Folks. My folks came out to visit. They were supposed to be here on Wednesday, but arrived on Sunday afternoon, having forgotten to call before they left. At the time, I thought it was strange–they were always so fanatical about calling before they left, in case “something happened.” Cell phones. Social changes. They had three […]

Julia Child. Julia Child died on Friday. What a good lady.

I usually limit myself to four-letter words. English: May the malevolent hedgehogs soil your cornflakes. Irish: Go salaí na gráinneoga cealgrúnacha do chuid calóga arbhair. Phonetic: guh SAH-lee nuh GRAWN-yoh-guh KYA-luhg-roo-nuh-khuh duh khwihj KAH-lo-guh AH-ruh-wir. An tInneal Mallachtaí via Randy.

Conversation. LEE [Insert casual insult here.] DE What the hell did you say that for? LEE God told me to. DE God sure tells you to do a say a lot of petty, stupid stuff to me. LEE Yup. DE I mean, he could be telling you to do something important, like take over the

Even more easily amused. Found a place with the FLCL collection for ten bucks. Ordered it.

Maybe nobody else is this easily amused. Forget the headline on this article. Read down a bit. “Other new cast members include Miranda Richardson as a newspaper gossip columnist…” Coooooool. She was in a lot of the Hallmark specials that covered classic fantasy and heroic novels. The one I’m thinking of is Alice in Wonderland.

Writerly thoughts. I’m reading another John R Gardner book on writing, On Becoming a Novelist. The other book, I forget the name off-hand, but the one culled from his writing class notes, is much more tolerant and understanding. This one, he’s right, you know he’s right, but he’s a cantankerous old writing teacher that’s had

Wander, wander, wander. Lee and I went dropped off the bebe and went wandering today. At one point, we wandered through a natural foods market (“I miss going to grocery stores where you dance in the aisles,” he said. “They have pretty good music here,” I said. I didn’t notice I was bouncing around until