Category Archives: Notes

I totally meant to post an update from Paris, but Sophie and I had an incredibly hectic schedule of shopping for French office supplies. Oh, the notebooks! The folders with elasticized covers! The paper of non-US proportions! It was all … Continue reading →

We’ve established conclusively that Obama is one of the sexiest presidents ever, right? Right. Obviously. No question. So, in the hope that his spell extends beyond the US, and that it has coaxed the rest of the world into forgiving … Continue reading →

The assignment: sneak into a bookstore after hours and swap the Literary Fiction books with the Metaphysics/New Age section. The hypothesis: this will immediately cheer up the five listless souls who actually read LitFic’s postmodern puke. These days metaphysicians and … Continue reading →

The calendar thinks the first day of winter was a week ago, but actually it was yesterday. 23 degrees, windy, and lots of the white stuff for which Eskimo languages have 2000 words. As a result my accomplishments for the … Continue reading →

My bungalow has a working kitchen! Water runs through its plumbed veins, the refrigerator’s motor thrums, and the stove is plugged in, ready and waiting to cook up cauldrons of soup and sauce. Tonight there will be spaghetti! I was … Continue reading →

Glancing back through this blog I find it was September 26 when the remodeling began on my kitchen. Guess what, it still isn’t done, ha ha, joke’s on me for thinking it might ever finish. Progress has happened in fits … Continue reading →

“When the possible outstrips the actual, history arises,” says Stuart Kauffman in a fascinating post (Enablement and Radical Emergence) on a fascinating blog (NPR’s 13.7 Cosmos and Culture). Speaking of possibility, did you hear about how cops confiscated the generators … Continue reading →

From the OccupyMARINES website: “Marines support the movement. We will support demonstrators with organization, direction, supply and logistics, and leadership.” Call me a Jungian, but can you hear that chorus of Kings? These are not brainwashed soldiers. These are Warriors … Continue reading →

Wish I could credit the anonymous people who came up with these, painted them on old cardboard boxes, and held the cardboard up for news cameras: “I am very upset” “Don’t be a douche” “Bring back crystal pepsi!” “How about … Continue reading →