My love for Downton Abbey has turned to ashes. It wasn’t even the rape of Anna, although as the astute J. Kathleen Cheney pointed out, to use the sublime Kiri Te Kanawa to sing the most beautiful aria in the world, O mio babbino caro, while crosscutting to the rape did a severe disservice to the music and the star. No, it was the following episode, when it was clear the writers were simply placing Read more…
February 21-23, 2014 It’s official; I will be at ConDFW XIII this year, February 21-23. For more information on the convention, check out their web page. This is an excellent regional convention, and the guests of honor include Kevin J. Anderson and artist Alain Viesca. I’m looking forward to it. For many years I’ve been unable to make it to this convention, but this year the stars aligned. I’ll be coming in very late on Friday Read more…
The house has been de-Christmased at last, although it’s still a cluttered disaster. I have been reading everyone’s Facebook comments and had to laugh — we are all feeling a deep need to declutter and re-organize. Picking January 1 as the start of the new year may be artificial, but it still triggers a primordial desire to start anew, even if we are in the dead of winter. Well, except Austin’s winter is a bit Read more…