Hey, Big Man, relax;
God can't be more demanding
Than was your old Boss

Fame slowed down for him,
But then it never quite stopped--
Like a yellow light.

(I just now found out he died. Very sad.)

Big changes coming down; can't speak of them in any great detail now of course, but all will be told very soon. But I have to make a big decision, and if there's one thing I cannot do (besides ride a bike or speak Turkish) it's make a decision. I suck at making decisions. It's a Libra thing, I know, but even more than that; pretty much all the ( Read more... )

Like most people who want to see as much of the world as possible and have only three weeks a year to do it, I am reluctant to go back to a place I've been. But, I think I can make an exception for Rome ( Read more... )

She led the way for
Strong, smart, capable women,
And Sarah Palin.

The stuff of legend,
Such beauty and such talent ...
The last of her kind.

I know I said I'd get to Mr. Darcy and I will, but first, in honor of yesterday being St. Patrick's Day and also because I'm kind of ODing on C19 British novels here, I want to talk about a class-A douchebag who is very near and dear to my heart: Malachy McCourt Sr., the father in Angela's Ashes ( Read more... )

While I'm on the subject of the Brontes, I might as well discuss that other great anti-hero douchebag Edward Rochester, who wasn't as psychotic as Heathcliff, but still very much an asshole.

(Seriously, what was it with the Brontes and their shitheaded romantic ideals? Was it the Byron thing? Because, you know I totally get that, but considering ( Read more... )

Prompted by this post on Pajiba (you can read it here) and subsequent discussion, I had to go and watch the recent Masterpiece Theater production of Wuthering Heights. Gotta say, Tom Hardy is IMO the douchiest Heathcliff of them all, and that's really saying something, considering that Heathcliff is perhaps the douchiest character in all of English ( Read more... )

Lace and I are currently on a break. I wouldn't say I'm bored of it, exactly; we just need some time apart. We're both totally cool about it. Anyhoo, these days I'm stepping out with the cables ( Read more... )