George W. Bush and I agree: Get well soon, Roger Ebert! Today Cody's on Telegraph closes. Joe sent me some pictures from the memorial service. Goodbye, old shop. In memory, via a book blog, some …
I have to get this document scanned. Instead of dealing with the stupid scanner software, I'll just use our fax machine to fax it to ourselves, since any fax to our number gets turned into …
The most intellectually stimulating part of Jesus is Magic (that's not saying much) is now available on YouTube: Silverman's song "Jewish People Driving German Cars". Also on YouTube: videos from Square One TV, specifically Mathnet. …
More melancholy. I can glean no pleasure at all from memories of indiscretions that were fun at the time. I made wince-worthy mistakes with booze, boys and writing. Yes, writing. A moment of bombastic self-indulgence …
I watched the overtime and the penalty kicks at a crowded cafe near my house, where the crowd ran very pro-Italian but gave good sporting cheers to French goals too. The pro-Italian folks celebrated for …
Today some del.icio.us poking-around led me back to the Voyager. Would you rather be a girl named Adah or a boy named Adan? A boy named Carmine or a girl named Princess? A boy named …
"A hope that we can live with one another in a way that reconciles the beliefs of each with the good of all." From a speech that I he wrote specifically for me, it seems.
Do you know anyone to nominate for ICANN? As long as they're not villains.
Things I sort of wanted to do today: work on an essay, start reading The Baroque Cycle, rewrite a humorous play about Indian-Americans that my sister and I wrote ten years ago. In fact, I've …
When your religion is someone else's tourist attraction. I once told my mother that I was becoming a Buddhist and renouncing worldly things. This was fine with her until I declared that this also applied …
