Voyaging: Shutdown & Startup, Sales, Shots, and Show Times
Ready for another roundup of Voyager news? It's been forty two years (and two months since I posted here), so I should hope so. Here we...
Voyaging: The "Wedding Song" Singer, Citations, and Space Junk
There has been a lot of recent Voyager and Voyager record news lately, so I am going to round them all up here. Maybe this will turn into...
Coincidentify
This past week The Rupture published my review of Permanent Exhibit by Matthew Vollmer. It's a good book, so make sure to check it out...
The Public Domain Class of 1923: Introduction
I love the public domain. What I love even more than the public domain is Creative Commons. Creative Commons offers another fantastic way...
New Horizons Doesn’t Speak for Humanity, But It Does Say Something About a Dark Time for America
Here's an op-ed I wrote that pretty much everyone made clear they don't want to publish so I'm sharing it here now while New Horizons is...
Creating Biography: Bohemian Rhapsody, Carl Sagan, Getting Weird
I'm a sucker for the biopic genre no matter how many details they get wrong so I was probably going to like Bohemian Rhapsody anyway, but...
Living or Writing: On Philip Roth and Calling It Quits
Hearing the news of Philip Roth's death made me think of this old essay I wrote, but never did anything with. I'm publishing it here now...
Typos: Tracing the Voyager Record's Mistakes
A few days ago I wrote about the new record that has emerged now that Ozma Records has identified many of the titles and performers of...
New Record: 40 Years of Changing Contents on the Voyager Golden Record
Today, August 20, marks 40 years since the first of the Voyager spacecrafts, Voyager 2, was launched into space along with a copy of the...
Long Time No Blog
I've been maintaining this kind of beautiful thread of tweets to remind myself how guilty I feel about not being here more often. I...
