"with lilies boast"

Welcome to the world today, Ethan Marshall Curry, our new little nephew.


Quick notes:
A new community for news and updates, in the spirit of middleearthnews for Tolkien fandom and daily_snitch for Harry Potter fandom, now exists for Star Wars fandom: jedi_news.

Also, the "Talk of the Nation" program on which I appeared (re: science fiction fandom) has been blogged (with great humor) at The Great Curve.


And now, in honor of hours-old Ethan:

"But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy,
Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great:
Of Nature's gifts thou mayst with lilies boast,
And with the half-blown rose."

from "The Life and Death of King John," William Shakespeare