Your Humble Blogger has been slacking lately. Just slacking. No particular reason for it. I seem to have difficulty sticking to this blog business. I imagine I’ll bust through and start posting ten notes a week again sometime. Until then,…
So, what was your favorite part of Animal House? Was it the way John Belushi’s eyes bugged out when he saw the topless pillow fight in the girls’ dorm? Or the way the psychomachia couldn’t convince Larry to fuck the…
Sorry, pardon the virtual mess. Pull up a virtual pew and let’s get started. If you’ve just got here, we’re talking about Better Together, I’m in that room talking about the Introduction, and I’m over there talking about Valley Interfaith,…
Your Humble Blogger happened on Unfutz’s Electoral College Survey via Alas, a Blog and initially, it looked pretty darned cheering. After all, he shows 39 sites, of which 28 show Sen. Kerry with enough electoral votes to win, 5 show…
Well, and Your Humble Blogger has a question for … you! Does the joke line “I’m with the band” have current resonance, or is it a 70’s thing? Or is it a retro-seventies thing? I’ve heard it pop up in…
Hi, everybody, come on in. Set yourselves down. I know many Gentle Readers are still in the next room, talking about the Introduction; if you missed last week, just virtually go in there, too. Plenty of virtuality for everyone. It’s…
I’m just watching the Sesame Street All-Star Musical Special Put Down the Duckie with my Perfect Non-Reader, and other than the extraordinarily odd moments of Mr. Hudson and Rose playing with a rubber duck, the really disorienting thing was Ralph…
Oh, my. It took me a while to write this, and I could take more time and make it shorter, but it’s probably just as well to get it over and done. If you want a better and briefer look…
I can’t help it; I have to point to Geoffrey Pullam’s tale of electronic submission woes and the Cambridge University Press. In general, it’s an entertainingly written introduction to the extraordinary silliness of the way word-processing totally fails to connect…
Hi, come on in. There are plenty of virtual chairs, and even virtual floor pillows for the young and flexible. The virtual kettle is on, and we have virtual tea and virtual hot chocolate, but I’m afraid we only have…