As much as I enjoyed slothing off during the week between Christmas and New Year’s, it didn’t do too much to ameliorate the let-down feeling that descended Boxing Day. Reading Perseopolis, however, quickly put a stop to my moping: there’s nothing like immersing oneself in the story of someone who, as a child, endured political […]

“We apes are magnificent, noble creatures and your president is . . . a doorknob.”

Looks like the Strindberg and Helium folks like the knitted Helium I made for Ezra. I drove poor Doug crazy while I was making it, because I kept snickering, obssessing over finding the right size googly eyes, etc.
Helium is basically Jess Hutchinson’s Spherey pattern, only instead of arms and legs I grafted on little flippers […]

During the holiday hullabaloo, I decided to try starting Three Junes again after having given up on it more than a year ago. Surprisingly, I found myself drawn into the story after only a few pages.
The novel portrays the McLeods, a Scottish family, via three overlapping narratives. The first focuses on Paul McLeod, a newspaper […]

Me: So, what would you like to do today?
Him: I don’t know. I need to go to the bank, but that’s about it. What do you want to do? Watch some “Lost”? Overthrow a South American government?
Me: “Lost” sound okay. But I don’t feel the need to overthrow any South American governments today.
Him: Well, you’ll […]