http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/ Benjamin Rosenbaum's unregenerate musings on writing, parenting, technology, politics, speculative fiction, fabulism, imaginary friends, and shiny gumballs. en-us webmaster@benjaminrosenbaum.com 2010-07-22T03:07:58+01:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/archives/2010_07.html Readercon was great fun. I am now just returning from a lovely three-family beach vacation with old friends, and a... 835@http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/ 2010-07-22T03:07:58+01:00 http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/archives/2010_07.html Friday A Dramatic Reading of A Midsummer Night's Dream 12:00–3:00 pm, RI I was Oberon in high school. I... 836@http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/ Writing Announcements 2010-07-07T14:17:07+01:00 http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/archives/2010_07.html [Crossposted to shareable.net] There was a moment, sometime near the end of the last century, when it rather suddenly... 831@http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/ Philosophizing 2010-07-02T10:19:44+01:00 http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/archives/2010_06.html [Crossposted to shareable.net] Well, my original plan was to write next about my ambivalence towards capitalism, and how I... 834@http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/ Writing 2010-06-10T18:14:25+01:00 http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/archives/2010_06.html This came up in the comment thread of that last post on shareable.net; I answered it there, but it seems... 830@http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/ Children 2010-06-03T18:42:48+01:00 http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/archives/2010_05.html 824@http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/ Writing 2010-05-22T09:39:04+01:00 http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/archives/2010_05.html When Noah and Aviva were babies, any sufficiently downtempo, soothing, ideally minor-key tune would work to conk them out. Now,... 773@http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/ Children 2010-05-14T10:37:00+01:00 http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/archives/2010_05.html Having been caught unawares by the minaret ban, I did not want to make the same mistake now that the... 827@http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/ Philosophizing 2010-05-10T12:05:12+01:00 http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/archives/2010_05.html If you are in NYC on May 14th, apparently you can see Nick Fox-Gieg's award-winning film of my story "The... 826@http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/ Writing Announcements 2010-05-10T11:53:09+01:00 http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/archives/2010_05.html I suspect Noah may have been calling Skip Moles again: he and his minions have taken to building a robot... 825@http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/ Other Things That Happen 2010-05-08T06:45:49+01:00 http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/archives/2010_05.html There's something that Mary Anne Mohanraj and I did a few Wiscons ago that I'd like to propose, and popularize,... 822@http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/ Writing 2010-05-06T17:06:25+01:00 http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/archives/2010_05.html I'll probably have to leave the SignOut early to make my plane. Anyone heading back to Chicago by car around... 821@http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/ Writing Announcements 2010-05-05T21:11:17+01:00 http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/archives/2010_04.html Ego-googling harvest of the day: over at Rudy Rucker's blog he is talking about my and Cory's novella "True Names"...... 819@http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/ Writing 2010-04-20T16:26:07+01:00 http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/archives/2010_04.html So how much longer would this volcano have to keep erupting (a year? five years?), for us to get commercial... 818@http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/ Philosophizing 2010-04-19T11:53:31+01:00 http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/archives/2010_04.html First, some background. About a year or so after 9/11, when that tragedy started getting abused to justify a massively... 817@http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/ Philosophizing 2010-04-14T18:25:26+01:00