Eleanor Arnason's Web Log

Today is May 12, 2020. I am two months into the coronavirus lockdown and thinking maybe I will try to post to my blog. One problem is all th...

I have been doing facebook instead of my blog for the past year. The blog feels like me speaking into a void. I like the interaction of face...

My favorite apple is the Haralson. (See above.) Patrick likes the Prairie Spy. (See below.) I clearly need to get down to the Farmers Marke...

I will be at Gaylaxicon in Minneapolis (October 18-20) and at Icon in Cedar Rapids, Iowa (November 1-3). That's it for the year.I am t...

There is a current discussion about changing the name of the Tiptree Award, since Tiptree/Alice Sheldon killed her husband before killing he...

I keep going back to Brexit, I think as a way to avoid thinking about American politics. This leads me to the Gramsci quote: “The crisis con...

I'm reading a collection of interviews with Le Guin and thinking about the ways our writing is similar. (I have been called Le Guin-like...

I rode the bus out to the Megamall (aka the Mall of America) for mall walking. The sumac is turning red, and there are lots of wild flowers ...

I have decided to reactivate my blog, in the hopes of reaching more people than I reach on facebook.

This was not entirely new. Advertising goes back to the 19th century. One of my two favorite Dorothy Sayers' novels is set in an adverti...

More from facebook: This is more about a discussion I had yesterday -- in reaction to someone who found most SFF that was more than ten ye...

From facebook: Someone who shall be nameless wrote elsewhere that she figured most SFF written before the last decade is problematic, I as...

Once again I have let two months slip by without posting. We are mostly unpacked now. A guy came yesterday to install new blinds, which look...

I just learned that John Oliver Simon has died. I knew he was in poor health, but this is still unexpected. John was in my class at college....