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Old Bones
Almost 4 AM and I can't sleep. Acupuncture in the early AM and then a spot of breakfast. I do have a nice lunch date to go over some paintings and the use of light by Rembrandt. Which means that this is one of my eventful days.
I've been listening to a lot of radio. Still. BBC 7 has Fatherland this week and Absolute Power to keep me entertained ( Read more... ) -
The Fiddler's Peeve or
... how there are no fandoms without the usual shipwrecks.
My three peeves that originated from trying the waters of a fandom with the tip of my toes.
1 There was the auction at FG. I bid and won a drawing by an artist present. I was really happy when I was told that instead of a sketch done then and there, if I could wait, I would get a ( Read more... ) -
Burning Bush
The title. Yes. It has less to do with G'd's burning bush up in Mount Horeb (You know the one. It's the Sign that will get Moses to go back to Pharaoh with the famous line "Let my people go...") than with Bonfire Night and the burning of effigies ( Read more... ) -
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
...Joy to you and me. That Jeremiah ( Read more... ) -
Who wins that supper at the Tabard Inn?
In earnest I give to you a piece of advice : Don't go Bunburying with people who Bunbury themselves ( Read more... ) -
BAPS & Heart Spillage
I can't sleep, but I'm pretty sure you are all soundly so. I got things to do this next week that I'm not looking forward to - the sort of things that poke you, needle you and then let you know how healthy you are independently of how you actually feel. Hence the wakefulness even at this early hour ( Read more... ) -
Monday, first thing.
It's quite late here. Around three in the morning, to be precise. I should be asleep, but am not and have no plans of going to bed any time soon. In the golden days, I'd read a book. I still have various volumes piled on a desk by my bed for that purpose. They are books of short stories, or of non-fiction full of funny, amusing and/or astonishing ( Read more... ) -
Nooses give; gas smells awful; you might as well live
How can you tell you are getting on in years? When all your piece of news read like symptoms. My grandmother was right [as usual] when she said that if you have your health, you make a far more interesting person. [The old lady had a low tolerance for her friends' conversations that consisted of a long list of ailments and little else.]
So. All I' ( Read more... ) -
Killing the Dead TM
"Mr. West, not every situation requires your patented approach of shoot first, shoot later, shoot some more and then when everybody's dead try to ask a question or two ( Read more... ) -
Out of Sight...
... sometimes doesn't add up to out of mind. Thank you for remembering, the happy birthdays, the e-mails, the cards, balloons and roses [yes, that's you hico]. It's still uncomfortable for me to sit at the computer and read, but not impossible [should still be a while, but at least there's the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel ( Read more... )