Tonight I will attend a banquet for an incoming crop of college students: The new “knobs,” as they’re known here at The Citadel. These will be our newest Honors students, some very bright and most accomplished young men and women who hope to join the Long Grey Line of The …
If you know anything about me you probably know that I am fascinated by a great many things in life, some of them quite obvious to those who read my musings here on the site. Perhaps less obviously than my interests in the Middle Ages and science and Tolkien and …
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 …