Yes, we're back in Positano, or we are still in Positano because Julia, our hostess, has an uncle who runs this restaurant, and th...

So we go for a walk along the Augstbord water pipe , a duct that exists since 1320 and distributes meltwater among the villages in the n...

Michael is working on the text side of a comic strip/graphic novel about Plato's Symposium . Yes, the philosopher, and, yes, the canoni...

Finally, folks, the second part of our true-true short story about the visit of our friends from Australia. A third (and last part) will fol...

(Pedro Palanca died yesterday from HIV-related liver complications --- we posted this only 10 days ago:) "Drinking men," Pe...

Andrew Sullivan found this for us here :  Indeed, we still have available the bar tab from a 1787 farewell party in Philadelphia for Geo...

We also do art, right? So, that's the excuse: That's not the art, that's just the unfinished bathroom We're sitting ...

We've arrived safely in Thailand, but are now holed up in the bedroom, since Chang ( ช้าง ) ("elephant") canceled the a/c in t...

What's this? Yes, it's the consequence of our Priority Pass , the black card that granted us access to the Swiss VIP lounge of...

(We performed it on Christmas eve 1985 during our visiting stint at the Rockefeller College, SUNY, Albany to rave reviews from a disorient...

Hat tip: Andrew Sullivan

Another pleasant dinner evening chez Christine.

Saturday night. The wind howls around the house, the timber creaks, the rain beats on the windows, the sea roars below. The doorbell ring...

Saturday night. The wind howls around the house, the timber creaks, the rain beats on the windows, the sea roars below. The doorbell ring...