Just see what you’ve done: “Have you ever liked a villain more than the hero? Who and why?” Week one The game: Patriots at Seahawks The beer: Riverwalk Legato Italian Pilsner The result: Loss, 13–10 The record: 0–1 The headline: “She was right in the rain of the bullets that eventually brought her down.” – […]
“We have a Switch??” Nothing gets past a nine-year-old (at the time) and thus last April’s school-vacation surprise was blown. That’s what I get for assuming consumer discretionaries can’t creep their way into kids’ awareness in the age of commercial-less streaming. That’s what I get for making no effort whatsoever to hide the distinctive red […]
This might be a June thing from now on. “June thirtieth” has a nice ring to it. June thirtieth, June thirtieth, noon girly plinth, poon whirling myth… let’s keep this short. (Too late.) If someone had told me in August 2005 when I drafted my first post—which had no resemblance whatsoever to what is purported […]
Updated: January 1, 2018 Chronicling, for some reason, every book and short story I’ve read since The Lord of the Rings late in the spring. This is a companion to the rabble-rousing “Selected readings from the Old Lady Book Club,” protested openly by AARP, NOW and other pro-civility agencies. You cannot spell literati without ire, […]
We put up the Christmas tree on December 22. Weekends came and went and weeknights were dark, cold and white-washed enough that it was too much bother. I enjoy the holidays but could muster neither the enthusiasm to carry an unwieldy box (fake tree alert!) up the basement stairs nor the patience to arrange the […]
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