Josh Brockman introduced me to Ben Folds Five by telling me that he was sad that the group had broken up, and I have enjoyed their music for something like a year. This morning I …
Back in Berkeley. FOR NOW. My mother has blown up at me and she's simmering with anger and I don't know what to do about it. Frustrating and saddening. On the up side, I'm back …
How did an Aaron Spelling television drama concentrating on the family of a Christian minister get so good? Oh, Seventh Heaven, the show that actually does didacticism relatively well, and one of my mass-media vices. …
Yesterday I went to a store (The Dollar Tree) to try to buy blank videocassettes, and what happened? Nothing. Not even ice cream. Or, rather, I couldn't find any. (Have I complained here before about …
Steve's Adventures at Strada: ...she didn't have a feel for what radiation is. That one sort of floored me, because radiation is one of my "basis concepts" that I use to explain other things. (Yes, …
Yee-ha! Jon Carroll uses "Google" as a verb! I very well may get out the barn.
Mike Popovic's daughter, Zoe, responds to "let's roll!" Lacking directional control, she attempts to compensate with distance - like some sort of brightly-colored tumbleweed, she stops only when she meets an immoveable object.
I know a fella who learned Spanish by reading Neruda in the original, speaking of Pablo. In fact, that fella is John Morearty, of whom I will speak much more in the next few hours.
Waah! I failed the driver's test again. This time I had a rather nice male examiner and seemed to be doing okay all the way till the end. I pulled into the DMV driveway and …
Today I try once more to get that fine card, that signifier of responsibility and adulthood, that ticket into the polluting class, the driver's license. The test takes place around 11:15, in a few scant …
