Something has come up which is going to require another day or so to handle before I post about which way this project’s going to go. It’s not a bad…
Dear, dear. The fear of the spread of bird flu has resulted in French rugby fans being urged not to perform one of their most famous traditions when they arrive…
Writing
By the way, for those who were asking: a printed version of "A Wind from the South" is in preparation
One theme I’ve been hearing lately in emails about the book (which have been in just about every other way complimentary) is, “I hate e-books. Please do a dead-tree version!”…
Just so that people know: I’m aware that this is the Presidents’ Day “long weekend” in the US. So I won’t be posting about the final result of my deliberations…
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…
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…
(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…
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…
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…