I finished Don DeLillo’s novel, The Names a few days ago. It was a bit of a miss for me. I enjoyed the language and also enjoyed a few of the themes he suggests here and there (those about language and media, especially). But I didn’t feel the whole thing really hung together thematically. The [...]

I posted recently about trying to find new essays for use in my ENG 101 classes this fall. Turns out I will be teaching ENG 102 instead. I’m pretty happy with my syllabus for that class, though this weekend I’ll do some fine tuning and see what stays and what goes. Besides the chapters in [...]

Here’s a little internet-literary-mad-scientist project for you: Concord. It’s a online concordance of a growing list of literary works. You can use it to answer amazing and or inane questions like “How many times does the word ‘plump‘ occur in Joyce’s Ulysses

The wife and I have been turning off the TV and amusing ourselves of late with board games. We have quite a few. The last two nights, it’s been Othello (my favorite, as it’s the only game I can win against my lovely opponent, who has super-human abilities at all games, it seems) and Master [...]

Well, maybe. But, then again, maybe not. Josh and I have resumed development of Showlister. We look forward to putting out a nice version 1.0 toward the end of Q3 or early in Q4. This will be the first version to show off Josh’s considerable graphic design and CSS kung-fu. That he’s also handy with [...]