Overheard at work
Co-worker 1: I watched [the movie] Airplane last night. Co-worker 2: Yeah, I saw you bought it. Now you can...
Groggy to bed and groggy to rise
I've been groggy all day. Woke up groggy and too early; half-dozed for an hour or so; got up and...
Smog
Yesterday afternoon I took a little time out to run some errands. Missed a meeting at work as a result,...
Hackers help find missing database password
I tend to figure that there must be people other than me who don't read Slashdot regularly but still find...
Used books, big business
I heard about the fuss that the Authors Guild is kicking up about used book sales, but the little that...
TV
Tonight at Ethan's regular TV night, we saw the worst episode yet of Jeremiah, titled "Ring of Fire" or something...
Followup re “people of color”
I asked the other day about the phrase "people of color"; Nick M. (by whose journal I see that the...
Hermetic Newton
Aegypt continues to resonate, months after I read it, with various new things I encounter. Looking for info on Newton,...
Clarion starting
Clarion (East) 2002 starts tomorrow. How exciting! Clarion West 2002 doesn't start for a couple more weeks, though....
Phrase dating and the New Wave
I just came across a copy of George Alec Effinger's (R.I.P.) story "All the Last Wars at Once," published in...
Boys. Booze. Bathrooms.
My high-school (and college) friend Jed Bell and his partner Wickie Stamps have made a short (15-minute) film called Foucault...
Saint Bosco
A modern Italian priest, Don Silvio Mantelli, has asked the Pope to name a 19th-century Italian priest, Saint Giovanni Bosco,...