This post is primarily targeted to my pal “Iron” Doug Hern, who is having his 127th1 birthday today.
This is a recording of Leonard Cohen doing a reading/performance at the 92nd Street YM-YWHA (yes, that’s the “The Young Men’s-Young Women’s Hebrew Association”) Hotel in New York City, New York on 14 February 1966. It includes Cohen [...]
I am completely climbing the walls tonight.
I’ll explain why, but it will take a second, so either throw a pizza in the oven (hi Neil!) and settle down, or else skip along to the next entry.
Apparently this conversation (I’m reporting it second-hand, so the quotes might not be exact) occurred on my daughter’s drive in to the day care this morning.
Sarah: I don’t want to go to day care today.
Trish: It’s just for today and tomorrow and then you get to spend four more days at home. Think of it [...]
Should you be MALE or FEMALE?*created with QuizFarm.com
You scored as Female
Being mostly female by thought, a good thing in many ways: By definition it means that you are more creative, and sensitive towards your environment, enabling you to express yourself freely.
Female
54%
Male
46%
Either
39%
Neither
32%
(via Fred)
So, that might mean something… I don’t know. Aren’t internet quizzes the authoritative [...]
The expression “the worm turns”, commonly used (at least by me) to mean “the situation has changed and the previously disadvantaged party now holds the advantage”, is apparently an evolution of the old proverb, “Tread on a worm and it will turn.” The proverb was likely intended to say “even the lowliest creature will strike [...]
You know what steganography is, right? “Steganography is the art and science of writing hidden messages in such a way that no one apart from the sender and intended recipient even realizes there is a hidden message.”
Quite often these days this means encoding information into the insignificant bits of large binary files–changing the colour the [...]
When she was young, Joan Didion was quite the hottie.
Evidence:
Here’s wishing a hearty Merry Christmas to everyone who reads Homo Sum.
(The image above links to a wall-paper sized version. It’s from here originally.)
Most people acquire their beliefs through osmosis and observation, not investigation. We’d rather observe than derive. Raised in a society awash in certain ubiquitous beliefs, you tend to accept those beliefs without thinking. I think most people come to their faith in the same way they come to believe that not wearing a tie is [...]
There’s absolutely no theme here, just a bunch of stuff that caught my interest.
Why did I not know there was a new Grimjack comic being serialized to the web at ComicMix.com? There’s like 60 pages there already. I hope this is web-to-trade serialization. And look, there’s also a Jon Sable, and what’s this Bar Sinister?
The [...]
Who is more ethically advanced: a person who has a larger set of things for which they will kill, or for which they will die?
And do you put yourself in the more advanced bucket?
I know that the question can be rendered silly by what you put in the sets, but I’m talking in very general [...]
I read this today on one of the messageboards I frequent:
I just finished reading a book called ‘El Enigma de Paris‘ (don’t think you guys will have much trouble translating that) by Pablo de Santis.
I don’t know if it will ever be translated to English, but if you ever see it at the bookstore, it’s [...]
Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Billy Franks.
Boy, those lyrics are sharp.
I only had to be cut once to know how to bleed
I know why we tend to love most those who know
How to leave
and
Take my hand and let me tell you
All but my love will soon be gone
And the exit wound will be quick and clean
So [...]
I don’t know why it is1 but in the late part of December every year, I start to feel some sort of compulsion to read some Bukowski. (As an aside, my mental picture of Bukowski doesn’t match any of his photos–it’s Henry Chinaski.)
I read different stuff every year–Bukowski has a decent-sized oeuvre–but I always start [...]
Observed in the wild today, on a display table at Scholar’s Choice (yes, I was shopping for Christmas presents for my daughter):
I didn’t do it. Although it is exactly the sort of thing I would have done.
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