Category Archives: Personal history

How I Use Bookstores, Past and Present

Posted on Monday 11 April 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Slate, Jeff Deutsch, 9 April 2022: What Kind of Bookstore Browser Are You?, subtitled “We booksellers have seen it all.”

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Little Free Library

Posted on Friday 1 April 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

We have one of these near our house — a block and a half away. It’s been there for a few months now. We pass it frequently when doing short neighborhood walks. The contents are not impressive — mostly thrillers … Continue reading →

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Housekeeping and Bureaucracy

Posted on Monday 28 March 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

First of all today, I’ve tightened the home page of this site by removing the “pinned” profile post with my photo from the top of posts. Instead I’ve condensed that content, and the photo, into the right sidebar. Second, I’ve … Continue reading →

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A Visit to Treasure Island

Posted on Sunday 27 March 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

This is a post about our excursion yesterday, Saturday, which I already posted about on Facebook, but have expanded here somewhat. The photo is a panorama from the west side of Treasure Island looking south, showing the west part of … Continue reading →

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LQC: Sharpest Tools; My Tracking Spreadsheets

Posted on Wednesday 23 March 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Salon, Chauncey DeVega, 23 March 2022: New research on Trump voters: They’re not the sharpest tools in the box, subtitled, “Now there’s proof: Trump’s voters lack ‘cognitive sophistication,’ often believe Bible is literal word of God”

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LQCs: Happiest Nations; Social Constructs; Salesforce Park

Posted on Monday 21 March 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Yesterday we visited Salesforce Park, in the city.

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Musings

Posted on Wednesday 16 March 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

I have several more links about the DST initiative, but for the moment… I’ve created a page on this site called Musings, which is now up there on the top menu bar, where I’m compiling links and summaries to various … Continue reading →

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About Changing SF Book Lengths and Formats

Posted on Thursday 10 March 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Some more SF history, here in drafty first draft; first written last October, cleaned up a bit here. My target for essays like these are the very casual consumers of science fiction books and movies, and even some sophisticated current … Continue reading →

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Emeryville Marina Park

Posted on Saturday 5 March 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Today’s walk was along another one of those several peninsulas that stick out into the Bay from the Berkeley shoreline, this one the southernmost, technically in Emeryville (famous for being the location of Pixar).

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Watching the News

Posted on Monday 28 February 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Yesterday I quoted Robert Reich about the mainstream media — his issues were that they favor the status quo; they lack discussion of critical public choices; and they indulge in false equivalences — and ended by remarking that what I … Continue reading →

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