Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage
I just picked up the printed book of The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, and so far it's regularly...
Archive for Humor
Radio/audio drama at half price!
Short version: All CDs of ZBS audio productions are now available at half price! If you like Welcome to Night...
The Lonely Goatherd and the Bechdel test
I wrote this the other day for a discussion of (among other things) works that do and don't pass the...
Fathers and stories: “Emerson’s Chevrolet”
I've written before about marvelous storyteller Willy Claflin. Today in the car his story “Emerson's Chevrolet” came up in my...
Occam’s Razor revisited
Last night I was pretty upset because the radio in the room I was renting wouldn't turn off. My friends...
Optimistic pessimist haiku
A couple months ago, I was riding my bike home from work and I made some kind of minor interacting-with-other-people-in-traffic...
Harold and Maude
(I wrote this entry in July, but was reluctant to post it at the time. Now that I'm ready to...
The octopus and its friend
Kam and I visited the Monterey Bay Aquarium's new Tentacles exhibit over the weekend. I was telling Arthur about it,...
Books vs pajamas
Pat (Spencer Tracy) and Jamie (Katharine Hepburn) are on a sleeper train, and the following dialogue ensues: Jamie: Would you...
The Dead Phone: A comic monologue in one brief act
Me: Oh, no! My phone has run out of battery! Me: Alas! I cannot read while I walk, as I...
Chatroulette Guy does Miley Cyrus and Mariah Carey
First there was Call Me Maybe (3-min video). This guy Stephen Kardynal went on Chatroulette (the site where you can...
More from _Happy All the Time_
Still enjoying Laurie Colwin's 1978 novel Happy All the Time. Here are a couple more bits worth snipping for my...