So, I'm not much of a journaller of late. There are a couple reasons for that.

First & foremost, by day I take care of my son, and evenings and weekends I do in-home sales, which means I have little time to compose anything of a level I'd want to post.

This also means I have not a whole lot I want to post. The minutiae of parenthood, while ( Read more... )

Or rather, it came to a screeching halt when I actually engaged the issue ( Read more... )

The G.O.P., in its infinite benificence, is talking of putting forward an amendment to the Constitution limiting Congress to a maximum of 12 years, both House of Representatives and Senate. I have a few thoughts on the matter ( Read more... )

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In late August the FBI indeed raided the duplex next door to us. We were out. We got home to, like, twenty unmarked police vehicles, lights on in every room, agents in vests reading FBI and IRS-CID rummaging through the dressers and closets (all visible through the open curtains 10' away from our bedroom). We were only told we had no cause for ( Read more... )

Landscape Architecture has lost one of the few true giants of the profession this week. Lawrence Halprin died at age 94 this past Sunday ( Read more... )

This one goes out to Mr. Charles Durning. No, he’s not dead. At least not to my knowledge. I just wanted to salute him.

When he appears at the door in the original When A Stranger Calls you honestly don’t know if he’s the killer or an arriving cop. His eyes are dead, and it’s no small amount of creepy. He makes the burnt-out detective utterly ( Read more... )

On the one hand, they were paranoid about the financial commitment.

On the other, they were really, really into the food.

If you're gonna get stoned before the salesman comes over, at least have the decency to air out the house.