It’s been two months since I broached this subject. Now it’s time to make a choice. I’ll be evaluating my options over the weekend. If you have an opinion and…
I’ll be e-mailing everybody about this over the course of the day, but I just wanted to put a note here, since a lot of people seem to read the…
So I’m minding my own business Thursday morning when the phone rings. On the other end is a nice lady from a production company connected with RTÉ, the Irish national…
The wedding party lines up after the dust has settled at Boskone 1987. Left to right: groomsmen Kurt Siegel and George (“Dupa T. Parrot”) Brickner, maid of honour Ramona Sepulveda,…
As of today, it’s been nineteen years since I married this man…only partly realizing the incredible deal I was getting: life-partnership with a talented and twisty-brained writer, a careful and…
I had a query about the subject late last night, so I thought I’d cross-blog the response here. (…”Cross-blog”. Is that a word? Well, it is now.) As regards The…
News bulletin: It's against the law for a Vice President to shoot a lawyer
Without the right license. (snicker) I do, however, feel sorry for the poor victim, who’s probably still having shot tweezered out of him. (In the background, Peter mutters: “They’re making…
There’s been significant improvement since that last post. Goodman, for his part, is almost completely recovered from his enteritis, and is wandering around the house shouting for food in the…
Well, Goodman is better. But now Squeaky really does have to go to the vet tomorrow…because the abscess definitely isn’t his only problem: the limp continues. (sigh) After a long…
Squeaky has thoughtfully pulled the fur off the hurt spot. There is an abscess there from something’s bite — cat? rat? Probably not bat — which is now draining. Relief…
Sick cat week
(sigh) The graphic above (which occurred to me very early this morning) is the only worthwhile thing I’ve gotten done today. (If you like it you can get one here:…
Somebody call Treebeard, because some people need their heads banged together. A property-line dispute between a builder and a lifelong Bronx resident is in an architectural stalemate – with a…
The best disclaimer I've seen in a while
This point may take a little time to get to, so bear with me. Peter and I are getting ready to do an afternoon cooking demonstration at the local hardware…
Re the Rolling Stones’ halftime performance: About 2,000 volunteers surrounded the stage to give the performance the feel of a “real” concert, even thought it was largely designed for television…
Just what you needed: a Personal Disorganizer. Tags: Filofax, organizer, personal organizer, alcohol
FourDocs is where you can upload four minute docs about your world. Don’t worry if you’ve never done any filmmaking before — there’s expert help for you in the user-friendly…
Heh. “The files will be sort of deleted. Continue?” Tags: fuzzy logic, Windows, error message
You won’t be finding this one on eBay any time soon. Secretly stored in a loft in England since WWI, this 1917 Sopwith Camel #B6291 was discovered by a former…
Used to be that, every now and then, when I’d see a name in the Blogger referral logs for a blog that I didn’t recognize, I’d click on the link…
Looking for help with that pesky quest? A wizard of Bath discovers the realities…
Hilarious. …I did learn a few useful things… Older people are much less likely to see the funny side of something, even when the safety of the universe is in…
And not a moment too soon, if you ask me. This convenience comes to us courtesy of the Overseas Vote Foundation, a nonprofit / nonpartisan group devoted to cutting through…
I see the Young Wizards books turning up on a lot of “If You Like Harry Potter…” lists these days — hundreds of them, scattered all over the US and…
But in the nicest kind of way: Tales of the Plush Cthulhu Yes, Plush Cthulhu! The stars were right again and a band of innocent stuffed animals had released Him…
I see that I’m a trifle late in finding out about this — dewline put me onto it (hey, thanks!!) — and after a little Googling I see that Chris…
