Smith is one, of course, and Martinez is nineteen.

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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,…

Book Report: Crystal Rain

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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…

What Voters Want

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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….

Gorsh, Mickey!

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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…

Book Report: Gregor the Overlander

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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…

Warning: trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored can lead to serious stains on the footy parts.

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…

Mouse at Fifty, not at Rest

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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…