I started to post something here about the enormous number of dead and dying cockroaches that I have been annoyed by over the course of the past week, but this #### system ate it without saving it because I wasn't logged in beforehand. So you won't get to read about all the places I found the things ( Read more... )

I'm still here, and can only say that the interval since my last post hasn't been a rollicking ball of laffs and excitement. OTOH I wasn't faced with any particularly life-threatening situations, as has ALAS been the case of too many people of my acquaintance. I do now have a better idea of (part of) what has been doing a number on me: a much- ( Read more... )

Five and a half months since my last post here and while I have considered posting something topical here from time to time I never got around to doing so - possibly due to the fact that by the time I find myself sitting here ready to roll I no longer have any idea what I was going to post about. This also happens when writing letters and so on. ( Read more... )

Last post was in April last year, which comes to 1 1/2 years. Having just made a riff through the LJ directory in my bookmarks and finding 3 out of 4 LJers to be similarly slow to post here (and several wondering why they continued to have a LJ account), I find myself in some doubt as to whether I should start posting again. In an election year ( Read more... )

A lot has happened since my last post here, some not so great, and I'll probably give the books etc stuff a go-by for now, maybe permanently. Who reads that and who cares? Not that I haven't made some interesting additions to the Library. Ah, well...

So today's Houston Chronic had a movie ad and article about something that came right out of ( Read more... )

I have the usual stacks o' new books & stuff but let's leave that aside for the moment. Let's talk about ... PAYPAL ( Read more... )

Still here, with a small stack of music CDs on hand.

Convergence, by David Arkenstone and David Lanz - alternating tracks, some of them already appearing elsewhere

Affirmation, by Savage Garden - I now have this CD in a listenable state - the title track being my favorite

Windham Hill Records Sampler '88, and
Windham Hill Records Sampler '89 - ( Read more... )

Having allowed the various books and tapes to accumulate in unruly stacks ( Read more... )

Another load of books, including one picked up yesterday, in no particular order:

Eat The Rich: A Treatise on Economics, by P. J. O'Rourke (1998) - actually quite interesting, but I wonder how PJ would write it if he was doing so this year...

The Naked Artist: Comic Book Legends, by Bryan Talbot, illus by Hunt Emerson - are all comic book artists ( Read more... )

Actually it's usually hot this time of year, and gets hotter. I stopped by the post office this morning and found the sidewalk in front infested by LaRouchites, with their annoying posters calling for the impeachment of our beloved Fearless Leader (with Hitler moustaches added to his pictures in case we don't quite catch on). A closer examination ( Read more... )