In response to the article by Michael Weingrad about “Why There Is No Jewish Narnia,” I have decided to investigate the mythological roots of my religion, and so I picked up Tree Of Souls, The Mythology of Judaism, by Howard Schwartz from the library.  It’s a monster tome (pun, intended), clocking in at some six hundred pages.  I think it’s thicker than my phone book.  I’m barely past the introduction, but I’m already brimming with story ideas, and I’m discovering many things I didn’t know.  For example, in orthodox Judaism …

Thanks, John! John Klima of Electric Velocipede gives my story “The Spaces Between Things” his Hugo vote. Also of note, friend and fellow Fluidian Saladin Ahmed, whom John suggests for the Campbell Award: http://blog.electricvelocipede.com/2010/03/2010-hugo-nominations.html

Sybil’s Garage will be closing to submissions for our seventh issue on April 12th.  Please make sure to send us your submissions on or before that date.

Here are the Sybil’s Garage submission stats so far: We have received 361 stories, 55 poems We have rejected 234 stories, 25 poems Average response time: 12 days for stories, 15 days for poems Please be on the lookout for a submissions closing date sometime in April.  I will make an official announcement soon.

Last night, the folks in the house wanted to watch the Oscars, but we are all in a house at the top of a small mountain, and there is no television to be found.  But there were many laptops, and broadband wireless.  So with Googled blogs and followed Twitter feeds we discovered several web streams from which to watch the Oscars.  We all huddled around the laptop on the hard floor and watched a satellite feed from England rebroadcast to net viewers by some generous person, and when that failed, …