We met Maud in the street the other day, and she, normally a serene neighbor with a charmingly stand-offish approach to local gossip, she wa...

The many little Nazis of Germany tended to ask rhetorically "Wenn nur der Führer das wüsste," (if the führer (Hitler) would onl...

Salvador Dali: The temptation of St.Anthony (Like the last post on this...)...not exactly a hand sheet either, but we couldn't hel...

...and repost our piece about his 18th sonnet: (So, it starts:) Since we are a literature blog now, we have to do serious stuff, like po...

(Just a new picture from Jezza:) ( Click here for Jezza's website )

Upfront update: This is really getting embarrassing folks---we're getting so many hits for this post, possibly because people think: ...

( Click here for Jezza's website )

University of California, Berkeley---market stand near the entrance So we're visiting Berkeley across the bay and in particular ...

Not really a handsheet, but anyhow: We haven't seriously researched this, but writing style is not different from finger prints or iri...

( Bobby Jones )

Apologies, apologies, this has nothing to do with the Green Eyes , except that we played Monopoly once, with Sacha, the model for Jack Horn ...

While Chang and I were strolling through San Francisco yesterday, the conversation turned to the peculiarities of the street layout here, ea...

(Recent paintings by George W. Bush)

(I listened to this, in Horowitz's interpretation, perhaps 500 times, so there you have it. My Horowitz was a studio recording; this...

More from Redwooood Country north of the Bay Area where we are staying during the weekend, thanks to an invite of Karen, our landlady in Sa...

We rearranged the furniture at Karen's cabin a bit.

À la recherche du temps perdu...along those lines: how does one manage to arrive in San Francisco? We apparently can't make it stick. So...

Harvey Milk, former (and assasinated) gay mayor of San Francisco (Another picture from the superb artist Tony de Carlo , whom we discov...

Tony de Carlo : "Bird Man Of The Desert", 18" x 24", Acrylic on Canvas, 2006 (We discovered another superb gay arti...