In honor of St. Urho’s Day, which is Friday, I’d like to send you all a card. I’ve had St. Urho in mind this spring, since our weather is so far proving ideal for the propagation of locusts. I hate the little buggers flying about and eating every leaf in sight, and will do my […]

As I’ve been driving about the state, I have been enjoying an audio book of Gore Vidal’s latest memoir, Point to Point Navigation, as read by Vidal himself. I admire much of Vidal’s fiction— not so much the historical bestsellers like Burr and Lincoln, where he’s so busy trying to shock us with the behavior […]

More pics from our surprise carpet show. The shiny ones are silk. The one Melinda Snodgrass is fondling is a vision of paradise, with animals, trees, fountains, and one very happy guy.

Expository Lumps, Part VII: Just say it. So how often have you seen this scene in bad movies: the villain has captured the hero, and (before dismembering him with a laser or chucking him into the piranha tank) proudly boasts of his accomplishments and plans. And then of course the hero escapes, and uses his […]