by Jan Bear | Jun 22, 2004 | Uncategorized
I don’t read Charles Williams in quite the same way I read other novels, unless every novel is different, which is a possibility. I don’t read him for the puzzle, for the “Aha! I know that person!,” for the eye-popping descriptions. I know when...
by Jan Bear | Jun 20, 2004 | Uncategorized
I was out yesterday tending our garage sale. A great day for it–hot, in the sun at least. But in the breezy shade under the tree in the front yard, I communed with Charles Williams (+), Elmore Leonard (-) and then Umberto Eco (!) as the people came, looked over...
by Jan Bear | Jun 18, 2004 | Uncategorized
Andrew Damick poses a question that has puzzled me a lot over the years: Why Should the Devil Get All the Good Music? Instead of bemoaning the incroachment of rock ‘n’ roll into the “sanctuary” or observing that the melody to “The...
by Jan Bear | Jun 17, 2004 | Uncategorized
Bloggers are outraged that Dave Winer pulled the plug on their blogs without warning. He’d been hosting 3,000 blogs on his server for free, beginning in 2000. Now, because of time, financial and health demands, he decided that he couldn’t do it any more....
by Jan Bear | Jun 16, 2004 | Uncategorized
Amazon.com WidgetsAbandoned buildings talk–they laugh and gibber and shriek like crazy old ladies. The folks at Dark Passage hear them, too.It’s a tour of some of the creepiest places around, like the tunnel that eats light and comes up under the house...