As Gentle Readers may have sensed, Your Humble Blogger is not paying quite as close attention to matters national and international as I might were I not packing up house. I haven’t much to say about Our Only President’s choice…
Ah, sweet broadband. Well, back before I left the old barn for the new barn, I raided my erstwhile-to-be library’s excellent comics shelf and picked up The Vampire Brat, by Batton Lash of Exhibit A Press. This is one of…
Your Humble Blogger had forgotten how short James and the Giant Peach is. That’s not bad, actually; I prefer a skimpy book to a padded one. Other things I had forgotten about James include the Cloud Men (who take up…
I hope y’all are having fun in my absence, Gentle Readers. I’m still on the road, and will be on the road until (if all goes well) the 21st. Until then, smoke ’em if you got ’em. Thank you,-Vardibidian….
As Your Humble Blogger has a moment, but not much more: Arnold Zwicky at Language Log notes today’s annoying bureaucratic noun-noun compound: Newsrack Ordinance Compliance Violation Warning and Impoundment Notice: Corrective Action Required. This is pretty impressive. Although really there…
As Your Humble Blogger has mentioned before, one of the unfortunate things about blogging is the urge to blog about any important event as soon as it occurs. I managed to avoid the temptation to slip in a quick note…
Your Humble Blogger notes that production was down a trifle in June, with 32 notes (including 9 book notes). On the other hand, the production of Gentle Readers was up, with 119 comments (including a few spam, but not so…
As YHB mentioned Ethan of Athos on a comment thread over at Jed’s Lorem Ipsum, and then my Best Reader pulled it off the shelf and gave it a read, it was, perhaps inevitable that YHB would reread it with…
Your Humble Blogger somehow managed to neither become a Big Fan of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld stuff, not become a hater. They are sort of like off-brand potato chips; I tend to consume them absent-mindedly, without much actual enjoyment, but without,…
Looking at the archives, it appears that Your Humble Blogger has never written at length about The Declaration of Independence. I’m surprised, actually; it’s a remarkable and frustrating piece of propaganda, and I’ve spent hours and hours thinking about it….