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 …

India Post headline: "Being Fired is a State of Mind." Wait, no.

I gave in and read Salon's "Masterpiece" on "Seinfeld." The last page especially reminded me of a high school friend, Karl Neuharth, who was at Pepperdine last I heard, but who now has completely disappeared …

Yesterday I had a hanging-out bonanza. Jeana came over and we had tea and discussed gender and folklore. Then Zack and I had dinner and he helped me move a bunch of stuff to Nandini's …