Lloyd Alexander:

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This is truth: getting to the Adirondacks, we passed through 1999: PICTURE.

And then, we ended up here, in the ice age. Seriously, it is frigid here, by the standards of my current blood at least. Come winter (which is not a request), this will of course feel like July, rather than November.

Also: Have you ever tried to read a book while there is a ( Read more... )

If you like to take the sum total of creation, sort it on an arbitrarily value, and slice a line through it at an arbitrary point-and who doesn't-here's one for you. There are two kinds of creating people in the world. Steven Spielberg, and Michael Curtiz.

Who is Michael Curtiz, I hear you those of you who refuse to click links asking. An Oscar- ( Read more... )

I like to think I'll make an excellent father.

Not right now, of course. I'm a bit low in the way of cash-flow to start buying diapers and paying down a mortgage, much less saving for college tuition. And money aside, I'm hardly emotionally ready for having a kid. Fortunately barring some sort of unplanned adoption, I'm probably in the clear, given ( Read more... )