It looks like Livejournal and Facebook are still refusing to play nice.

Time to ask this question on all my blogs: What are your favorite premises for episodes or story arcs in fiction/TV/movies/what have you?

In the 1976/'77 scholastic year, I was a C student.  Except for my two worst subjects: Handwriting and Art, in which I was a D student.

Sagittarius Horoscope for week of January 7, 2016
A bottle of Chateau Cheval Blanc wine from 1947 sold for $304,000. Three bottles of Chateau Lafite-Rothschild 1869 went for $233,000 apiece. The mystique about aged wine provokes crazy behavior like that. But here's a more mundane fact: Most wine deteriorates with age, and should be sold within a few ( Read more... )

Sagittarius Horoscope for week of May 28, 2015
Petrarch was an influential 14th-century Italian poet whose main work was Song Book. It's a collection of 366 poems, most of which are dedicated to Laura, the woman he loved. For 40 years he churned out testaments of longing and appreciation for her, despite the fact that he and she never spent time ( Read more... )

Sagittarius Horoscope for week of April 9, 2015
The English term "engine" refers primarily to a machine that transforms energy into mechanical power. But its roots are in the Old French word engin, which meant skill or wit, and in the Latin word ingenium, defined as "inborn talent." I'd like to borrow the original meanings to devise your horoscope ( Read more... )

Sagittarius Horoscope for week of February 19, 2015
In Herman Melville's short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener," a lawyer hires a man named Bartleby to work in his office. At first Bartleby is a model employee, carrying out his assignments with dogged skill. But one day everything begins to change. Whenever his boss instructs him to do a specific ( Read more... )

Sagittarius Horoscope for week of January 22, 2015

Italian composer Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) didn't like to work hard, and yet he was also prolific. In fact, his desire to avoid strenuous exertion was an important factor in his abundant output. He got things done fast. His most famous opera, The Barber of Seville, took him just 13 days to ( Read more... )

Sagittarius Horoscope for week of January 15, 2015
In 1939, author Ernest Vincent Wright finished Gadsby, a 50,000-word novel. It was unlike any book ever published because the letter "e" didn't appear once in the text. Can you imagine the constraint he had to muster to accomplish such an odd feat? In accordance with the astrological omens, I invite ( Read more... )

Not much in the world I feel like posting about, so this is an archived picture from Tampa Bay Online/The Tampa Tribune of the ship Jose Gasparilla at the Gasparilla Invasion.


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