And what a strange land this is ( Read more... )

_Wide Sargassa Sea_
Another Jo. Tey book about Inspector Grant
Another P.G. Wodehouse book
_A Test of Wills_

Currently reading P. D. James's _Original Sin_

Granted, the decision was made under duress. Not that that really absolves me of responsibility--it merely makes my actions easier to understand. I was faced with something and I took the path of least resistance. A natural human response when surrounded by unbearable conditions. My decision was the cliched "lack of decision": a refusing to ( Read more... )

Double-reed manufacture is considerably more complex than the manufacture of single reeds (3, 13). In contrast to the single reed, the flat surface of which is clamped tightly to the flat outline of a mouthpiece, the medullar surface of the double reed must be transversely curved so that it can be closely attached to the staple or bocal by which it ( Read more... )

I've been behind in recording my reading. Since I've last written about a book, I've read _Endless Nights_ by Neil Gaimen, _Mirror, Mirror_ by Gregory Maguire, _Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West_ by Gregory Maguire, and _Jane Eyre_ by you-know-who ( Read more... )

I will eventually get around to posting my amusing stories. That is, as soon as I write them and edit them. That's the problem with making friends with Writing Center peeps--you are always concerned about the quality of what you show them ( Read more... )

This will piss my buddy Clark off, but for everyone else out there, here is the NRA blacklist. I suggest going here and signing up.

http://www.nrablacklist.com/

DJ,
Proud member of the NRA blacklist.

HOW TO SING THE BLUES ( Read more... )

This was a nephew of my great-great-great grandmother's ( Read more... )

Source: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nettimae/Davis/harp/sims_notes.htmRead more... )