Leonard loved this analogy, so maybe you will, too: Giving humorists Pulitzers for their serious work (cf. Dave Barry, who received a Pulitzer for his column on his mother's suicide) is like the habit of …
Oh, pooh, divorce lawyers are suffering since September 11th. With all the magnanimity in the air, divorce lawyers are seeing an unmistakable drop in business. Christian Scranton, owner of Divorce Legal Services in Marin County, …
I just listened to "To the Best of Our Knowledge" on public radio. It's a bunch of interviews and stories about memory, this time. Alzheimers, the phenomenon of songs that get stuck in one's head, …
Leonard: So I heard this joke about the situation in Afghanistan. Now that the war's basically over, the French have decided to send in troops. Me: Ha ha ha! Leonard: That's not the joke. Me: …
I did, in fact, go to bed around 3:40. I stayed up for a tiny bit reading The One Best Way. I really like Kanigel's method, though he gets repetitive in talking about young Taylor's …
Yes, it's 2:30 in the morning. I just rearranged a bunch of furniture -- and I'm not done yet -- and I still have to clean up the mess I've made. So be it. It …
Le Guin reads Jon Carroll and called Carroll's column today a terrific example of politically aware speculative fiction.
Thanks to Jeana, I attended a lecture by Ursula K. Le Guin today and even spoke with her a tiny bit. She seemed very happy that I'd had such a great experience teaching her book. …
I have been thinking for quite a while about the ways in which different technologies lead people to communicate in different ways. Joel Spolsky points out that -- for example -- when a message board …
