The weather down south has been unseasonably warm lately. I took advantage and headed up to the Blue Ridge Parkway recently. The trail we were after was gated shut, but we did find a pathway up to the top of Black Balsam Knob. Very cool place – a 6000+ foot mountain
Last year I went to the Decatur book festival to hear Jonathan Franzen do a reading from his latest novel, Freedom. The guy had recently been on the cover of time magazine with the headline “Great American Novelist”, and had just been re-inaugurated to Oprah’s book club (despite pooh-poohing
Delorean – Subiza When I checked iTunes to see what I played most this year, Subiza by Delorean was way out on top. There’s two types of music I listen to – songs that have well-written lyrics and accompanying tones to match the theme. In a sense, narrative music. The other
Every so often I’ll head over to newyorker.com and check out the fiction stories they have posted. Most of the time it’s a drab plotless emotional literary blip by TC Boyle or Alice Monroe, but this particular time it was a compelling piece by Jonathan Lethem – Lostronaut.
I’ve started a new blog over at blogger specifically for the development of PlatformHack, the game I’m building in XNA. The posts may get on the technical side and have a bit of code, and also will be a bit less polished than Daydalus posts, which is why