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Hey, is this cool or what? I’m sitting on my couch in the living room, updating my weblog. Thanks to the miracle of structured wiring, I was able to run some Cat5e cable from the guest room where the computer (and more importantly the router) is, through the closets into the basement and up through…
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An incomplete history of Borders Classics Reading Group: Back in the early 90’s, Borders opened on Route 9 in Framingham, which might have been the first store in the Boston area, moving into an old building next to the old Shoppers World. Prior to Borders coming to town, the bookstores in the area consisted of…
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Here’s Laura’s summary of last night’s reading group: We then moved on to this month’s book, “The Street of Crocodiles” by Bruno Schulz. Opinions on this book ran the gamut of “loved it” to “hated it” with almost every shade in between also represented. Those who loved or liked it found it richly imaginative, original,…
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I miss reading the newsgroups, I’m less in touch with what’s going on in the world of comics, drwho, etc. I go yesterday to assemble my list of comics to buy this week and noticed that four comics that shouldn’t be $2.99, namely Black Panther, Exiles, Thor and Iron Man, are $2.99. Come to find…
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If there’s anything around here that can push the war out of the headlines, it’s the weather. Here it is April 8 and we have a couple of inches of new snow on the ground, with the threat of more tomorrow. This winter has been way too long and too cold from the get-go, and…
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Had a busy weekend, went to the movies twice in two days, something we haven’t done at least since 1995, and saw “Spirited Away” and “Chicago”. Wanted to see “The Pianist” but it was sold out by the time we got there. “Spirited Away” was my first anime on the big screen (not counting the…
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Now that the war has been going on for a couple of weeks I should probably give an update. I was surfing over to Patrick Nielsen Hayden’s archliberal weblog yesterday, which I don’t read very often, but it was full of reportage of righteous left-wing indignation about the war in general and every little thing…
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I’ve been reading the anthology “Mars Probes” over the past couple of weeks and found a decent number of entertaining stories in it. Mars, due to its proximity to Earth and the whole canals thing, has always had a certain mystique, and it was interesting how many authors chose to bypass the cold, hard realities…
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Went to Boston Lyric last night to see the latest offering in their “Season of BonBons” or whatever its called, “La Rondine”. Much has been made of how weird an opera this is, and I have to say the prevailing wisdom is correct, there’s not much to sink your teeth into here. After Magda’s first…
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I should eulogize Uncle Pat, who died Saturday after a protracted fight with cancer. Pat was the funny uncle, always doing impressions (Johnny Carson, Willie Nelson, Jimmy Carter, Grandpa Bartlett, etc.), always carried around in his wallet something that he would introduce as “my pride and joy”, then reveal as a picture of a bottle…