Walter Jon Williams's Blog, page 251

Weird Factoid of the Day

I just found out that while working for Eyre and Spottiswoode--- surely my favourite British publisher, just for the name alone--- Graham Greene edited the first novel of a man better known as a fantasy illustrator:"Greene scrupulously hammers Mervyn Peake for the facetiousness, prolixity, and overwriting in the original manuscript of Titus Groan. Peake, after reeling from the shock, reworked his

The News

Notes from the world:The Army has a problem, in that its soldiers keep getting old and unable to function properly--- just like the rest of us. Unlike the rest of us, the Army has a plan. They're going to use Science to keep their soldiers young for, maybe, ever. A soldier rendered forever young – because of red wine and bald rats? It has the makings of a Jerry Bruckheimer blockbuster, but

Moogaloop

A musical jam from New Orleans to Congo to Moscow. A melodic tribute to the power of the internet.I'm not sure how they cope with the time delay as signals are bounced to HEO and back, but they seem to do it well.There are jam sites, or so I'm told. My Inner Rock Star is complaining that I learned touch typing instead of guitar.(Thanks to Sage Walker)

Pork!

Maybe it's an overreaction to spending three weeks in a Muslim country, but I've been having quite a love affair with the Unutterable Flesh since I've got back.I've grilled pork chops. I've had carne adovada. I've eaten BBQ ribs, and I've enjoyed chorizo.Just now I've finished Julia's recipe for Roti de Porc Grand'Mere, which she doesn't translate as "Grandma's Pork Roast" but as "

Necropolis

Here are pictures of the tombs I promised you. The bottom picture was taken from our hotel room balcony in Dalyan. These are referred to as "Lycian temple tombs," though as it happens these particular tombs are in Caria, and are part of the necropolis of Kaunos, a once-great city whose ruins are now accessible only by water. The Lycians, and I guess the Carians, began building elaborate tombs in

Tombs Across the River

The other day, we could step out onto the balcony of our hotel and view, across the river, the rock-cut temple tombs of Lycia. On the western side of the river, as the tombs are in Egypt.I will have to post a picture once I get home.