You may know this already. This is---in a minor sense at least---the end of the world. You may recall this 20 years from now---if you are st...

 This is a screen shot of an internet page of the New York Times of today (Feb 27, 2025): A great read? "Great Read"(!). Would tha...

So, here is our review of  Call Me by Your Name--- André Aciman's   book (from 2007), not the new movie made from it in 2017. Title...

We're (again) working on a review of "Call Me by Your Name," --- the novel of André Aciman from 2007, which was made ten years...

  ..."Schrödinger's dumpster." (Got it? Hint: "Schrödinger's cat")

Underneath you find a review by the Cambridge historian Christopher Clark  of  Angela Merkel's autobiography (Merkel, the emeritus Germa...

Of Elon Musk, of course---the most hated man on the planet.  And who is defending him? A senator Kennedy---John Kennedy---who's not part...

Developmental Milestones of Your Elon Musk By Cora Frazier, February 3, 2025 The way your Elon Musk plays, moves, and communicates offers ...

We've been quiet for quite a while, for different reasons, but here we are again---and with a controversial subject, as usual: The 199 M...

    We have been at this for a while.  Here, for example, in a blog post from 2011:   "Let me explain." That was the post , ...

The guy below right is little Michael, fourteen years ago, at the Monaco Grand Prix, which he attended upon an invitation of Glenn, his myst...

 

  This is the end of our dead-end-road at the end of the day. Picture by Chang, of course.

Huh? Caspar David Friedrich , the German romantic painter (1774-1840) (?)  A picture of our garden (?): The garden of Michael Ampersant and ...

 

 

Yes, one wonders. Successful? Isn't he one of the most despised men on the planet? Overpaying for Twitter big time, then destroying empl...

 Here's the proof, picture taken from a bathroom window:    

  Picture taken by Chang

 ...to paint our garden? No, it was Chang who took this picture through the kitchen window.  Rain, finally rain. We never get enough of it d...