A Category Index
A Category Index
Blog Highlights (some of my favorite stops)
And he’s written a book too...
Have You Ever Been to Tai Shan?
Guest Blogging, Slots, and Haiku
Book Club Discussion — The Man Who Walked Through Time
The Man Who Walked Through Time
Book Club Discussion to Begin This Week
Vast Expanses of Space and Time
A Curiously In-between Existence
Fill in the Gaps 100 Books in 5 Years (Reviews)
Review: Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Frankenstein
The Natural, the Supernatural, and Overreaching
Society, Isolation, and Achieving Greatness
Gender Issues
Are Math Departments Finally Catching Up?
He Can’t Be Un-neutered... can he?
Great Expectations
Refined Speech and Coarse Talk
Historical Fiction
A Sense of Place, in so many words
Recommended Reading: Singapore
New Ethics for New Technologies
Hit (or Miss) Lists
Movies
The Bible in One Hand, and Shakespeare in the Other
When Art is Taken Over by Pop Culture
Slings and Arrows (television)
Love and Power (or is it the Love of Power?)
Poetry and Politics (Max)
I Saw it Against My Better Judgment, but... (Kung Fu Panda)
Back By Popular Demand (The Matrix)
Shakespearean Tragedy in Asian Cinema
Heiner Müller
Popular Culture
When Art is Taken Over by Pop Culture
Is Popular Culture Worth the Time?
James Bond, Superman, and Umberto Eco
Reunion with a Childhood Friend
Poetry
Speculative Poetry, August ’08 update
Speculative Poetry, Sept ’08 update
Speculative Poetry, Oct ’08 Update
Speculative Poetry, Nov ’08 Update
Speculative Poetry, Jan ’09 update
Speculative Poetry, Feb ’09 Update
Speculative Poetry, March ’09 update
Speculative Poetry, April ’09 update
On Reading a Poem About the Poet Reading a Poem
Speculative Poetry, May ’09 Update
Racism
Sometimes You Find What You Are Looking For
Shakespeare
Cross Dressing and Disguise on Shakespeare’s Stage
The Importance of Garments and Dress in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline
The Troubling Question of Genre
I Met William Shakespeare Yesterday
The Bible in One Hand, and Shakespeare in the Other
When Art is Taken Over by Pop Culture
Love and Power (or is it the Love of Power?)
Review of TNT Britain’s Hamlet
Shakespearean Tragedy in Asian Cinema
What’s so Tragic About Tragedy?
Shakespeare for a Cartoon Generation
When Hamlet Meets the Godfather
Speculative Fiction
New Ethics for New Technologies
The Stage
Review of TNT Britain’s Hamlet
What’s so Tragic About Tragedy?
Shakespeare for a Cartoon Generation
When Hamlet Meets the Godfather
Translation
A Lack of Competence in the Target Language
Are You Fluent in the Language if You Don’t Know What a Plunger is Called?
The Meru Project and Anna Wierzbicka
Word Study
Knowledge, Learning, and Wisdom
Memes and Things
What do I Expect from this Blog?
Things You Didn’t Want to Know
Someone Thinks I’m a Literary Geek... can you believe it?
4 Books Battles
Other Stuff
In My Completely Objective, Unprejudiced, Fair-Minded, Unbiased, and Humble Opinion
I Don’t Know Much About Writing...
Doing Things a Little Differently
I Can’t Believe I Made the Cut
Am I Really Saying What I Think I Am Saying?








