And now, for something completely different...

On a lovely (if uncharacteristically cool) weekend a ways back, I borrowed G's Jeep and headed down to spend a bit of time with P at his...

I started reading Winter's Tale almost two years ago ! Remember way back when E was working in NYC and I went to stay with her?  (In ca...

"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster.  And when you gaze long into the abyss the ab...

Goal #30: drink tea. A couple months back, I had food poisoning.  Boy, was that unfortunate.  As an unintended consequence of that (becaus...

This one is for Dad: "All I wanted to do was get back to Africa.  We had not left it, yet, but when I would wake in the night I would...

One day a while back, T and I were each trying to get some paperwork done, and decided we might be more productive if we had a movie on.  Th...

I was over at C's house for the party I mentioned a while back , perusing his bookshelves.  He was appalled that I had not read Franny a...

The more I read graphic novels, the more I like them.  They aren't greater or lesser than prose works, they're just different.  Coul...

It's been a while since I finished listening to Tabloid City .  It's style and tone reminded me a lot of Lush Life , which I read so...

Goal #29: 6:30 closing time. I have been working a lot of hours lately.  It's exhausting.  Though I have only limited control over my ...