Intrigue and Big Fish at the Hip Joint

In today’s Style Invitational, entrants were asked to write poems about people who passed on in the last year. At 105, old Madame Chiang At last met her mortality, That’s got to be a record for A Taipei  [more...]

The latest contest in The Washington Post’s Style Invitational asked for acts, bills, or resolutions sponsored by new members of Congress. Some of my faves: Miller-Miller-Dole act to provide every hungry person in  [more...]

It's one of my geekier predispositions, my obsession with scrutinizing the sets on TV shows. I watch television armed with a pencil and graph paper, sketching out the floorplans and trying to figure out how the sets are  [more...]