The Vesuvius Club: A Bit of Fluff is just that. It isn’t a surprise to discover that the author, Mark Gatiss, is a Doctor Who fiend. It has that sort of manic craziness, particularly in a scene when the bad…
Your Humble Blogger hasn’t read the State of the Union address yet, and perhaps I will and perhaps I won’t, but I’ve been meaning to mention something about Health Savings Accounts, which I understand Our Only President continues to push,…
Well, and the Oscar noms are out, and Your Humble Blogger has seen six—six!—of the nominated films. Oh, none of the ones nominated for Best Picture, and none of the nominated acting performances, or directing, or writing, but then who…
My inclination, in writing about Inkspell is to start with SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS and then to SPOIL the damned ending, only there isn’t any ending to spoil, damnit. Not only does it leave off with a here’s the beginning of…
A few random things: Your Humble Blogger has a stage sword of substantial sentimental value that has gotten rusty. I know, and I feel really bad about it, but can anybody help? What products are there for this sort of…
… grumble, grumble, stupid Senator, stupid voice mail system, stupid full mailbox, stupid web forms, stupid gang of stupid fourteen. If these stupid voters had just elected the Jew Motherfucker a few years earlier, this never would have happened. Well,…
This is the third book that HarperCollins has sent me free to review for them. It’s the first novel, and it wasn’t bad. Here’s the review I’m sending them: I love historical novels, and I’m afraid I’ve learned much of…
Sometimes the writing in the New York Times Arts section just gets right up Your Humble Blogger’s nose. From Chimney Sweep’s World, With No Mary Poppins, an article by Ben Sisario on Colin Meloy: “His lyrics giddily engage a Scrabble…
A couple of recent January arguments about which is the Bestest Baseball Team Ever Ever Ever brought the usual sort of musing about what best can mean in that context, when it occurred to me to pose myself a question…
For the casual reader of Left Blogovia (or, indeed, the causal one, I suppose), it’s become easy to now perceive the scandal about Jack Abramoff, bribery, embezzlement, murder, organized crime, casinos and the Legislature as being, ultimately, not about what…