Since creating this journal, I have gone through periods where I posted quite a lot. The vast majority of those posts are currently designated either friends-protected or entirely private, leaving the journal with a rather deforested look. My profile, too, has become much less helpful, except to those who are actually interested in the mythological ( Read more... )

Art by Louise Mellon

Happy birthday to P. Vergilius Maro, Friedrich Nietzsche, and P. G. Wodehouse!

(And many thanks to Garrison Keillor and the Writer's Almanac for bringing these three happy anniversaries to my attention!)

"Meet Helen of Troy: bald-headed, bare-breasted and bloodthirsty" by Jonathan Thompson of the Independent (10 October 2005)

In other news, Jenny's reading at Politics and Prose yesterday evening was totally fab. You should really all be sure to try and catch her on her book tour!

I just got back from seeing Michael Penn at World Cafe Live. As expected, he was amazing - as a musician, as a singer, as a performer. And the crowd was very enthusiastic, even giving MP a (well deserved) standing ovation after the faux-encore ( Read more... )

My friend Jenny's first book has come out! It's called Inheriting the Holy Land: An American's Search for Hope in the Middle East. You should all buy it, read it, review it, and buy copies for your friends, family, and dustmen. You should also catch Jenny on her book tour (dates posted in the Events section here).

Inspired by Amalthea12, I have stolen ( Read more... )

( love's all in the brain )

( first-ever nuuchahnulth / nootka dictionary )

( mummy's recent trip to idaho )

last sept., when rana and I were living on s. 12th street, we rescued a kitten from the back alley. she was tiny - five, maybe six weeks old - and cried so piteously and continuously outside my window that I knew we had to do something. but what? I already had a cat, so I couldn't take in a stray kitten. we had no good place to quarantine her ( Read more... )