The bastion of right-wing comic mediocrity, Mallard Fillmore, is finally taking heat from readers of the Globe who expect comic strips to be actually, well… funny.
The controversy started on Monday with conjecture from the Globe
ombudsman, Christine Chinlund, that Mallard may soon be replaced by Prickly City, a “conservative” strip with a fresher and funnier perspective [...]
Last
weekend we took a short trip to New Hampshire with Rachel’s church
group for some snowshoing (me) and cross-country skiing (Rachel).
Showshoing is a lot like hiking, only noisier (the snow was very
crunchy that weekend). We also fit in a little boardgaming.
Since
this weekend our living room developed an incredibly strong floral
scent that defied explanation. We searched for anything that could be a
culprit — there are quite a lot of houseplants in the front window,
and for a while we theorized that the smell might be from something
dead or rotting. It was very pungent, enough to make me [...]
On Thursday I finally got around to getting sworn in to the Bar of
Massachusetts. For this I trekked up to the SJC’s new digs at the John
Adams Courthouse, definitely an improvement over their temporary
quarters at 1 Beacon.
I have no particular plans to practice, but I figured I may as well get sworn in before my [...]
Having not yet visited Christo’s The Gates installation in Central Park, I can’t say whether the Somerville Gates really compare. But, the creator of the latter does.
Hot off the Daily Kos : a Social Security calculator put out by the Senate Democrats (who seemed to have picked up some cojones at a yard sale or something recently). Obviously use it with a grain of salt; heck, read the fine print
with a grain of salt. I do like the Dems’ branding of [...]
The roads were finally clear enough today for me to give my new Bianchi “Castro Valley” road/commuter bike a spin. This thing flies compared
with my Raleigh mountain bike (especially after I added studded snow
tires to that monster). I bought this baby at Belmont Wheelworks. where
John Kerry bought his road bike last year. (Hey John, didn’t [...]
Ironically, I was in the midst of writing a strategic planning document when an email from my weekly Circuits email arrived from the New York Times, alerting to a must-read article about, well, keeping yourself focused on work and not getting distracted. So of course I put down the document and read it!
Recently I stumbled [...]
Benjamin Walker emailed me today…er, yesterday… about his piece for NPR’s On The Media about the apparent “renaissance” in comic strips. I’ll have to listen to it at work, since it’s in RealPlayer format. (Oh hey, check it out: a transcript. Well, now my excuse is: it’s 1-frickin’ 30 in the am!)
Thanks for the tip, [...]
Matt was kind enough to loan me his advance copy of Judy Budnitz’s new
collection of short stories. I’m posting below the review of it that I
wrote on Amazon:
Judy Budnitz dares make the genre of allegory palatable
again by stretching her metaphors to absurd lengths. In “Where we come from,” the
first in this excellent collection of short [...]
