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I love to travel, but I always enter a black hole of self-doubt beforehand that turns me into Emma Woodhouse's father. Why am I leaving home at one of the prettiest times of year? Why subject myself to the stress and the complications? Why not sit in the dappled shade of my garden and be happy that I have a brief respite? Is it not true, as ( Read more... ) -
Lord Peter Wimsey and the Golden Age
“I may say his views on women and the stage were such as I should have expected of a man who would smoke with your lordship’s port.” - Mervyn Bunter ( Read more... ) -
domestic pleasures
I missed a lot of things while I was sick -- one of them being a working brain, as it was hard to focus on anything for very long. But I also missed some domestic events around my house: I missed my second, smaller dog, Gracie, who -- constant jumper and hyper-barker and champion pee-er that she is -- was a bit beyond my ability to handle while I ( Read more... ) -
visit to a small country
I have returned from a visit to the country of pain, a place where all of us stop from time to time, and some of us live. It is a small country, to hold so many of us; small enough to crawl over, to learn each stone and shard of glass in the road with a sickening familiarity ( Read more... ) -
Reign
Have you been wondering what I’ve been up to? The answer is REIGN. As I tweeted back in May, “This show is crack, people. Expect chocolate AND peanut butter ( Read more... ) -
why government officials are like the television industry
Alex Koppelman is suspicious of the White House’s early response to Benghazi. It seems that ( Read more... ) -
books books books
I am in a hotel in an undisclosed location, pondering my life. I want to write more books ( Read more... ) -
the artifice of eternity (Sherlock spoilers)
Well, Sherlock's second season has with maddening desultoriness finally wended its way across the ocean. Could it have taken longer? I've been pacing like Penelope waiting for Odysseus to get off his ass and show up to set things right ( Read more... ) -
the end
Just back from the House series wrap party at one of my favorite places in Los Angeles, the art deco Cicada Club and Restaurant. Built by a wealthy haberdasher (!) in 1928, the building’s a gem of deco splendor, and once a week you can enjoy dinner and dancing to a vintage jazz band ( Read more... ) -
success (it seems)
Thanks to everyone for your help! estara managed to locate a page on Amazon UK that had one copy of the book listed. Once I fell into the ruts of bureaucratic routine, suddenly everything became easy, and it went from a belated Christmas present to a guaranteed Friday arrival ( Read more... )