When last we entered my study to see what the Technomantically Prescient Bookshelves.... OF DOOOOM!!!! would manifest to me as "need to re-read, right now" offerings, I wanted a memoir, but my shelves outvoted me.

This time, they cooperated. They pushed out Craig Ferguson's AMERICAN ON PURPOSE, and it was the absolutely right thing to re-read ( Read more... )

The seemingly old man coughed as he emerged from his nest of piled-up newspapers and scavenged cardboard under the rotting footbridge. He blinked in vexation at watery sunlight stabbing painfully into his rheumy eyes. He hitched one shoulder higher than the other as he straightened from a crouch to what passed for a standing position ( Read more... )

It's not quite prescience, you see. But it's pretty close, and uncanny when it happens ( Read more... )

Our grins are rueful rictuses.

"At least it's a friendly hostility ( Read more... )

Snapshots from my life.

* I will show you fear in a handful of water.


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Regular non-Idol posts will continue here.