Slowly but surely — very slowly — I’m dismantling my life, throwing away everything, and finding amusements hidden in the dust. Here’s a headline that I had clipped and taped to one of the shelves in my office, oh, more than 10 years ago I think.

Slowly but surely — very slowly — I’m dismantling my life, throwing away everything, and finding amusements hidden in the dust. Here’s a headline that I had clipped and taped to one of the shelves in my office, oh, more than 10 years ago I think.

It was about time for my luck to change — my new windows arrived today, almost three weeks early! That more or less completes my renovations, leaving only a few little jobs like touching up some paint and getting [more...]
If you don’t already, take a moment to read the Washington Post’s Style Invitational, a contest of wit, intelligence, and bad taste. The results of Week CXLV are published today – that contest asked [more...]