Discussion among Fantasy afficionado friends and colleagues today brought to light a very mean-spirited and mealy-mouthed profile story from Wired Magazine, by a certain Jason Kehe, about an author who is unbelievably successful, but about whom even some fans of Fantasy literature may not know much. At first it came Continue Reading
“I came here to kick ass and banish snakes… And I don’t see no snakes…” : Snakes on a ‘splain – the Real History of Saint Patrick and His Day
So! Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! Happy Spring Equinox! [there follows the transcription, lightly edited, of an ex tempore lecture to students delivered during the Plague Years, and thus recorded for them as a video, in a playground full of Spring flowers, birdsong, and the sound of playing children, rendering the Continue Reading