new book The Ghost in Love; then this week there was Maria Tatar and […]
Courtesy of the lovely Small Beer Press newsblog comes my discovery of a new favorite group. Ever heard of the Winterpills? No? Then get thyself over to their official site or their Virb.com page and give their stuff a listen. Close harmonies, beautifully wistful and poetic lyrics (as SBP notes, yes, “You were born immortal […]
