I really had to eat my words after my last entry — and there was plenty of water (in the form of rain) to wash them down with…. Uncharacteristically, we went from a “Mediterranean” summer (i.e., typical drought and quite a bit of dry heat) to this damp, dreary week that deserved Heinrich Heine‘s summing […]
Vacation – August05-22 Originally uploaded by Bananarama. Hello, I’m testing the “blog this” feature on Flickr, and it’s way too fast for me. This is a photo of an old “castle” (actually, a McMansion of its day) a few blocks from where I live — it was posted on Flickr by Bananrama, and I hit […]
In Northern Hemispheres: Delusions August is a vicious month. It walks on legs unsteady, Made prickly by a previous Winter’s weight of bad choices. Well stuck together by the colder months, Held fast internally they were, yet seemed to move. But July’s heat unglued these parts, The conglomerates of histories, And stumbling, August can enact […]
Well, hold on to your hats if Adam Sparks’s editorial, Why Kerry Will Lose The Election in the San Francisco Gate is on the money. What I really distrust in Sparks’s analysis is his manipulation of how we should perceive perception: Sparks regards the potentially popular perception that Kerry would be (marginally, infinitesimally) better than […]
To blog or not to blog? Although not exactly taking a summer break, I’m an oppressed summery mass nonetheless, crushed by domestic chores that somehow seem to be going ’round and ’round, like an endless sushi loop at “Yo Sushi,” to quote Eddy from AbFab. Forget the links, no time. If you haven’t seen the […]
Who would have known? I will be barbequed by an angry dragon How will you die? Take the Exotic Cause of Death Test Via the inimitable Doug writing here.
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