Wednesday January 1, 2014 New Year's Day

***From the American Name Society mailing list:
On 01/01/2014 11:18 AM, Marc Picard wrote:
The executive director of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence is ... Leah Gunn Barrett.
tinyurl.com/k2sy5cg

***Comments of comment:  Ed Meskys 12/31/13 "Interested to hear how your synesthesia discussion goes. I remember way back in the 50s Pohl’s first STAR SF anthology there was a story about nerve surgery messing up the hero’s senses, and the closing line after an attempted corrective operation, the hero saying 'I smell something purple.'"

H. L. Gold, "The Man With English." See the Internet Speculative Fiction Data Base, http://www.isfdb.org

And I remember that line as "What smells purple?"

"Wish I could be there for the Wrede talk. I loved her four enchanted forest books, [Mairelon] the Magician, and her and Stevermer’s SORCERY AND CECELIA & sequels. I do not remember the frontier magic books. Can you name some titles after her talk?"

Earlier.  From the Internet Speculative Fiction Data Base:  Frontier Magic
1 Thirteenth Child (2009) by Patricia C. Wrede
2 Across the Great Barrier (2011) by Patricia C. Wrede
3 The Far West (2012) by Patricia C. Wrede

***Aug. 9 "The police in Palo Alto, Calif., crack down on people begging for bitcoins."
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/31/opinion/the-year-that-will-be.html?ref=opinion&_r=0

***"My first writing mentor, Annie Dillard, once told our college class that if you ever have the choice between visiting a far-flung place or reading a book about it, choose the book."
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/29/china-of-my-mind/?ref=opinion&_r=0

"Who are you going to believe -- the nonfiction writer or your lying eyes?"

***From Twitter:
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