Sunday Tidbits : The First 2017 Edition

:: A few Sunday Tidbits for you :: A lovely flash fiction story on what Cassandra also saw that she did not tell the Trojans about… 2017 in (potential) Bright Comets :: If you don’t already have Astro Bob on your RSS Feed /…

Fantasy, Science Fiction, Imagination, Faith, and Modernity

There has been quite the internet blog-o-sphere to do revolving around Michael Weingrad’s essay “Why There Is No Jewish Narnia“, which led to D.G. Myers asserting that “Fantasy is a Genre of Christianity“, where upon E.D. Kain proposes that it is not Christianity but…

Scalzi & Sullivan & Burland

No, not a law or architecture firm, but two links that I enjoyed today plus a good debate from the other day. John Scalzi on Holden Caulfield: “I never got Holden Caulfield anyway. This partially due to having my own reading tastes bend towards…

The First Anniversary of the Seal Beach Salon This Saturday!

I may have invited y’all before, but the Seal Beach art | music | writing salon meets once every two months for a night of art, music, and poetry/reading – and drinking & snacking & talking. It really is a mishmash of folk from…

Sex in the City or Extensive Handholding in the Countryside, I Prefer the Second

The movie “Sex in the City” was released today. My reaction is “meh.” A friend sent around an email to a group of us asking if we wanted to go to lunch or to see “Sex in the City”. I voted for lunch. Date…