Months ago, I met Steven Schultz at Cody's and immediately discovered a rapport with him in which I recommend books and he compliments me. Recently he visited Korea for the purpose of getting cute Korean …

Sometime today, I believe, Salon will call or email and tell me whether I have the job. I haven't felt so anticipatory in a year. My fingernails are too short to chew, and work is …

On second thought, maybe modern sci-fi already contains an abundance of the sort of thinking exemplified in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, and my friends, who read much sci-fi, will not …

Finished the Haddon book. Yep, certainly something I'll be lending to Zack, Seth, and Leonard. I watched many episodes of the PBS math variety show Square One TV and its subshow Mathnet (a Dragnet parody). …

Just started reading The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon. Excellent so far. It's a rather-hyped mystery novel whose first-person protagonist is a 15-year-old boy with Asperger's syndrome (I think). …

"I am such a problem solver." (in the tone of "My house is such a mess," or any sentence including the phrase "thunder thighs")

I'm only one or two degrees away from jwz via Joe. His LiveJournal is uniquely readable, and especially caught my eye when a documentary/rant on CSS spawned a comment with the following jollities: This is …

Macaulay's celebrated quote (and related present-day remarks): "I am quite ready to take the Oriental learning at the valuation of the Orientalists themselves. I have never found one among them who could deny that a …

I saw a guide to California independent bookstores for $1.98. Seems like quite a deal. More bargain book highlights coming, as well as reviews of Douglas Coupland's upcoming Hey Nostradamus! and Kavita Daswani's upcoming For …

Ebert says a bloggy thing in a 1998 review of a half-star flick: "The plot involves ... excuse me for a moment, while I laugh uncontrollably at having written the words 'the plot involves.' I'm …