On Saturday night I hoofed it up to Livingston to meet up with Mattie. We had sushi in Montclair, chatted, got chai and cocoa and pastry goods. Fun thing is Saturday was when it was announced, even by Fox News, that Joe Biden was the President Elect of the 2020 election. Tons of people were on streetcorners cheering, many motorists were beeping ( Read more... )

One convention in these here United States concerns people identifying as hyphenated Americans. Sometimes to the point their nostalgia for their grandparents's land appears to supercede their American patriotism.

And it's completely okay on a social level.

Esperanto is an auxiliary language with the goal of facilitating communication between people ( Read more... )

Amy Butcher has an interesting post over at LitHub entitled "MIA: The Liberal Men We Love". Basically she's wondering where all the liberal men are with He-Who-Is-Not-To-Be-Named's ascendancy to power.

White, progressive, and liberal males feel like they're disinvited to the party when it comes to resisting the current regime. Us liberal, white, ( Read more... )

Not so much a dream but a brief scene.

I was in the audience for one of his speeches. He's gesticulating when I notice he has a black strip of tape on his right hand.

Later I ask if my wife is still taping her planar wart then mention Bernie's doing the same thing on his right hand.

Here's what hit me ( Read more... )

My part-time job is with a new, small lawn care company at the shore. To drum up business, we hire high school kids as door knockers to see if someone needs fertilizer and weed control ( Read more... )

I have been dreaming, but they're long, involved, and really aren't surviving the rigors of waking ( Read more... )

Today started out as a good day ( Read more... )

Back in 1997 or 1998, I went to South Carolina with malyss so she could retrieve items she forgot down south when she moved back north. Our hotel was relatively new and well-appointed, but the tub's water looked brownish-yellow as I was filling it. We complained, some superintendant came up and said the water was clean but the lighting was giving it the ( Read more... )

Since last night, I've decided I'm going to be okay if the strangeness around KIC 8462852 (a.k.a. Tabby's Star) turns out to be an oddity in interstellar space or something a bit more prosaic ( Read more... )