endling

it's a regular thing, this citation to that sweet prince lyric, to the point one struggles to recall which aprils showed no snow ( Read more... )

i took a look at a video of a tour of bernie sanders' home guided by his wife, jane. she shows us a statute she has of don quixote.

the author of the accompanying article states: "jane asks that i not write about it as a metaphor."


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so this is the story. i had never heard of a birkensnake, still do not know its taxonomy (squamata, surely, but from there, whence?). but then i learned that a couple of my friends had been published in birkensnake 6. a birkensake 6, i should say, because there are 7. and i find the next bit put best by the managing editors at their website ( Read more... )

i didn't think about it at the time, didn't anticipate that there was a wiki page just for the person, when the other day i recommended that the best work of adams' to read, if you were to read only one, is dirk gently's holistic detective agency, that one of its many virtues is that (and this does not spoil the story at all, this could be on the ( Read more... )

ike aronowitz, then 85, who had been captain of the exodus 1947, sits across from ruth gruber, then 96, at his home in israel (he remained, definitively, a man of the sea, building himself a large white house in the shape of a ship's prow overlooking the mediterranean). they've been talking, but there's a pause while she signs a copy of her latest ( Read more... )

honestly, i feel a great disinclination toward writing entries that attempt to say something, preferring rather to point the reader to someone who's said or done something interesting. to be a critic rather than a creator (they used to say "those who can't do, teach", the insulting implications of which my many friends in that business may take ( Read more... )