Monthly Archives: September 2002

Blissfully Bitter no longer links me. She got a new site and left my URL off her new sidebar. Sigh. I remember the early days, she linked me, I bookmarked her… I guess ultimately it’s my fault. I never fully … Continue reading →

This morning Heidi and I are going downtown to read and sign documents attesting to our willingness and readiness to adopt Petunia. It’s like a house closing — initial here, sign there — except a house isn’t gonna want you … Continue reading →

Heidi was talking to me this weekend about the Deaconate program, why she thinks I would be good, and also why she thinks it would be hard on us as a couple. And that got me thinking, which is always … Continue reading →

I’ve seen the season premiers of both CSI and CSI: Miami. Las Vegas is the better show hands down. But hey, the Miami one is at least true to the CSI formula, which is what makes it a winner. It’s … Continue reading →

On a whim the other day, I bought a jar of Wheat Nuts. Yeah, I just had this vague yearning for some pressed wheat germ. Yum. Not bad tasing. Nice and nutty. Still just as much fat as reqular nuts. … Continue reading →

Back to Merton. Again. It could take me years to get through this slim book. It’s like ==> read a paragraph, think for a week. In his eighth chapter on Integrity, he nails dead-on a spiritual conundrum that I have … Continue reading →

I am not a knee-jerk reciprocal linker — in fact many of my sidebar links are to Daily Reads who have no idea I exist — but I added a link to Redwood Dragon after he linked me. He wrote … Continue reading →

Where were you on the night of July 17th? I have no idea where I was. But Moby was laying in a hotel room just down the road from me. Whaddaya know? And apparently, he enjoyed NASA.

Eliot Wilder wrote an article on what Kay Hanley’s up to these days. If you liked the band Letters to Cleo or wondered who supplied Tara Reid’s singing voice in Josey and the Pussycats, you might be interested. I think … Continue reading →

I’ve been rethinking my whole position on Karma lately.I used to think Karma was some mystical claptrap about fate and reincarnation, but, from what I’ve read, it seems like a sensible idea. My actions come back to me. Cause and … Continue reading →

I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils,Neat in their boxes, dolor of pad and paper-weight,All the misery of manila folders and mucilage,Desolation in immaculate public places,Lonely reception room, lavatory, switchboard,The unalterable pathos of basin and pitcher,Ritual of multigraph, paper-clip, … Continue reading →

He’d spent his life trying to control the names people gave him;oh the unfair and the accurate equally hurt. Just recently he’d been a son-of-a-bitch and sweetheart in the same day,and once again knew what antonyms love and control are, … Continue reading →

A bunch of proprietary ethnographic anthropologists analyze the average American a year aftrer 9/11 and have produced an extraordinarily interesting report. We just think we’ve gone back to normal — working, playing, loving, running errands — but these guys are … Continue reading →

The New York Times has an article listing the 10 most beautiful scientific experiments. And they’re pretty much ones you can do with regular equipment — Double sits, pendulums, prisms, and inclined planes yield the most beautiful science. As a … Continue reading →

I’m blogging from Kaveh Kanes this morning. Yes I can procrastinate and avoid doing real work from just about anywhere. I’m talented like that. I took my in-laws to St. Joseph’s this morning as my MIL is going through an … Continue reading →