ludimagist gave me the Sandman graphic novels to read. If I keep up reading it at this pace, I'll need to borrow the Lucifer series before the week is out.

( What Follows Is an Essay on My Relationship to Comic Books )

Despite a whole lot of not.sleep, I'm in a very good mood ( Read more... )

There's this Italian song called from the 50's called "Quando La Radio." It mentions stations from all over Italy: Radio Bologna, Radio Milano, Radio Igea. I've only ever heard a grainy version by a solo singer. To the best of my knowlege the singer was talking about the tone of all the different stations e.g. "Radio Bologna will take away your ( Read more... )

Click to read a New York Times Opinion.
Thus spoke Fish:
Nowadays, larding your conversations with small bits of erudition is more likely to irritate than to win friends and influence people.

To which I say...
...Unless you are talking to me. Then I probably love you.

Seriously though larding?! Such verbage ( Read more... )

Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum;
benedicta tu in mulieribus,
et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Jesus.
Sancta Maria (Sancta Maria, Maria!)
ora pro nobis peccatoribus,
nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.

...de profundis clamo ad te, Domine

Am almost done with Caleb Carr's "The Italian Secretary", a "further adventure of Sherlock Holmes". And it's bad. This is v. unfortunate. "The Alienist" was pretty good. You've let me down, Mr. Carr.