It’s rainy. It’s stormy. It’s really quite dismal. Perfect weather for getting some writing done! 🙂 ETA: Writing done. The storm’s done, too. All is good with the world.
Monthly Archives: September 2008
On Songs Morphing Back and Forth
First, a random housekeeping note. The hajj in 2010 is scheduled for November 14th to 17th. In case you were planning on visiting Mecca in 2010, that’s the time you should go. The real reason for this post? The Chicago Cubs. Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam wrote a new song about the Cubs — “GoContinue reading “On Songs Morphing Back and Forth”
On Nelson’s Birthday
Two-hundred and fifty years ago today — September 29, 1758 — Horatio Nelson was born in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk. The hero of the Nile and Trafalgar, Nelson and his fleets kept Napoleon’s navy at bay.
On the Next John McCain Hail Mary
The headline says it all — “McCain camp prays for Palin wedding.” Why is the McCain campaign “praying”? Let’s put it like this — Republican presidential standard bearer John McCain had a pretty rough week last week. His Vice Presidential running mate, Sarah Palin, sat for an interview with Katie Couric — and came outContinue reading “On the Next John McCain Hail Mary”
On Missing Toothpaste
Does anyone know what my grandmother has done with the toothpaste? It’s Aquafresh. A new tube. Bought on Thursday. If seen, please let me know. Thanks! ETA: We can call off the APB on the toothpaste. Although I went out and bought another tube — my grandmother has a couple of places in the kitchenContinue reading “On Missing Toothpaste”
On the Debate and John McCain’s Lies
Okay, the debate. Let’s liveblog. 🙂 Barack Obama is hardly “the most liberal member of the Senate” as McCain likes to say. Two tax brackets? Did I catch that correctly? McCain wants to collapse the tax brackets to only two? How is building nuclear power plants, as McCain suggests we need to do, going toContinue reading “On the Debate and John McCain’s Lies”
On Community Organizers, Myth, History, and Politics
Over the past month I’ve seen a meme making its way across the interwebs. Not a meme in the questions-passed-from-blog-to-blog sense that “meme” usually means online, but a meme in the more traditional sense, an idea that’s spreading and taking root. The meme? “Jesus was a community organizer. Pontius Pilate was a governor.” This is,Continue reading “On Community Organizers, Myth, History, and Politics”
On “The Life Bringer”
I was flipping through the new Previews — that being the catalog of upcoming comics — and I saw that IDW Publishing is continuing with their Doctor Who Classics series. According to the solicit for Doctor Who Classics Volume 2, number 1, the classic fourth Doctor story being reprinted is “The Life Bringer.” In “TheContinue reading “On “The Life Bringer””
On LEGO Beatles
In the annals of the “strange, but cool,” I have to submit this — LEGO Beatles album covers! Yes, several of the Beatles’ classic album covers have been done in LEGO. I really like LEGO A Hard Day’s Night. 🙂 There are some talented artists out there. These are amazing, if that’s your kind ofContinue reading “On LEGO Beatles”
On Wild Card Musings
As a Cubs fan :cubs:, I find myself in the awkward position of pulling for — not rooting for — the New York Mets. I find it awkward for two reasons. One, the pain of 1969, despite being years before I was born, still runs too deep, and thus the Mets choking two years runningContinue reading “On Wild Card Musings”