The Boston Phoenix leads me to Support Our Ribbons, which not only is a terrific way to support our beleaguered magnetic-ribbon industry, but allows Your Humble Blogger to design his own ribbon. So many choices. My first inclination would be…
In a desperate attempt to refrain from making the obvious post about Snapple’s little popsicle problem, Your Humble Blogger presents this partial lyric from the Boomtown Rats: Snap me in your breach, I want to be your bullet I want…
Your Humble Blogger was listening to a portion of the local NPR call-in show yesterday afternoon, on which they were talking about the controversial subject of women in combat situations in the military. You know, like that. And one of…
Your Humble Blogger is not so much enamored of the new superblog Talking Points Café, but that’s where Matt Yglesias has taken his blog, so now and then I go over and read. Recently, he pointed me to a piece…
Happy Juneteenth, Gentle Readers all. A hundred and forty years ago yesterday, a man could assault, torture and even kill another man with impunity, as long as the fellow he killed was sufficiently dark-skinned, and as long as the light-skinned…
Your Humble Blogger has been laying off the outrage, of late, in favor of common or garden crankiness, but I now I really must protest. And, in my own imitable style, I must protest at great length, starting with way…
You know those little things that stick in your mind that totally destroy stories? Like how the hell anybody knows what Charles Foster Kane’s last word was anyway, what with him dying, you know, alone? Well, it was just pointed…
Gentle Reader, I am aware you may well be thinking Doesn’t he like anything? When did V. lose his sense of humor? Well, and I have been cranky lately, but I am still capable of laughing, on occasion. For instance,…
One of the reasons I’m blogging so slowly lately is that the really complicated stuff I have found interesting over the last few days remains in a muddle, and I have little idea how to write about it at all,…
Your Humble Blogger has read and enjoyed some of Will Eisner’s stuff, but this was the first time I read his most famous (I think) work, A Contract with God and other tenement stories. I was disappointed. Not with the…