...I wanted to chime in on the "What's the best advice your father ever gave you?" meme; I was away from the Internet all day Sunday, and so I'm just seeing other folks' responses now ( Read more... )

I learned yesterday from Facebook that surrealestate and her husband had a healthy, handsome baby boy. This is wonderful news, and I wish the three of them great joy as the begin their new lives (in one case literally). Blessings on you all!

I do celebrate Christmas, in a half-assed, secular sort of way. (As Dan Savage once put it, a number of his atheist, bacon-loving friends of Hebraic descent nonetheless sometimes seize holiday opportunities to gather together and act like Big Fat Jews for reasons of tradition; Christmas is, I suppose, this agnostic's opportunity to act like a Big ( Read more... )

"First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys. Not that all months aren't rare. But there be bad and good, as the pirates say. Take September, a bad month: school begins. Consider August, a good month: school hasn't begun yet. July, well, July's really fine: there's no chance in the world for school. June, no doubting it, June's best of all ( Read more... )

No, I'm not including Kat and the cats, nor family and dear friends. Those all go without saying.

1. The staircase fencing battle between Errol Flynn and Basil Rathbone in The Adventures of Robin Hood..
2. David Schow's short story "Monster Movies."
3. Lewis Shiner's novel Glimpses, which along with Lewis Shiner's novel Say Goodbye says nearly all ( Read more... )

Absence from LJ-age in general has prevented me from making my usual doomed assay at posting a poem a day during April-is-the-coolest-month. Seeing a couple of friends' lovely selections, though, has inspired me to venture forth from my hermetic redoubt and post at least the odd verse or two ( Read more... )