Sagittarius Horoscope for week of June 14, 2012Nineteenth-century Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev once called his fellow novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky a "pimple on the face of literature." But more than a hundred years after that crude dismissal, Dostoyevsky is a much more highly regarded and influential writer than Turgenev. Use this as inspiration, ( Read more... )

Sagittarius Horoscope for week of November 10, 2011 In Mongolia there's a famous fossil of two dinosaurs locked in mortal combat. Forever frozen in time, a Velociraptor is clawing a Protoceratops, which in turn is biting its enemy's arm. They've been holding that pose now for, oh, 80 million years or so. I'm shoving this image in your face, ( Read more... )

Somehow a spammer sent a message using my address and my Contact List. I don't know how it happened, or who to complain to. Grr.

My apologies to anyone who received the spam message.

PS: A somewhat silver lining...found out which entries of my Contact List were obsolete and cleaned them out. *shrug*

On this weekend devoted to consumerism and gluttony wrapped in a veneer of family-based sentimentality, I'm trying to look beyond to the consequences. Last night, the PBS World channel showed an episode of Independent Lens called "Objectified", about industrial design and its challenges. One of the important points from that program is the fact ( Read more... )