A non-fic post: Several of you have been kind enough to email or text and ask how I'm faring in the hurricane. The short answer is that I am well out of range, i.e., still in Scotland. Though I'm obviously concerned about my house, everything I've read from my local friends and the news there suggests that it ought to be fine. Supposedly I am going ( Read more... )

-- you know you are no longer truly a city dweller when you come home to find an enormous possum under your house ( Read more... )

Me: Here I am in New Orleans! Howdy howdy howdy ( Read more... )