Not. Lee took Ray out to give me some writing time (and to give Ray out-of-the-house time) and picked up Variable Star, by Robert Heinlein and Spider Robinson, and some good chocolate for me. I finished up writing, decided I needed COFFEE, and picked up World War Z, by Max Brooks (also wrote The Zombie […]
I saw the moon rise. It was p-i-n-k. And the size of a golf ball.
Report to room 100A for your allowance… My brother Matt’s wife, Erica, has the coolest meeting rooms at work.
In 2005, Time magazine picked the 100 best English-language novels (1923-present). Mark the selections you have read in bold. If you liked it, add a star (*) in front of the title, if you didn’t, give it a minus (-). [I’ve added, if you feel totally indifferent or just can’t remember, mark it with a
From the CMZ newsletter: Umande Finally Meets Mom Umande now has a gorilla mom to call his very own! Lulu, a 41-year-old female, and Umande have been getting to know each other since his arrival at the Columbus Zoo in early October. They seemed to form a bond early on. He would vocalize when he
Ted Haggard, the leader of the New Life Church in Colorado Springs (a very popular, massive church on the north side of town, and a big supplier of Focus on the Family shock troops), resigned yesterday after being accused of having sex with a gay prostitute. Why does it have to be like this? Why
Jack Black is the leader of the pseudo-punk Nasties in Neverending Story III (1994). The same facial expressions, the same gestures as in King Kong. Hm…he was in Waterworld, too.
Watching Prince of Egypt with Ray. What a cruel story…the only solution to conflict being death, death, death in the name of a miracle. Death is justified if your people are oppressed. (Justified…as if it were an act without a price.) Thousands of years later, the Moses story is still being carried out in the
When the Japanese Fire God, Kagu Tsuchi, was born, he burnt his mother, Izanami-no-Mikoto, to death. His father, Izanagi-no-Mikoto, killed Kagu Tsuchi, chopped him into eight pieces which turned into eight mountain gods. (My guess is these were volcanoes?) Izanagi-no-Mikoto followed his sister-wife to the land of the dead, but she’d already eaten of the
Went to the Mall again this year. Ray was a baby kitty, and I was the momma kitty. The best costume this year was mother wearing shepherdess costume (with crook), and toddler wearing sheep outfit. Little Bo Peep!
