Matt Chao appears to have found the Meme to End Memes, the Twenty Questions to Perplex and Astound, the Breathtakingly Bizawah Whatsit of Stuff. Now, really, how could Your Humble Blogger Resist? 1. You are in the Witness Protection Program…
I must admit, when I heard that Jasper Fforde’s next book was going to be a re-written version of his unpublished first novel, I was not terribly excited about it. I mean, I am a bit tired of Thursday Next,…
I must admit, when I heard that Jasper Fforde’s next book was going to be a re-written version of his unpublished first novel, I was not terribly excited about it. I mean, I am a bit tired of Thursday Next,…
For reasons that will likely be clear to Gentle Readers, the following passage just leapt off the screen at Your Humble Blogger from an article otherwise of only minimal interest: “English writers for the most part try to follow Orwell’s…
Your Humble Blogger yields to no-one in my admiration for Jon Carroll (unless, of course, it is to someone who is already in the admiration-for-Jon-Carroll intersection, or approaching it, before I get there, and I can’t proceed safely until they…
Well, and time for some frivolity here in this Tohu Bohu. Your Humble Blogger noticed that the number of “artists” listed in his computerized music player topped 750 on the same week that he alphabetized the old CD collection, which…
Shall I continue? We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure…
Your Humble Blogger can’t help but notice the timing of today’s announcement. I mean, I am prepared to have coal in my Fitzmas stocking, myself, but there is a strong possibility that the White House Counsel could be very busy…
The discussion group Your Humble Blogger mentioned previously is more or less going on with the Chrestomanci books, although very quietly. Anyway, I re-read The Magicians of Caprona and Witch Week which comprise The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Volume II. Caprona…
Well, and I read The Warrior’s Apprentice again. Such fun. I did notice, this time through, that Miles is not convincingly a teenager at all. I mean, yes, there are ways that his teen-ness plays out, but for the most…