Flogging Babel

. I'm making the final changes to The Iron Dragon's Mother, which is why, of late, I haven't been as active here I shoul...

. If I have a weakness -- and everybody agrees that's understating it -- it's that I'm overfond of stuffy old compilations...

. So there's this monthly reading series called Galactic Philadelphia , which is held in the Irish Pub in (no prizes for guess...

. I have news. In April, Dark Horse comics will publish Once Upon A Time Machine: Greek Gods and Legends . It's volume two of an ...

. It's that time of year again, the one we call Almost Christmas. Which, as we all know, is the time when this blog traditionally...

. I was in Bombay Hook yesterday and it was a great day for birding. All told, Marianne and I saw nine bald eagles, including two in a...

. My friend and occasional editor, Gabrielle Wei , knowing of my fondness for writing on leaves, sent me the above picture of a ginkgo...