Yesterday Xy’s school informed her that she would be attending a workshop today, rather than teaching, so she had to stay late making plans for…
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Yesterday Xy’s school informed her that she would be attending a workshop today, rather than teaching, so she had to stay late making plans for…
So the daycare calls me at 10:15 this morning to let me know the girl somehow bumped her nose on a shelf, pretty hard. Even…
I was putting up posters last week for the Beyond Jena forum. I thought to myself, “New Orleans East always gets left out of the…
I was recently castigated for not posting enough cute baby pictures here. Hopefully that will assuage my critics for the time being. The girl’s just…
We are gearing up for the Beyond Jena forum on Saturday. We’ll be closing registration soon, but there is still a little room left, so…
Thanks to my friend Jason Neville for bringing this choice piece of research to my attention: “We put rats in relatively large areas with objects…
I was tagged with one of those viral memes that I recall were ricocheting around the blogosphere a few years back. But this one happened…
A new restaurant has opened on Bienville at N. Rendon, just a couple blocks from our house. Of course Xy and I went to check…
You make eleven months today. I just made 42 years myself. Such a difference. Every month is a milestone for you, but I can’t even…
It’s stunning for me to realize: Today is a great day in American history. I can recall plenty of dark days. September 11th and Hurricane…
Every year I see further evidence that Dr. King’s legacy is not being honored so much as perverted. I got this spam e-mail last week…
I don’t like to make a big deal out of my birthday. I kind of agree with the brilliant Patton Oswalt, that you really only…
It’s my birthday today. So, a quick quiz. What do I have in common with the Superbowl, the Krewe of Endymion, Fairport Convention and electronic…
I’m feeling better, though by no means 100%, and I’m back at work today. Ironically, as I’ve gotten over my cold, the weather here’s colder…
Perhaps I spoke too quickly yesterday. This is feeling like regular full-blown cold. I stayed home again today, but I think I am over the…
My sore throat of a couple days developed into something that seemed more like a cold last night, so today I am staying home, resting,…
Rather than express my obligatory outrage over Bush’s remarks yesterday on Hurricane Katrina, I’ll simply link to Darwin Bond Graham’s rather excellent rebuttal.
Once again, these are not reviews, just some scattered reading notes. Title: 334 Author: Thomas M. Disch Published: 1974 Like Nova, this is a good…
Somehow last week got away from me, and I failed to record some happenings here. For example, on Thursday morning the car refused to start…