It is a gorgeous, cool, dry evening here in Massachusetts, and as a result my windows are opened wide, allowing the cooling breezes to pass through and refresh the house ( Read more... )

Although I don’t know exactly what I was expecting, my dinner with Merlina last night was something of a non-event, although I admit it is a novel experience when dinner at my favorite restaurant is the least interesting part of the evening.( Read more... )

Nearly two months have passed since I made the acquaintance of Merlina, the collie-loving, elderly dowager whom I met at my favorite local restaurant over Memorial Day weekend. Although we exchanged phone numbers, propriety seemed to require that I do nothing until I received further instructions from the Grand Dame ( Read more... )

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On Saturday I celebrated the upcoming long holiday weekend with dinner at one of my very favorite local restaurants, Le Lyonnais in Acton. Shortly after being seated at a table on the enclosed porch, an elderly woman was deposited at the table immediately to my right. Obviously well-heeled, adorned expansively in her dressed-to-the-nines burgundy ( Read more... )

Poetry from Spam Subject Emails

The spark will appear again!

Just show your cartier watch

With a big stick you will be the king of the beach

Be dirty and hot

How do you feel?

Falter

Dreaming of better love

At 2:45 a.m. last night (actually, very early this morning), while I was in the midst of a deep sleep, someone frantically rang my front doorbell multiple times while simultaneously pounding savagely on the door and on the side of the house. After peeling myself off of the ceiling, I rushed half naked down the hall, caroming off a wall or two, in a ( Read more... )

1. First Broadway Show: Sweeney Todd

2. Favorite musicals: Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George

3. Favorite Play: Angels in America: Perestroika, Six Characters in Search of an Author

4. Last show you saw: Take Me Out

5. Show you have seen more times than any other: Les Misérables

6. "Flop" you love: Side Show (it wasn't exactly ( Read more... )

I decided to take myself out tonight for another dinner at a restaurant that David and I used to frequent fairly often, a lovely French establishment called Le Lyonnais. Although it is about a half hour's drive in nearby Acton Massachusetts, I didn't mind the short commute -- it is a clear, calm, starry evening, with Orion hanging large and lusty, ( Read more... )

Well, it's official… I have finally reassembled myself into the Christmas Curmudgeon ( Read more... )