-
Mihai: Not Suited to the Dark Ages
I'm justifying this as a writing exercise, taking a character thoroughly out of their original home, finding out what's necessary to the character and what's not. Finding the essence, so to speak.
Anyway. More Mihai, though he has a different name now. I think this is just part one.
( The story! ) -
Another little character story.
For the fanclub! This belongs to the version of Mihai in a different universe than almost all my readers are familiar, but hey, it's super cute.
( Mihai and the tikken ) -
Read Darwin With Me Part I: Introduction and a bit of chapter 1
Well, you gotta start an enterprise like this off right. I'd usually kick off with a cup of tea, but it's hot today, so I'll put that on ice and go ahead and get comfy. I'll be reading out of a nice edition I found on remainder, Darwin: The Indelible Stamp, put together with some essays by James D. Watson.
( For Science! ) -
I have... A project!
I realized last night that I have never read The Origin of Species in its entirety, just excerpts. this annoys me. I know I've tried. I had a book called The Darwin Reader when... I probably still own it. Must be at my parents' house somewhere. Either way, I tried to read that cover to cover when I was in eighth grade, but I wasn't really up to it ( Read more... ) -
These are Petty Literary Gripes Man was not Meant to Hear!
There is a fiction trope I don't care for. It was driven home while watching Event Horizon with folks last night. I'm sure this is a matter of opinion but I have issues with the horror/fantasy premise of "things man was not meant to know."
One issue is it isn't really very scary. Vampires are scary because they play on fears of contamination and ( Read more... ) -
St. Patricks Day
I'm leaving aside the actual religious observance entirely. That's for church ladies or actual people in actual Ireland who have it as a holy day of obligation (somehow?). St. Patrick. Kinda a cool guy. Had a neat hat, came up with cute metaphors about weird theology, intimidated some druids. Whether you're pro- or anti-druid, you gotta admit one ( Read more... ) -
Sometimes I remember that I have a blog.
Kinda. Anyways, I'm trying to think of something clever to say. I've settled on talking about beer.
I was talking to my younger sister today, the high school and not the first-grader, passing on some fragments of wisdom wrapped in enough sarcasm to make sure she'll pay attention. Dad walked by and began to make fun of the beer (which... he had ( Read more... ) -
A character story of not much interest to much of anyone...
The air didn’t feel too cold, but something about it cut to the bone, and Mihai was shivering violently, wound up in an old greatcoat with Bo and Guaril. The two of them weren’t really improving things by bickering across him.
“It’s cold! Of course it’s cold!” Mihai was usually better than most at telling his little brothers apart, but he wasn’ ( Read more... )