My friend and fellow Fellow Jeremy Manier wrote The New Theology, a nuanced, well-crafted look at the question of design since Darwin. He covers every aspect of the design debate since Darwin published The Origin of Species in 1859, and he has lots of interesting perspective sprinkled around in it. Plus one startling conversion caused by Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club band.
He’s filling in for the striking Hollywood screenwriters with his automated “Monolog-a-tron.”
My favorite:
With imported oil nearing $100 a barrel, California Governor Schwarzenegger has suggested that the state’s residents switch to heating their homes with a resource more plentiful in California,
(for the answers, click on the link above…)
There’s a fundraiser Nov. 8 at Google for a documentary being made about the first programmers. They were the women who programmed the ENIAC. Their story is remarkable. The filmmaker, Kathy Kleiman, is an old friend of mine, and one of the programmers will be at Google for the event.
It’s time to go past living the life of Reilly. I breakfasted this morning with my old freelancing friend Kathleen Flinn. She was in town as part of the tour for her new book, The Sharper the Knife, the Less You Cry. It’s a love story about her year at Le Cordon Bleu (and also her now-husband), and her publisher is giving her major love — she has a 16-city book tour and we dined on $10 oatmeal at the Taj Boston (formerly Boston’s Ritz Carlton). Getting a publisher to pay for a tour, let alone one that involves staying in a high-end hotel, is a pretty sweet thing in this day and age, when most of my book author friends can’t get their publishers to buy an ad for their book.
As if a big tour and promo campaign isn’t enough, two other groups have signed Kathleen up to lead tours of Paris next year. One is through AAA and the other is a contest for a trip to Paris.
To think I knew Kathleen when she was just a struggling freelancer in Chicago.
I just got off the phone with my friend Niall McKay, and got the great news that a documentary he’s proposed about his father, The Bass Player, has gotten funding. Niall also has a series of other projects that he’s pursuing, such as this PBS project on Sikhs in America. I’m jazzed for Niall, who has a special talent for telling powerful stories featuring everyday folk. I can’t wait to see these!
Niall had other good news, too, but I’m not at liberty to share…