After several years of progressive illness my health has taken an upswing from the nadir of the summer of 2016 where I lost nearly 60-lb and lay in bed 20 hours a day at a frail 142-lb.

My weight's up and so's my dander.

I wrote the below on the Get Satisfaction discussion board -- https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/ ( Read more... )

A couple of weeks ago I took this political policy matching survey:

http://www.isidewith.com/political-quiz

with these results:

http://www.isidewith.com/results/317635188  It's official -- I'm slightly to the left of Bob Crane ( Read more... )

  Still riding a high from the Festival and contemplating a few people I met who I neglected to mention in my last entry, reminds me I should tip a hat:

Michael Underwood -- with whom I discussed poet Dylan Thomas because for me Mike's surname evoked Thomas' Under Milk Wood, which was a new one on Mr. Underwood whose experience with fen ( Read more... )

  Lois McMaster Bujold surprised me on Tuesday by posting at Baen's Bar that she was flying in from Minnesota to attend the Baltimore Book Festival this past weekend.

I called my family members to whom I had addicted introduced her books.  The short notice produced wails as agonized realization ensued that they had counter-scheduled.  Oh, well ( Read more... )

  Prepping the packing -- clothes, computers, books-to-purchase list [Hey, Larry!], books to bring for autographs.

Be there in 8!

JJB

  Today marks the 21st anniversary of my daughter Kayleigh's birth.

I've never held her, touched her, hugged her, dyed Easter eggs with her, helped with her homework, played catch with her, read bedtime stories to her, kissed her goodnight, or watched over her as she slept, as I did my stepchildren Lisa and Aaron, my son Matthew, or my many ( Read more... )

   Several years ago, when on his AOL Community forum, Michael Francis Flynn m_francis asked his ever-bickering faithful fans if they would care to assist him in a story he was writing.
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On Thursday my 8-year-old cousin Gabriel Fennemore was recognized by the State of Delaware's Governor Jack Markell for his environmentalism accomplishments.

Gabriel, who is home-schooled, spent the last two years photographing animals and plants.  With his father Bart's help setting up the template and teaching him how to upload, Gabriel produced an ( Read more... )

  My cousins -- the brilliant, beautiful, gracious Elizabeth and her nearly as brilliant, artistic, good-natured, loving husband Christopher -- introduce their most recent collaborative effort, Aria Elizabeth Rose, born approximately 5 PM today, 18 July 2012.  Weighing in at 7 lb 2 oz, reaching 21", she's a contendah!
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My daughter's uncle's business partner of 55 nearly 50 years [from when the former was a boyish Al Pacino-ish appearing CPA and the latter a raffish rogue radio personality from NYC], who became the Young Turks of the Philly Scene and the later Boy-Conquerors of the American Music Nation, died today.

He was 82.

Rock & Roll is said to have started, if ( Read more... )