Book Report: Cyrano de Bergerac
I think it will not come as a surprise to Gentle Readers that Cyrano de Bergerac is one of my favorite plays. There’s a role for Your Humble Blogger. Well, I can dream. During a recent scramble for Something to…
A sad, sad, story
From minyan, who I don’t know, but found through a particle on the Making Light sidebar: Our story begins with (insert appropriate pronoun later): Yakety Yak (The Coasters) living in: Church of Women (XTC) who spends time: Everybody’s Crying Mercy…
Specter-Levin
Your Humble Blogger hasn’t ranted about the abominable detention bill, because—hey, any Gentle Readers not already outraged? Anybody feel they need to know more? Any of you think that there was a real compromise and that Senators McCain and Warner…
Book Report: All-of-a-Kind Family
One of the things about living in a town with a rather concentrated Jewish population is that I can buy taiglach at the local market on the day of Erev Rosh Hashanah. True, buying taiglach was an error—Your Humble Blogger…
Book Report: The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip
It’s not that I didn’t enjoy The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip. I did. It was perfectly good. In places, it was absolutely knock-your-socks-off good. I just didn’t think the ending was knock-your-socks-off good, and ultimately I finished the book…
Book Report: The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Another bit of re-reading done over the summer was the not-quite-complete Sherlock Holmes canon. In bits and pieces, I read all the short stories and two of the novels, as well as part of The Hound of the Baskervilles. I…
Book Report: The Forever War
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Your Humble Blogger had been vaguely wanting to reread The Forever War for a while, despite not having particularly liked it on first reading. Certain aspects of it niggled at me, and after ten years (or twenty-five, as I can’t…
Ooop, sorry
Your Humble Blogger has been thinking, lately, about apologies. Not only are we into the Days of Awe, during which time we tend to run around like rabbits, apologizing to everybody we meet and also streetlights and newspaper boxes, but…
A New Year, just in time
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Your Humble Blogger has been running around, doing this and that, purchasing honey cake and challah and taiglach (rather than baking, which would have been even more time-consuming and laborious and less yummy), and giving people rides various places, and…
It Ain’t News
Your Humble Blogger is, as you well know, Gentle Readers all, a bit of a political junkie. I am fascinated by campaigns. I adore political rhetoric, and I find the manner in which a candidate chooses his message and its…