sports, days, nights
King Kaufman, who happens to be one of my favorite sportswriters (by which I mean he annoys me less than other ones and occasionally tells me something I didn’t know), recently ruminated on his favorite Sports Days in the year….
Book Report: The Computer Connection
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Alfred Bester’s The Computer Connection evidently was nominated for a 1976 Hugo (but lost to The Forever War). It happened to be on the New Books shelf at the library in a 2004 ibooks edition, which for some reason doesn’t…
Meme, ranty, rant
Ruthling’s Rant-O-Matic is propagating a Ranty meme, and although it might well go without saying, I pass it along to my Gentle Readers, suitably modified for the outside-LJ ’sphere. Comment or email with any subject about which you would like…
85 – 13
On the whole, I think that the President of the United States should be able to choose the Cabinet he wants to govern with. Yes, the Senate should advise before it consents, but for me the bar for turfing a…
Book Report: The Well of Lost Plots
Your Humble Blogger has been enjoying Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next series, and finally read the third, The Well of Lost Plots. It’s good. For those Gentle Readers who don’t know about ’em, Thursday Next begins as a perfectly ordinary SpecOps…
George W. Bush: America’s vital interests and our deepest beliefs are now one
One of the things I find frustrating about Our Only President is how often he says things I agree with. I found it particularly frustrating in 2000, when nearly every major address was two-thirds stuff I wouldn’t mind saying myself….
Little Don Juan in a bone-white mug
It probably isn’t worth getting in to the whole story of how I came across it, but for any Gentle Reader familiar with the ballad of John Barleycorn, there is a rather entertaining ballad of Juan Coffeebean (There were three…
2004 Movie Wrap-up
Every year, along about this time, I try to note down all the previous year’s movies I’ve managed to see. Your Humble Blogger doesn’t get out very much, so it’s a small list. Some years it gets up to twelve…
Parshah B’Shalach
Parshah B’Shalach is Genesis 13:17-17:16, and is generally thought of as the Shabbat Shirah portion, the crossing of the Red Sea and the song on the other side. The parshah goes on afterwards to start the actual journey, with mannah…
Parshah Bo wrap-up
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I didn’t write a wrap-up of last week’s parshah, Bo, but it actually went very well. There were some gaps, some stretching to explain what I was asking, but the discussion was wide-ranging and fascinating. Almost everyone there said something,…