March 2008

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Family
Horse and Carriage
03.26.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

Off the top of my head I can’t recall if I ever saw any of Richard Widmark’s films, and don’t feel like checking at IMDB. However, anyone like this deserves applause: In reality, the screen’s most vicious psychopath was a mild-mannered former teacher who had married his college sweetheart, the actress Jean Hazelwood, and who told […]
Games, General
Après les vacances
03.20.08 | Permalink | Comment?

So, a productive at-home vacation is past. We have been living in our house for almost four years and this last week I finally got around to putting up the various odd pictures on the basement walls. Crookedly. After putting together some storage shelves, I needed to move a shelf that I previously put up […]
Public Transportation Follies
Demographic Tension
03.05.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

There were a couple of loud-talkers on the bus ride home this evening. Just before Loud-talker One disembarked around 26th & Belmont, he mentioned to his interlocutor that he owned a house nearby. Loud-talker Two babbled loudly about what a great neighborhood that was (true). Number One replied (loudly), “Yeah, but gay as fuck.”
Books
No snarky title
03.04.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

The writer Tim Pratt has posted about his son River’s upcoming surgery. My thoughts are with them. How horrible for parents to go through something like this so soon in their child’s life (or ever, obviously). The odds in this case are good but meanwhile the strain is unimaginable to me. One weeps at how many […]