Happy Birthday, George Clooney!

Inspired by the craze that's sweeping the blogosphere:Comment on this entry and I'll ( Read more... )

Oprah puts on a great, classy and (mostly) relevant show, and she's never less than elegant and dignified. Her topics are ahead of the trends, and she's genuinely interested in improving the lives of people from any walk of life ( Read more... )

So you've seen a bit of the world now. You've encountered people different from yourself, and perhaps even found that their cares could be yours. In the process, you've also discovered that the ways in which you once looked at life, and what you actually believed were the answers to The Big Questions, aren't adequate anymore ( Read more... )

Wore my birks today.

Leaf-blowers should be illegal.

Sam is now 6 months' old.

3:20 p.m. Must abandon present online pursuits to attend to the boy.

3:30 p.m. Sam goes down for a good, long nap. I take out the garbage and the trash and come back upstairs.

3:40 p.m. A knock on our neighbor's door. I peer through the keyhole and see a guy in a blue windbreaker wedge a flyer between the doorknob and the jam. He does the ( Read more... )

Yet another reason to love The Onion A.V. Club

First 4 episodes of HBO's John Adams

Last 3 of Pushing Daisies

Most recent 2 of LOST

Remaining 50-odd pages of spy-horror hybrid (and almost sneakily Catholic) Declare, the first Tim Powers I've read

National Book Award winner The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1, and Then We Came To The End, a bleakly comic ( Read more... )

Among the revelations of fatherhood is a new, deeper dimension to jealousy. Not only do I claim Sam as my son, with all the rights and responsibilities accorded a father, but I find myself bristling at every challenge- perceived or actual -to my influence on his life. Only Hannah has an equal claim on him ( Read more... )

...you're at work for two hours before you notice you have poop smeared across the back of your hand.