My old college pal Chet Farmer, of Miscellaneous Heathen, points out that leap year does not technically happen every four years. Here’s how to identify a leap year: * The year is divisible by 4, and it’s not a century year * The year is divisible by 4, and it’s a century year also divisible by 400. In other words, 1900, while divisible by 4, is not divisible by 400, and so was not a leap year — nor will 2100 be one, either. However, 2000 was. What’s sort of funny about this is that, to a first approximation,...
Monthly Archives: February 2008
Death of William F. Buckley Jr.
William F. Buckley, Jr. died this morning at his home in Connecticut, age 82. Buckley was a prolific writer, former editor of The National Review, television commentator, columnist, and, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, “harpsichordist, trans-oceanic sailor and even a good-natured loser in a New York mayor’s race.” Related: *”The Buckley Effect,” New York Times Magazine, 2005 *Buckley on Wikipedia
Go, Mutants!
Today in Publisher’s Lunch…this looks funny! I can already see the film adaptation. In the time-honored Hollywood tradition of thirty-somethings playing teenagers, I see a starring role for Casey Affleck and one of the ladies from Gossip Girl. Matthew McConaughey in his breakout performance as the principal. Larry Doyle’s second novel GO, MUTANTS!, set in an all-American high school whose juvenile delinquents are the offspring of the giant-brained aliens and atomic monsters immortalized in the golden age of Hollywood B-movies, again to Lee Boudreaux at Ecco, for publication in 2010, by Sarah Burnes at The Gernert Company. To the...
paperback
The Year of Fog is out in paperback today. That’s right! It just got cheaper. Costs less than a movie, people, and it lasts longer! Hurray!
raining on your parade
If you choose to stay indoors for the Chinese New Year parade tonight in San Francisco, you can watch the whole thing live on KTVU (Fox 2), co-hosted by Ben Fong-Torres and Julie Haener. Other indoor activities: I’ll be reading tonight at Cantina in San Francisco for the Babylon Salon series. Join me, Eileen Reynolds, Herb Sandhu, Julie Bifano, and Opium Magazine’s Editor’s Choice reader on Feb. 23 at 7:00 p.m. 580 Sutter Street. The location host is one Duggan McDonnell, whom you may have read about in the San Francisco Chronicle’s recent article, Bar Stars: A Dozen Trendsetters...
The international bestseller about one woman’s search for a missing child…
"Mesmerizing." ~Library Journal, starred review.
Stop dreaming, start writing!
