I think the thing to do is to sock my Gentle Readers with a flurry of short pieces, because I haven’t the sustained time to write long ones. I could, as is my usual wont, gather the short pieces together,…
Heigh-ho, Gentle Readers, Your Humble Blogger is back again, all connected and whatnot. Love that phone company. I know, I know, Gentle Readers, you were left without YHB’s deep-but-broad analysis of the Big News of the Day, and all. I…
Your Humble Blogger is once again on the verge of changing residences. Not moving far, this time. Just a few blocks. Still, it’s a lot of work. And there’s the Youngest Member to be dandled. As a result, blogging will…
Sadly, Lady Friday had all the flaws of Sir Thursday, but magnified because Your Humble Blogger just read Thursday a month ago. Again, there were good bits—I particularly liked the portrayal of Friday herself as an addict, terrifying and pathetic,…
Back when I read Babe: The Gallant Pig, I reported mostly on the adaptation for the excellent movie, but I didn’t make it clear that I quite liked the book as well. Which I did. Now, I happened to come…
OK, the thing that makes this meme interesting to me is that I am Not a Writer. (from Gentle Reader Matt H. at xenolith): Take someone else’s list of Ten Things I Don’t Know About Writing, comment on it, and…
As I was rereading In the Frame (the painter one—no, not the Scotland painter one, the Australia painter one) this time, it occurred to me that it would make quite a good movie. Oh, you’d have to change a lot…
From this morning’s Hartford Courant: Now, that’s harsh. Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus,-Vardibidian….
Els Kushner over at Book, Book, Book, in reference to Father’s Day and children’s books, asks Where are the dads? She gives some of her favorite fathers of fiction, and I commented with a handful of my own (The Borrowers,…
Your Humble Blogger finally got around to seeing Stage Beauty, the film of Jeffrey Hatcher’s play Compleat Female Stage Beauty. I enjoyed it a lot, much more than I had anticipated. There was a bit of annoying Acting! but not…