The news came in around 1:30am (did you stay up for it?). America’s latest Mars rover, the aptly named Curiosity, made a successful landing on the surface of a planet that is, at this moment, almost 155 million miles away. At that distance, it takes roughly fourteen minutes for the signals relaying …
It’s been quiet silent around here for quite some time, for which I’m sorry. On the other hand, I don’t really regret it, if you see the difference. Because the honest truth is that it’s been quiet because I’ve been ridiculously busy (even for me!). Here’s the run-down of the …
Things have been so busy over the past weeks that I completely forgot to post notice of another article appearing in print. The Spring/Summer 2012 issue of Mythlore — a peer-reviewed journal of Tolkien, Lewis, Williams, and mythopoeic literature — has my article “The Myths of the Author: Tolkien and …
Since I’ve received word that I’m going to get tenure, you’d think that I might have more free time. That’s probably the case for more than a few academics, who reach this big milestone and then promptly cease working. Not me, though. It seems like I’m busier than ever. Oh, …
When it happens it’s a quiet thing. I didn’t expect it to come with trumpets or fanfare, of course — indeed I can’t say that I’d ever thought about what to expect at all — but now that it’s here I find myself thinking about the how even as I …