So, I had thought, "I never got a response to my contest entry, and therefore I infer that Slate didn't choose me for its Book Club." But just recently I saw that the "Culturebox" articles …

Michael Kinsley, as acid as he's ever been: "In the pervasive culture of spin, it's possible that Ken Lay was describing a reality he wanted without even considering the relation of what he was saying …

I returned the Music textbook/CD set that I mistakenly bought and got enough money for the correct Music text and my Russian text/cassette set and then some. Of course, I had to wait for much …

This is my hundredth entry this month. I've written some important e-mails and sent them off. Now, to get ready for the day and buy my reader.

I hope I can make this a busy day. I will pick up my logic reader and do my homework for that class before Linguistics lecture. I will. I just realized that I have two …

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine could have featured a Cardassian officer named Gul Um. He would have been rather inarticulate and obsessed with power, yet strangely impotent, and a passing Federation ensign (Bill?) could steal …

Today a great deal of reality bonked me on the head. I attended the first class sessions of Intro to Logic, Basic Musicianship, and Advanced Russian Conversation. Holy shroud, this semester's full of work. Every …

The always-crotchety Self-Made Critic tells us, re: the cast of Gosford Park, "...Stephen Fry, Ryan Phillippe, Clive Owen, Kelly Macdonald, Ron Webster and some other people that are equally as important to the film but …

So now I have this theory about people's first great loves (in French, the grande passion, I think). The relationships tend to end in quarreling and talking past each other and miscommunication galore because "true …

No one except Leonard came to my party tonight. Waaah! Well, at least that means that the last party will certainly have many guests!