Working nights and weekends messes up my temporal orientation. Today's Friday? I guess another thing that messes up my temporal orientation is listening to political parody from six years ago.
Want a laugh? Go to any erotic story archive on the web (e.g., literotica) and check out the table of contents of slash, parodies, and/or celebrity fantasies. Some of the combinations involving Jeri Ryan (Star …
John McWhorter has mentioned in interviews and in lectures that his next book will be about some aspect of black culture in America. One time he mentioned a title -- The New Double Consciousness. Just …
I guess I should say "Oh no!"; Rob Lowe is leaving one of my favorite TV shows, The West Wing (good fan site). He plays Sam Seaborn, evidently up till March 2003. To tell the …
Tonight, at dinner with Adam, I found myself referring to "the cats I work for". I find myself reading a month or two of Jon Carroll archives every day, and I find at least a …
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Reading Arthur C. Clarke's Imperial Earth, which I like.
Yesterday, my most interesting inquiry from a bookstore customer: "Where do you keep the pseudohistory?" "Do you mean the history that you and I think is bogus, or the history that even the author knows …
The Orinda Shakespeare Festival tends to put on four plays each summer: three Shakespeare (this year, The Winter's Tale, Macbeth, and A Midsummer Night's Dream), and one other classic or related-to-the-Bard (this year, Chekhov's The …
Zack saw it too! Leonard and I saw that vehicle on Saturday as we walked on Fulton between Bancroft and Durant. He felt an affinity for it, and now I know why. I think the …
