Guy de Bord's Wild Kingdom
For some reason, whenever I walk in the woods, I find stuff like this. Which I am guessing is probably a 1967 Chevy Impala. Discovered as I emerged from tall marsh grass, flushing out a big heron who was rather annoyed I had interrupted his perch.It was found in the floodplain of the Lower Colorado River, about halfway between downtown Austin and the airport. When the water is

Genesis by Crumb
The following appeared, with no article or additional background information, in the Belief/Religion section of the Houston Chronicle:"I used a lot of white-out, a lot of corrections when I tried to draw God."-Illustrator Robert Crumb, describing his four years of work on The Book of Genesis, quoted by USA TodayWho what? Could Illustrator Robert Crumb be the famed underground comix artist who drew Fritz the Cat, which was adapted into an X-rated movie? Yes, the very same Robert Crumb. He has just completed The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb. Religious eyebrows are being raise

Feeling very estranged
To my immense delight, the new issue of the New York Review of Science Fiction features my essay "Feeling Very Estranged: Science Fiction and Society in the Aftermath of the Twentieth Century." An earlier version of of the essay was presented as part of the symposium on "Mundos Paralelos" at the 2009 Festival de Mexico in el Centro Historico put together by author and

When Radagast attacks
This vignette in yesterday's NYT backgrounder on the Fort Hood shooter really packed it in for me, describing Dr. Hasan as:"...a gentle, quiet, deeply sensitive man who once owned a bird that he fed by placing it in his mouth and allow

Election results
Normally I don't radiate patriotic fervor - though I'm more inclined that way than I was a year ago last Tuesday. This year's election day was very special for me too. Because I recently relocated out of one of the small cities inside of Houston (it's kind of like an amoeba that has ingested small