Kingdom of Vegetarians

Saturday, December 10th, 6:30pm

KoV is a kosher, vegan Chinese restaurant in Philadelphia's Chinatown, about 2.5 blocks from the Center City Marriott and Philcon. On account of a large number of people whom I would like to see while I am in Philly, many of whom are vegetarian or keep kosher, I propose meeting at KoV for dinner on Saturday, around 6:30.

You don't have to RSVP, because I will not attempt to organize — I'm helping to run the convention, that's quite enough organizing, thank you. We will just show up at the restaurant, wait a reasonable amount of time for stragglers, and then get table(s) for however many of us there happen to be.

See you at Philcon!

Three Theological Musings

In no particular order:

( It is written in the Talmud that... )

( Laplace's God says... )

( Finally, consider this familiar subset of the complex plane... )

"Born at the Right Time"

Finally!

Did you ever try to learn a simple-seeming, folksy song, only to realize that the harmonic and rhythmic structure that you love about it is your impression of layers of subtle lead-guitar riffs, and not strumming chords at all? Sometimes there's a way to reproduce that texture with chords anyway.

At long last, I have successfully added Paul Simon's "Born at the Right Time" (from Rhythm of the Saints) to my repertoire. Next time you're around me and a guitar, I'd love to play it for you.