I had a dream last night all in blank verse. Well, no, I tell a lie, the dream was prose. There was, in truth, a contest in my dream, dream-sponsored by the grocery store in town, to tell the history…
So. Over the last few months, I’ve been watching DVDs of a couple of television shows featuring the great Hugh Laurie. They are somewhat different. The first is an American drama/soap opera in which Mr. Laurie plays a brilliant and…
Song of Songs, Chapter Four, verse twelve: A garden inclosed [is] my sister, [my] spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. This is continuing from the last bit, where the Guy is talking about his Sweetie. In the last…
Not really blogging yet, but I can’t resist the story about theHonorable Keith Ellison not only making a (private) affirmation of his oath of office on a Quran, but on Thomas Jefferson’s Quran. Registered users can read the Washington Post…
I’m not altogether sure why my totals for 2006 were so different from 2005 and 2004. In 2004, I read 119 books; in 2005, I read 118; in 2006, I read 99. Eliminating books I had read before, I read…
The last book that Your Humble Blogger completed in 2006 was Charlotte’s Web, which we have been reading aloud in stages to our Perfect Non-Reader. She liked it a lot, except for the part where Charlotte died. Because she’s a…
One of the last books I read in 2006 was Califia’s Daughters, which I had read two years ago or so, and more or less liked, although I had noticed that the pacing was seriously off. The first hundred and…
Well, and Your Humble Blogger has returned, as promised. Since my last post, I have eaten chicken, pork, ham, shrimp, goose, venison, lamb, goat and some unidentifiable form of fish. Also some sausages that by rights ought to have been…
So, there’s an end-of-year lj sort of meme that takes the first sentence (usually) from each month of the year. Doing so for this Tohu Bohu yields As often happens when I am in the library listlessly looking for something…
From someone named Tania on a Making Light open thread: Sword swallowing and its side effects, from the British Medical Journal, 23 December 2006 (BMJ 2006;333:1285-1287): Results: … Major complications are more likely when the swallower is distracted or swallows…