Now (Chang's sister in the left foreground, green jacket) you

You've made it, you're wealthy now, and preferably American, because Americans are more likely to do it than other mortals. You'...

(0.5 million page views in one week. 10k likes. Where could that be?) Adrift from Simon Christen on Vimeo . Yes, it's ...

Cathy Ulrich writes on her famous blog Hollywood hates me : This morning, I saw a baby llama. At first, I was going to gloat about it, a...

The Mercedes ML 270 CDI Yes, we're doing some maintenance work on the house, a friend of Chang was flown in from Korea to help us....

We've been discussing this with Glenn and others since a while: the American Right, we argued, is still fighting the issues of the 1861 ...

You've probably seen this, on Amazon, the opening lines of a book description, next to the image of the book cover with a Read more lin...

And while we are at it, here's a fitting fragment from the Green Eyes , Ch. 27: I'll charge 100 dollars but am willing to ne...

A tiny reptile (I think it's a salamander, not a lizard (Jacki, what's your take on this?)) on the inside of the widow pane of th...

The view yesterday, Oct 8, around 7 PM (The rental season is finally over; we moved back into the house yesterday)

This chainmail joke has made the rounds at least three times --- that's the number of times we received it, Maud was the last to send it...

From Lokfire's brilliant site Hollywood hates me , here's another reblog: Lately, I've noticed a local business has a sign on...

Previously , George W. Bush has retired, and a change of heart. Events ensue, involving John Yoo , professor at Berkeley law school and auth...

Not a walking stick (around 15:30 today) Update: we sent the link of this post to a few friends with a mistaken allsion to walking stic...

The book “Behind the candelabra: My life with Liberace” appeared in 1988 and had a good title and a co-author. The movie-idea came to Steven...

..is the title of a new book by Mark Leibovitch, chief correspondent of the NYT Magazine, about Washington DC.  Welcome to the land of no...

The view on August 8, around 10:30 AM

"Just sayin'!" (This is not Michael, OK. He was roaming sites for gay cruises and came across this picture. By the way, h...