Cirque Eloize in SF through this week
Beth tells me that she just saw Cirque Éloize's "Rain" at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco. She loved it;...
Review: It Should Happen to You
I've been hearing for years about It Should Happen to You: directed by George (My Fair Lady, Philadelphia Story) Cukor,...
Proposition 73
I'm mostly trying to avoid posting about contentious political issues here at the moment, because I'm being even more conflict-averse...
Smart quotes!
Vardibidian asked if there was a Movable Type plugin that would change curved quotation marks and apostrophes into the appropriate...
Birthdays
Happy birthdays this week to Gandhi, Melissa S, Jim M, Damon Runyon, David M, Arthur H, and Sigourney Weaver. Happy...
Kepler’s saved!
Kepler's Books will be reopening this weekend! They renegotiated the lease. The new business plan (according to the Palo Alto...
Missing words
Here's something I've been seeing a lot in submissions lately: sentences in which words or phrases or sometimes entire clauses...
Posting comments
Several people have mentioned that they've received errors when posting comments, and some people have re-posted the comment later. I'm...
Article about sentencing
Jay has posted about the sentencing hearing. He also linked to a Tacoma News Tribune article about the hearing; nothing...
Another death
Tonight's email brought news that my former co-worker Patrice O'Neill died of cancer on Saturday. Patrice was great. I was...
Sentencing hearing
It feels weird and awkward to juxtapose tonight's three entries, on unrelated but important subjects. I'm sorry about that. But...
Wedding
Tim and Heather had a lovely wedding on Saturday. (You can also read other people's accounts: Tim's, including his vows;...