shavedapebaby

Happy birthday, beloved

shavedapebaby Apr 23, 2005 10:40

Today is my wife's birthday. Another year of living and breathing and making the world a damn sight better than it would have been without her. Another year of being my best friend, my wiliest adversary, my muse, my anchor of reason, my fantasy girl, and the greatest thing that ever happened to me. I love her with everything I am ( Read more... )

Black smoke, white smoke

shavedapebaby Apr 20, 2005 08:53

Mystery solved. Yesterday's half hour of confusion surrounding whether the smoke coming from the Vatican chimney was white or black stems from the fact that the oven used to burn the ballots of the College of Cardinals is inadequate. It is much too small for its intended use and in terrible shape after so many years, but tradition demands that the ( Read more... )

Another toot

shavedapebaby Apr 19, 2005 00:43

New review up, this time of Reform School Girl. No, it's not the good one.

http://www.popmatters.com/film/reviews/r/reform-school-girl-dvd.shtml

Why I do this to myself I'll never know.

The tragically ludicrous? The ludicrously tragic?

shavedapebaby Apr 06, 2005 05:26

Nobel, Pulitzer winner Saul Bellow dieshttp://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/books/04/05/saul.bellow/index.htmlRead more... )

The Pope

shavedapebaby Apr 02, 2005 20:17

His Holiness John Paul II is dead, and I am deeply saddened. For someone who has found himself keeping the deathwatch this year as good guy after good guy has fallen, this is enormous. How much more of a good guy is there than John Paul II ( Read more... )

Quote

shavedapebaby Apr 01, 2005 10:48

"It's a sad day for American capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over Central Park."

Jay Moran (1907-1999), huckster, hoax artist, and Great American

April 1st

shavedapebaby Apr 01, 2005 10:34

Today is April Fools' Day, and soon the kids will be up and figuring out ways to get us. They're funny kids, but they haven't quite figured out the subtle gradations between good-natured pranksterism and arbitrary cruelty, so I'll need to watch them ( Read more... )