I wish the best possible thoughts for Mr. Michael Schaub and his brother. For understandable reasons, Mr. Schaub not been blogging of late over at Bookslut. Do send the Schaubs some positive juju. I wish his brother the best possible recovery.

If you have emailed me in the past two weeks (and, in particular, while I was in Wisconsin), the inbox has been whittled down to under 100 messages. I will get to you soon.

At PASCAL, well, I’m number one / Do vector calculus just for fun / I ain’t got a gat but I got a soldering gun / “Happy Days” is my favorite theme song / I could sure kick your butt in a game of ping pong / I’ll ace any trivia quiz you bring on / I’m fluent in JavaScript as well as Klingon

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(Original Chamillionaire video for full appreciation.)

David Milofsky recently interviewed me for this Denver Post article about the role of literary blogs. To clarify, the fruit basket was set to Lev Grossman as a gesture of good will and the fruit itself was not intended to be injurious. (See here.)

The Courier: “A Caney Creek High School dad is fired up because the Conroe Independent School District uses the book ‘Fahrenheit 451′ as classroom reading material. Alton Verm, of Conroe, objects to the language and content in the book. His 15-year-old daughter Diana, a CCHS sophomore, came to him Sept. 21 with her reservations about reading the book because of its language….’It’s just all kinds of filth,’ said Alton Verm, adding that he had not read ‘Fahrenheit 451.’” (Emphasis added.)