I had no idea about the VanExel for Jamison deal that’s going to happen on Monday, I guess. Mark Cuban is so sneaky. It’ll be interesting to see what happens to the Mavs after the trade.

There’s an article in the Chronicle, Sweet, Savage Academe: True Confessions of a Pulp Professor, that examines what its like to write romance novels while being a professor, and also gives an overview of how academia has treated romance novels as a subject of study.

I read 1602. It goes without saying that I lurve Neil Gaiman, and I am so happy to see an incarnation of Dr. Strange, back in a comic and up to his usual mystic tricks. However, one of the reasons why I dig Dr. Strange was his tendency to be the most alliterative superhero. Why isn’t the 1602 Dr. Strange being all alliterative and yelling things like “By the Dread Dormammu!” or “Howling Hounds of Hogoth!” I guess I can always hope for for that in a later issue.