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Quote of the Day 1 Dec 2012 | 07:59 pm
More like Quote of the Year, since I haven't posted since January. (Curse you, Facebook & Twitter!) "Men don't seem to notice unless there's a breast hanging out! But the fact that they look at our f...
Before "Downton Abbey"...There was SNOBS 13 Jan 2012 | 03:30 am
Photo of Julian Fellowes © Giles Keyte I still remember the day in late 2004 that an unexpected package arrived from St. Martin's Press. Inside was an advanced reading copy of SNOBS, the debut novel ...
Yahrzeit - Ahead & Behind theTimes 1 Dec 2011 | 10:20 am
My father died 17 years ago today. November 30 is also Mark Twain's birthday. I imagine Dad would have liked to be linked to Twain, however tenuously. Funny... I just now remembered that I read THE IN...
Another Piece of History 7 Sep 2011 | 09:45 am
My latest acquisition (above) is an AP Wirephoto of my father from 1953. Caption: NEW YORK, May 6--Rep. Harold Velde, left, (R-Ill. chairman of the House Unamerican Activities Committee, points a war...
Summer Reading Assignment for Obama & Congress 19 Aug 2011 | 10:02 am
To the legislators of 2011 and most especially the candidates of 2012, I offer this excerpt from Charles Dickens's LITTLE DORRIT: Containing the whole Science of Government Whatever was required to ...
Back to Mr. Dickens 8 Aug 2011 | 09:11 am
I kept thinking how much the US Congress dickering over the debt ceiling is just like Dickens's Circumlocution Office, with all the talk of why "it can't be done." So I put aside Susan Isaacs's LILY W...
Strange & Beautiful: Kevin Wilson & THE FAMILY FANG 6 Aug 2011 | 02:26 am
The Family Fang, Kevin Wilson’s debut novel from Ecco Press, opens with: Mr. and Mrs. Fang called it art. Their children called it mischief. "You make a mess and then you walk away from it," their dau...
Quote for the Day...and all time 4 May 2011 | 02:13 am
"No corrupt mind ever understands words healthily." --THE DECAMERON (c1350), Giovanni Boccaccio
A New May Day 2 May 2011 | 02:39 am
The view from my back fence this morning. At a Denver riding club on May 1, 2006, Gomez the Thoroughbred threw me into a steel-pipe fence. My first-ever helicopter ride brought me to Swedish Hospital...
Guffaw of the Day OR Hypocritic Oaf 10 Mar 2011 | 11:59 am
I laughed out loud when I saw this AP headline: Gingrich: Love of country contributed to affair LOVE the lede: Newt Gingrich says his passion for his country contributed to his marital infidelity. ...
