The Second Annual Shorelines Reunion
After my breakfast with Sean Howe at Shopsin’s Saturday morning, and a brief visit to the Museum of Comics and Cartoon Art, I headed north for lunch with high-school friends at Nice-Matin, proving...
View ArticleThe Road Goes Ever On and On
Let’s step into the Wayback Machine, shall we? The photo below, taken at South Shore High School by pal Barry Chaiken, shows me a few months before my 18th birthday, just as I was about to head off to...
View ArticleArchy and Mehitabel and me
Earlier today over at io9, Charlie Jane Anders posted about Archy and Mehitabel, the philosopher cockroach and the alley cat created by Don Marquis 99 years ago in the pages of the New York Sun. Back...
View ArticleWARNING: Once seen, this photo of me cannot be unseen
Apparently, the Internet trolls have their knives out for John Scalzi tonight. (But is there ever a night during which the Internet trolls don’t have their knives out for John Scalzi?) After he posted...
View ArticleShorelines survivors
As much as I enjoyed my brief visit to the annual meeting of the Lewis Carroll Society as recounted in my previous posts, the primary reason I’d headed into Manhattan occurred later that day—a...
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