Your Humble Blogger spent much of yesterday at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Actually, Your Humble Blogger spent much of yesterday mocking the MFA,B, which richly deserves it, what with their pitiful collection of contemporary art, their baffling insistence…
I am sorry to report that when Punxsutawney Phil crept out of his burrow, he tripped an IED wire, and got blowed the fuck up. Six more years of war. Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus,-Vardibidian….
Song of Songs, Chapter Five, verse eight: I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I [am] sick of love. If you remember, Gentle Reader, we left our Babe wandering the…
So. Yesterday I was listening to NPR, as happens, when I heard a piece they are calling Iran’s Pollution Worries Come by Air and Water about the contamination in the Caspian Sea. So, they start with the sound of dredging…
So. This could get ugly. There has been a bit of a hoo-hah recently around Left Blogovia about anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism, with a couple of prominent Jewish bloggers (Matt Yglesias and Ezra Klein, to be specific, and why not, specificity…
Frank Portman may not be known to Gentle Readers as Dr. Frank of The Mr. T Experience. I don’t think I would have recognized his name myself. My own collection of early nineties pop-punk is pretty limited. Mostly because I…
Feed started off really well. “We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck.” In fact, the whole first section, maybe forty pages, where they were on the moon was pretty good. Our…
See, here’s the thing. I’m one of them crazy technogreens who thinks that we will somehow manage to survive this whole global warming business—that it won’t be substantially worse than, let’s say, the Little Ice Age, the ensuing famine and…
Well, and Your Humble Blogger should have something to say about his third time through Cordelia’s Honor in three years. I really should. Um … ok, here’s the question: how come there aren’t more people with the same first names,…
Yes, having read through I, Claudius, and having a copy of the sequel to hand, Your Humble Blogger was unable to help himself. This despite knowing that the book isn’t very good, that I hadn’t enjoyed it the last time,…