Archive for November, 2007

I just got my contributor copy of “Sporty Spec: Games of the Fantastic.” As I mentioned back in June, they purchased a flash fiction piece of mine entitled “The Football Phase.” If you want to read what I write about other things than kitchen appliances, you should buy it here. In addition to my piece, there’s a bunch of other fun fiction and poetry based around the mashing up of SF/Fantasy concepts with sports and games. I haven’t read every piece yet, but I’ve already read a bunch that I’ve quite enjoyed. You should definitely check it out.

So, what I’m doing 40 hours a week thereby cruelly denying you the pleasure of my commentary is working with kids, both in an after school homework club and in an elementary school. About a month ago I was at the elementary school, sitting in on a fourth grade class. They were talking about basic geometric solids. How many sides does this triangular pyramid have? How many edges? Eventually they were getting to comparing and contrasting rectangular prisms and cubes. The teacher asked, “What are some things that are the same about this rectangular prism and this cube?” pointing to examples of each on his overhead projector.

One kid responded, “I bet they both like Harry Potter.”