Michele e-filed our tax return on Monday, February 15th (is there a more patriotic way to spend President’s Day?). We’re expecting a chunk back, so we’ve been watching for the refund. When she e-filed, the system told her that turnaround time was 3 to 7 business days. Earlier this week, she checked at the IRS [...]
New review this week: Mario Bava’s Blood and Black Lace (1964). A director whose first love was paintings meets a reviewer whose first love was books. They clash. Also, we now own a cockatiel. That is all.
I’m currently on the train to head home, and the fellow sitting across the little desk from me is valiantly trying to study a physics text, despite the fact that apparently physics bores him to unconsciousness. His head dips lower… and lower… and lower… and yes, his nose is finally on the page. Yet another [...]
Last night was so stacked with church stuff that I didn’t sit down for my normal Wednesday site update until after 9:30pm, which meant I finished up just shy of midnight. That’s very important when your alarm goes off at 5am, you know. And of all the places in which I normally announce my new [...]
The following are some remarks I delivered over the pulpit today in Sacrament Meeting. *** There are many myths about marriage nowadays. Common ones are that it is for convenience, that it is only for the good times, and that a lifelong marriage is old-fashioned, restrictive and boring. We who are committed to the restored [...]
As promised (or vaguely hinted at), here is the PDF version of the presentation on the history of B-movies I gave yesterday at LTUE. I want you that this is the point form accompaniment to the lecture, and may seem fragmentary without my lecture notes, which are fragments themselves, more mnemonic devices than a full [...]
If you’re in the Utah area, you’re probably familiar with Life, the Universe and Everything (LTUE), the annual SF/fantasy symposium held at BYU. It runs this Thursday through Saturday, and I’ll be there on Friday for a couple of panels. (Yup — they’re running five or six panels that were my suggestion, but I only [...]
I understand that you probably don’t speak Swedish. Neither do I. All you need to know is that unseen terrorists attack an Idol-ish show on Swedish TV, and there’s only one man who can set things right.
This is what I get for not blogging more promptly. Had I written on Saturday, I could have told you about the Boy Scout “Klondike” winter camp that I went on with my sons Friday night. But I put that off until Sunday. And then Sunday, my daughter Sariah got hit by a car. Relax, [...]
Fair warning: Mormon content ahead. I don’t apologize for believing my religion, so if faith that is really faith offends you, well… This past weekend was a momentous one. Brenda, who had been Michele’s friend for ten years, her husband Darrin, and their three children — ages 22, 12, and 9 — were all baptized [...]
