Honestly, I forget how to do this, if I let months and months pass between entries. It used to be easy and almost automatic to post a few times a week, though I never approached doing it daily or more than that. Now it almost never occurs to me, or when it does, it feels like a huge slog, to write. I don't know why. I still write a lot, and ( Read more... )

This is a topic? I guess none of these is really much of a topic, and it's not like I've written any undying prose on the topics offered me, either. If that is what I set out to do with this meme (and I don't think it is) then I have failed miserably ( Read more... )

The second is the random topic; the first is what was crossing my mind. If Diwali/Deepavali is November 13-17th this year, why are all the Bay Area Diwali melas already over AS OF TODAY? WTF? That's not fair. Even though I feel like Whitey McWhite attending one, I can in some years get past that feeling, and enjoy wandering the food booths/ ( Read more... )

Well, I am not really planning to take any pictures today, so that would be an easy topic. However, I'll put up some old family photos that I scanned yesterday instead, some from the Olden Days, some from my babyhood ( Read more... )

Here she is, queen of all she surveys, aka taking a bath on my bed:


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This is an old jukebox in an ice cream parlor in East Troy, Wisconsin. The ice cream parlor is kind of a faux mélange of antiques, decorated largely by buying out the stock of three drugstores that went under in the 60s or 70s or something. So there are cabinets with Lydia Pinkham's pills and Necco wafers jostling black cat gum and Gold Dust ( Read more... )

Huh. With that much freedom, I don't even know what I want to write. I am listening to random music on iTunes -- I have 7,390 songs to choose from. Well, some of them -- like, more than 60, each an hour long -- are actually marxist political history lectures by Harvey Goldberg recorded in the early 70s at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ( Read more... )

I feel like I am posting everything I have even vaguely thought of all summer. This one will be a continuation of family history photos. The next one will be on Hindi and matters subcontinental, cultural and otherwise ( Read more... )