Just As I Thought
Fun Stuff

Portrait of the Artist

Ah, that day when my friends Sara and Lance and I went to the Hirshhorn gallery to see the Laurie Anderson exhibit, and turned around to discover that we were being followed by… Laurie Anderson.

April 24, 2023
General Annoyances

I am my own worst menace

So. I put a kettle of water on to boil. Then, without thinking, I took Diego for a walk. A long walk. I went down the street, around the corner, then around another corner to see the new construction happening next to  [more...]

January 3, 2006

On the Board

Right = Wrong

New Year Predictions

Eugene Robinson makes these rather obvious predictions for 2006: (1) George W. Bush will continue his bid to enter the Guinness Book of World Records for “Most Frequent Use of the Blame-the-Messenger Strategy  [more...]

January 3, 2006
Life... Don't talk to me about life.

Uncompassionate Liberal

I’m ashamed of myself now for that last post. Unlike talking to someone in real life, I can take back what I said on the blog just by deleting the entry. But I’ll let it stand as evidence of my lack of  [more...]

January 2, 2006
General Annoyances

About the 750 pound man

After the sad shock of the poor child in Indonesia, the next program on TLC was about a man in Maryland who weighed more than 700 pounds. They had to dismantle his house around him to get him out for help after 7 years  [more...]

January 2, 2006
The War with the Customer

Our smelly world

Have you ever noticed that there is a huge industry devoted to making deodorizers and “home fragrances”? And it seems like there is a new product to make our homes smell like vanilla or lilies or roses or  [more...]

January 2, 2006
Right = Wrong

Reality is a bitch

The big headline on Washington Post.com this morning is “U.S. Has End in Sight on Iraq Rebuilding.” This headline is quite misleading — not surprising, as the historically liberal Washington Post often  [more...]

January 2, 2006