Well, said Sam Gamgee, I'm back.

Had a lovely time at the cabin this year.

This was the view from my bedroom there:


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But I never got around to seeing this before.  I love the Goth take on hip-hop (especially the Goth break dancers)  Bela Lugosi's SERVED!!

What a cool fantasy... carloads of Goths show up at a Beverly Hills house party and TAKE OVER!

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These are just my thoughts.  You are welcome to your own.

Our friends in California have become the second state to recognize same sex marriage.  The first being my upstairs neighbors in Massachusetts.  As my own home, Connecticut, has a pretty progressive legislature, it probably won't be long before we are on board.  From there I imagine it will ( Read more... )

I.  Criterion has picked up the rights to my favorite movie.  There has not been a US release on DVD so far.  Hopefully Criterion will do a decent treatment of it.

II.  More than a decade has passed since I put a former life away.   For reasons even I don't understand, I kept a single memento from that time.  This past weekend, with little ceremony ( Read more... )

All right, everyone.  I'm back.  I've hidden myself away for a while and now I want to come out and play ( Read more... )

I want to thank everyone for coming, for the distances you traveled, from those who saw my mother nearly every day, to those who only spent time with her a few days a month, or a couple times a year.  My mother would have been embarrassed by this turnout, yet deep down would have simply known that you all would be here.

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Just wanted to update, my Mom died around 3am this morning.  My father and I got to see her about an hour before it happened.  She was unconscious and on oxygen, but it was clear she was going fast.  We got to say our goodbyes, and told each other she could somehow know.

That's all I can say for now.  More later.

We seem to be nearing the end of my mother's illness.  There's a strong chance she won't survive the night.  Then again, she might.  But the nurses at the care center have seen this many times before and they say her difficulty in breathing is probably due to the cancer spreading to her lungs ( Read more... )

When did the word tourist become an insult?

Why is it when we see someone from out of town asking for directions to some interest point that we ourselves have long ignored, do we sneer and mutter "tourist" like they are somehow polluting our sacred ground?

Why is it when we visit another place, do we obsess about not seeming like a tourist, we look ( Read more... )