Today, Sydney Omarr says of Martha Stewart that she's "a remarkable Leo; she has implanted the following thought in many: 'To do things right, it must be done the Martha Stewart way!'....She does things the …

I finished Twain's The Innocents Abroad last week. Now I've finished Terry Pratchett's Small Gods (I started it Sunday evening) and begun a Philip K. Dick anthology. The Pratchett and Dick I received as gifts …

Last night's Prairie Home Companion featured a wonderful, euphoria-inducing Rhubarb Pie sketch, which almost made up for an awful, superlatively tasteless song infusing gospel into a The-Day-The-World-Trade-Towers-Fell ballad. And I do mean "full of wonder" …

As at least two of you (viz., Leonard and Adam) know, Leonard and Adam and I visited San Francisco's Exploratorium yesterday. I found myself comparing it favorably with Stockton's Children's Museum of Stockton (a more …

From Friday afternoon:"You should come to our party tomorrow night." "The thing is, I might be cuddling." "Yes, cuddling takes precedence."

I am annoyed both at my own fundamental uncertainty about most things, and/but I am also annoyed at other people's certainty. Seth David Schoen sheds some light on the matter.

Some of the singing groups in Music today -- including mine -- were so rhythm-challenged that we would have gratefully welcomed the intervention of a UN Timekeeping Force.

Hey Adam, thanks for the link to a scrumptious Washington Post story on my Jon Stewart Liebowitz.

If you're tired of typing in www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~sumanah, now you can try www.brainwane.net, which redirects to the same place, for now. After I graduate and the OCF kicks me off, I'll have to get a hosting …

Remember the Indian-American artist (one of Krishna's roommates) from American Desi? Well, American Chai uses that same basic character type (Indian-American college student whose parents can't take that he's an artist) as the protagonist. And …