I am writing to inform you that you have lost my business as a customer because of your donation to MN Forward, a hateful GOP PAC which supports hateful candidates and ideology bent on squashing the human and civil rights of my fellow human beings. Just because a person is gay does not mean [...]
Well, it’s three weeks to launch. The weekend of 14 May will be my last as a resident of Los Angeles at long last – for better or for worse. It’s the worse I’m worried about, but what will be will be. I can’t stay here, that’s for damned sure. I’ve [...]
So last night I saw “Julie & Julia” for the first time, and I haven’t stopped watching it since.
I adore Julia Child. She has been one of my most favourite and inspirational people for just about forever. The movie is nothing so much as a joyous love letter to the woman she was, [...]
At long last, I’ve done the update of the blag software and plugins.
I still like the way the site is laid out, but soon the archives will disappear. I just want to make a couple of custom error pages so folks hitting any soon-to-be-dead links will have an easy way to get to a fresh [...]
Suffice to say that the announcement that President Barack Hussein Obama (it may be a touch pedantic of me, but man, I love saying “President Obama”) was the recipient of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize came as a surprise to everyone, including him. Obama even said himself that his winning the prize came as [...]
The Anne Frank House has posted what is so far the only known moving images of Anne Frank, leaning out of the second-story window of her home in Amsterdam. Pretty spectacular find.
Thanks for giving me one of the best memories I have of my mother when I was very, very small.
This song is still unutterably sad to me. It was also the first real song I ever sang with my mom. I still remember hearing it when it was on the radio. [...]
