It begins.
Coming attractions.
In which I announce Gospel of the Trees 2.0.
I was, am, and will be here for Richard Polt’s Analog College.
Yeah, I’ve been doing this a while.
What I like about this is that it shows that I’ve been working primarily in plain text files for 25 years. I had already largely abandoned word processors by 1995.
Theo Epstein: Baseball “is the greatest game in the world, … but there are some threats to it because of the way the game is evolving, and I take some responsibility for that because the executives like me who have spent a lot of time using analytics and other measures to optimize individual and team performance have unwittingly had a negative impact on the aesthetic value of the game and the entertainment value of the game.”
I think Theo is correct, as well I might, because I wrote an essay about this very thing a couple of years ago. After half a century of being a pretty serious baseball fan, I haven’t watched a game since I wrote that essay — and, to my own ongoing surprise and puzzlement, I haven’t missed baseball at all.
Things many people who haven’t published don’t understand: We writers rarely have any control over (1) titles of essays and articles, (2) subtitles of books, (3) cover art for books. And we absolutely never have any say in pricing.
Just discovered that a fairly generous except of my biography of C. S. Lewis is available online — as a PDF — complete with the absolutely hideous cover image that I fruitlessly protested against when it was shown to me.