Jon Carroll, like me, will soon clean up his papers. I need to save some of the notes from classes long gone just so I'll have something tangible over which to reminisce. Right?
Leonard alerted me to "Hack On, Jeeves": I didn't need Sherlock Holmes to explain Jeeves' icy manner. It was the Samsung video monitor I'd brought home the other day for my computer.
When I was but a lass, in my senior year of high school, I took Advanced Placement World Literature with Lynda Nahigian, and we had to perform a graduation requirement called the Senior Project. Each …
In the preface or epilogue to paperback editions of best-selling books (e.g., Ender's Game, Iacocca, The Gift of Fear), authors oft say something like, "I never expected that I would get thousands of letters from …
Gavin de Becker can't stand local TV news. In The Gift of Fear, he rails against its sensationalism and fearmongering and faddiness and generally low standard of reporting on about three separate instances in the …
Thanks to a very pleasant and helpful DMV employee named "Dan," I have made an appointment to take my driver's license behind-the-wheel exam this Thursday afternoon. Observation: I could have gotten an appointment for the …
In Jalalabad one can get bootlegged LOTR tapes. Dubbed or subtitled? Letterbox or reformatted? Where's the Afghanistan branch of Consumer Reports when you need it?
Dave Barry Does Windows. I met Josh Brockman via alt.fan.dave_barry. And now he goes to Washington University in St. Louis and I have no reason to learn about golf or racing cars and passionately wish …
With my current haircut, I resemble the character of Anjali (Kajol) during the first half of Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, before she dons Indian garb and gets boring. Tomboy Anjali, critics (Leonard and me) agree, …
Leonard: "If you have a big enough lever, the whole world looks like a fulcrum."
