Me: "What are your thoughts on gay marriage?" Ray Bradbury: "Love is Love." From the Sam Weller.

Sam Weller. Ray Bradbury. Come home.

We do not know the Sam Weller. But we know he loved Ray Bradbury. Which means we love him. It also means we love the Bradbury remembrance he published in the HuffPost this week. Most beautious that.

"And then there is the basement. The famed basement office of Ray Douglas Bradbury. The fluorescent lights that hang from the joists will never buzz again. Not over him, at least, perched over his hulking metal office desk, as he loved to do, stout fingers gliding over the keys of his IBM selectric typewriter.

The basement filing cabinets, stuffed with unpublished tales and fragments of story starts waiting to be finished will now, likely, go to a cold repository for study and academic rumination. All the toys and the books and the old pulp magazines have lost the man who collected them all with love and fervor over a lifetime of excitement. This basement, this repository of a man's childlike wonder, will never see the man ever again. 

And it is as if the very house itself, on a moonlit California summer night, says, hushed, "Come Home. Come Home."

Dang. R.I.P. Ray Bradbury.

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." Ray Bradbury (1920-2012)

Happy Birthday.

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." Ray Bradbury

A terribly inappropriate, yet still loving homage to the awesomeness of Ray Bradbury first viewed at the always cutting-edge Baby Got Books.

Something wicked this way comes. Well, not wicked, but there is the Repetition Patterns and a virtual book tour and even the Elizabeth Crane. Nice.

Yes, sorry, nothing truly wicked, nor anything involving Ray Bradbury or Jason Robards for that matter, though they are so welcome to join us. No, what we're talking about is the upcoming Repetition Patterns virtual book tour - This Book Tour Will Change Your Life, where over the last two weeks of February we will be on the road, the internet road, thank you very much Al Gore, and visiting a variety of blogs and electronic literary outposts to hype, dissect, deify and love all that is Repetition Patterns. We will certainly let you know more as we know more ourselves, but we are happy to report that among the bloggers we know we will be visiting are none other than the Pete Lit, Orange Alert, So the Devil and a Circus Walk into a Bar, Bigmouth Indeed Strikes Again, the j.a. tyler, and yes, yes, long-time This Blog Will Change Your Life muse Elizabeth Crane as well. Nice, right? Way, and much, much, appreciated.