So, as you are aware, Gentle Reader, Your Humble Blogger is attempting to blog every single book read. This is, on occasion, disconcerting, when I discover that I haven’t blogged a book that I know I’ve read. As for instance,…
Well, and Your Humble Blogger will be playing the Vicomte de Valmont in a production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses put on my the local Community Theater here in Western Connecticut. It should be a lot of fun, and a lot…
Every now and then, the fact that people are different, one to another, and perceive different universes, still manages to surprise Your Humble Blogger. Manohla Dargis, in a New York Times review of Firewall called An Aging Action Hero With…
Things Your Humble Blogger thinks are being missed about this whole cartoon inspired violence business. Well, not missed, as I’m sure there are people making these points, but shall I say insufficiently emphasized. I do not get to decide what…
[Your Humble Blogger has been itching to write something about this hoo-hah surrounding the Mohammed caricatures and riots and all. As with all questions, the correct answer is it’s more complicated than that, and as with all questions, that answer…
So. Juice half-a-dozen lemons. Take the rinds of two of them, chop ’em into strips, and throw the strips along with two cups of sugar into a cup of water and boil it for five minutes, making a syrup (or…
Your Humble Blogger had passed the two hundredth page of Lost Stories, the newish collection of, um, “21 long-lost stories from the bestselling creator of Sam Spade, The Maltese Falcon, and The Thin Man, and was preparing to write the…
A recent article in the New York Times (When All the ‘Greatest Hits’ Are Too Many to Download, by Jeff Leeds) brought to mind the whole music business mess. It seems that, in an utterly unprecedented way, people are now…
Boy, do I like Cordelia’s Honor. But you knew that. chazak, chazak, v’nitchazek,-Vardibidian….
I know, Your Humble Blogger hardly ever does this, but what the hell. Metasilk made a pretty out of movie posters (well, and DVD boxes), so here’s mine. Note that I am not defending these as the Bestest Dozen Ever,…