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.
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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…
I’m on strike today against violence in all its forms.
And so the season of madness begins again. Allow me to update a little essay I wrote a few years back: Tonight is Twelfth Night,…
Plenty of people are getting back to work and asking each other, “So how was your break?” One of Xy’s fellow teachers answered thusly: He…
I’m back at work today after a good twelve day break. It was nice being home and spending more time with the girl, who is…
It was two years ago today that Helen‘s life came to an end, in circumstances too terrible to contemplate calmly. So we are spending a…
Xy’s 40th birthday present finally arrived.
Herb and Jenny are spending the night, along with their kids Marlon and Leroy, as they pass through New Orleans. We walked up to Venezia…
Our year ended much as it began — yet also so differently. It began at the bonfire on Orleans Avenue. I had shaved off half…
OK, so here’s a mix of my favorite music that came out in 2008. Seventeen tracks — an hour’s worth of audio for your listening…
Forty tracks to rock her fortieth birthday (which is today): (Starts off mellow and ramps up. Contains plenty of my favorite songs by Xy’s favorite…
We went to the Celebration in the Oaks last night, the three of us as a family unit. There’s something about lights in the darkness…
Playing the hand that was dealt me.
My co-worker Jim has said there’s been many a warm Xmas Day in New Orleans throughout his life, Xmases where he finds he’s quite comfortable…
Good Yule y’all! …from Persephone, Sebastian and Santa. And from Xy and me as well.
One of the key tensions in my relationship with Xy has to do with television. To put it bluntly, she’s for it and I’m against…
You started crawling in earnest right after you made nine months. Now it’s hard to remember when you weren’t mobile. Of course you’ve been getting…
Nightcap number three.