YHB’s Gracious Host links to The Sweetest Sound: Popularity Index. This is a widget for finding out how common a particular surname is. YHB’s surname, for instance, is around the 1,500th most frequently occurring in the US. My Best Reader,…
So. Your Humble Blogger happened to be listening to NPR this afternoon and heard a sound clip of Our Only President: I have returned to make it clear to people that I understand we’re marking the first anniversary of the…
It’s a good thing that Tobias Bucknell has a good site up for Crystal Rain, because Tor’s website is still crappy beyond belief, and YHB had entirely forgotten which book this was. The title was providing me with no clue…
In Which Your Humble Blogger responds to something Ann Coulter said, believe it or not.
Gentle Readers outside Connecticut may not have seen Senator Lieberman’s essay in this Sunday’s Hartford Courant. Fortunately, somebody left a copy of the Courant outside my new residence, so I was able to smear the essay all over my fingers….
Humph. Just when I was getting back into the swing of this blogging thing, I have to go away for a couple of days. I’ll just mention two things: First, thank all you Gentle Readers for your comments, which have…
By latest count, Your Humble Blogger is sixteen books behind in this Book Report business. Some of them were pretty good, too. Others, not so much. Gregor the Overlander was a fairly good one. It had one of my least…
Lately I’ve seen a couple of mocking links to the Armor of Gd pajamas. Teresa Nielsen Hayden calls them daft, and it was the Cruel Site of the Day. And, yes, the site itself is poorly designed, and the pajamas…
Your Humble Blogger has more or less completed the latest change of domicile, and the band is broad once more. Whether this leads me to start blogging again with any frequency … well, we shall see. At any rate, catching…
I read in the New York Times Arts, Briefly that Armistead Maupin’s next book, Michael Tolliver Lives, will be out next year. I thought I’d pass that along for those who want to know. Your Humble Blogger is ambivalent (there’s…