A quick warning. This post may strike some readers as being potentially morbid. I saw a car accident Tuesday evening. I’m not entirely clear what happened–I caught it in the rearview mirror while I was at a convenience store. A mid-sized car, an SUV, airbags deployed on both vehicles. When I passed back through theContinue reading “On Future Thinking”
Monthly Archives: June 2007
On Testing the LJ Crossposter
And twenty-four hours later, the LJ Crossposter appears to be working again. We shall see. 😉 Now to see if editing a post breaks things… I put up the windows on my car. It’s supposed to drop down into the forties tonight. Put in the key, turn the ignition, and what do I hear? Nickelback.Continue reading “On Testing the LJ Crossposter”
On Narrative Conventions
About a week ago the Washington Post ran a feature article on Michael Ondaatje, author of The English Patient. He’s released a new novel, Divisadero, and the article examines Ondaatje’s working methods: He begins with fragmentary images or situations — a plane crashing in the desert, say, or a bedridden man talking to a nurseContinue reading “On Narrative Conventions”
On Scooter Libby's Sentence
Scooter Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney’s former Chief of Staff, was convicted earlier this year of perjery and obstruction of justice in stemming from the revelation of Valeria Plame’s identity as a covert CIA agent. Today, Scooter Libby will be sentenced. Twenty months. That’s my guess. ETA: And I was wrong! It was thirty months!Continue reading “On Scooter Libby's Sentence”
On the Boston Legal Cast Shake-Up
Here’s the word from Boston-Legal.Org, the place for Boston Legal goings-on: “Rene [Auberjonois] has learned that he has been released from the cast of “Boston Legal.” According to what he was told, his character, “Paul Lewiston,” has been discontinued, as have the characters played by Julie Bowen, Mark Valley, and Connie Zimmer. Two new charactersContinue reading “On the Boston Legal Cast Shake-Up”
On eBooks
Way back in the dark ages of the year 2000 Microsoft released the MS-Reader eBook software. It was the platform on which a new line of Star Trek books were being released–SCE, or the Starfleet Corps of Engineers for those bad with acronyms–and I downloaded the software, and I downloaded the eBooks. A couple ofContinue reading “On eBooks”
On the Coming Zombie Apocalypse
The world’s turning to zombies! What are my chances of survival…? 46% Well… that‘s not good. That’s virtually a flip of the coin.
On Strange Conversation
Yesterday morning I was in the kitchen fixing a cup of coffee. Coffee poured, sugar added, I was ready to put in a dollop of milk. I opened the refrigerator door, I took out the bottle of milk, and… My grandmother said, “The milkman came? Is it fresh?” Now, I am not someone who’s quiteContinue reading “On Strange Conversation”
On the Sgt Pepper Anniversary
Yesterday, in honor of the 40th-anniversary of the release of Sgt Pepper, I listened to the album, both the original and two cover versions, several times. I listened to it before I went to work. 🙂 I wore my Sgt Pepper tie to work. I listened to it again when I got home from work.Continue reading “On the Sgt Pepper Anniversary”
On Countdowns
Six weeks to Shore Leave! Woo! Six weeks to Shore Leave! Woo! Six weeks to Shore Leave! Woo!