General query: if someone persistently mentions you in a certain fictional, unflattering way, with the intention of destroying your name or polluting your rep, do you flatter those references with a response? No outright accusations, no bold statements with active verbs; just building a case by lies and exaggeration to paint you as callous and ( Read more... )

She was a wonderful artist. There's a memorial at www.susiebright.com that includes links elsewhere, and some of her most popular work (though not my favorite items, by far.)

Also included is a target for Lost Girls, by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie, which is the grown-up version (or primitive version, if you are a fancier of the raw material of ( Read more... )

"Now, cheer up, Toad," she said coaxingly, on entering, "and sit up and dry your eyes and be a sensible animal. And do try and eat a bit of dinner. See, I've brought you some of mine, hot from the oven ( Read more... )

DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) -- Irish archaeologists Tuesday heralded the discovery of an ancient book of psalms by a construction worker while driving the shovel of his backhoe into a bog ( Read more... )

Okay, my darlings, it has been far too long -- and I still have no time -- but for now, all I can do is howl! I hope someone else saw Queer Eye for the SCA Guy last night...I also hope no one saw it....

Howdy, Citizens! My life is a-whirl (someplace between Kansas and Oz) and I'm ready for touchdown, at any velocity. No details are too big; all statements are too small; and all I can hear is the pounding of blood in my ears. The very good, the very bad, and the very ugly are queued up with tickets out. All Aboard ( Read more... )

...if Fox anchor Tony Snow accepts the position as the new White House spokesman, and if any liberal has the minimal marbles it takes to snark the journalistic impartiality of Fox News, conservatives will shout some noise about "freedom of the press"? I'm not saying I disagree with the principle, but I'm looking forward to hearing their lips shape ( Read more... )

WOMEN

Tea is one, wine another, women the third:
My three follies that leave me no peace.
I shall have to give up whichever I can.
I should be able to give up tea, I think. And wine.

-- Tran Te Xuong (1868 - 1909)
(trans. by Nguyen Ngoc Bich with W.S. Merwin)

Say I’m weary, say I’m sad,
Say that health and wealth have missed me,
Say I’m growing old, but add,
Jenny kissed me.

Once out of nature I shall never take
My bodily form from any natural thing,
But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make
Of hammered gold and gold enamelling
To keep a drowsy Emperor awake;
Or set upon a golden bough to sing
To lords and ladies of Byzantium
Of what is past, or passing, or to come.