What with the babysitting situation, and the financial situation, and the laziness situation, Your Humble Blogger hardly ever actually goes out to see plays. I love seeing plays, and if I were to somehow become insanely wealthy, I would spend…
Your Humble Blogger is tempted to just use this note to talk about how nice it is that Tor finally—finally—has a decent website, so I can link directly to their books. Thank you, Tor! No more mockery from me! In…
Your Humble Blogger had really enjoyed Magic or Madness, and the library had the second book in the trilogy, so I picked it up and read it. It’s generally a mistake for me to read a second book soon after…
Speaking (weren’t we?) about using the specific strength of the internet to deal with climate change, Your Humble Blogger happened to be listening to Science Friday this week and heard about the National Phenology Network, through which any of y’all…
OK, so I’m sure y’all know that John Edwards got a couple of expensive haircut housecalls. I’m wondering if something like the following would work for him, given as part of a stump speech at a rally with supporters, with…
I first read The Dreyfus Affair: A Love Story back in 1993 when it came out in paperback. I saw a copy signed by Peter Lefcourt and thought it looked interesting enough to pick up. And I enjoyed it and…
Your Humble Blogger assumed that the giant hiphop squirrel rapping about wand’ring lonely as a cloud would have made the rounds sufficiently that any Gentle Reader would have already seen it twice, but it seems not. So, courtesy of the…
Well, and Your Humble Blogger has gotten nicely behind in Book Reports again. Which is fine. But it happens that I’ve read some good books lately. There’s an odd thing about the internet, particularly when an old college buddy (and…
As Your Humble Blogger settles in to West Hartford with the intention of (gasp) staying, local politics looks more interesting. Our state is discussing gay marriage, and I happen to live in the next district over from the only…
I hate to even talk about the Virginia Tech murders. So I won’t, in any detail. But it occurred to me that the surprising thing is that this sort of event doesn’t happen more often. We know that there are…