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Chelsea 26 Aug 2013 | 06:58 am
Chelsea. Chelsea Manning, Chelsea Manning, Chelsea Manning. There you go: I already typed it three times. Why ever should someone in the employ of the Christian Science Monitor, my touchstone news sou...
Never Toss Me A Dare 21 Aug 2013 | 09:05 pm
Back when I was first polling the neighborhood about plans to rebuild my porch (waiting for the builder to call any day now), fans of zoning may recall that one of my more excitable neighbors, from wh...
Strix Varia, or, Owl Does Not Like Dogs 20 Aug 2013 | 08:37 am
We were returning from downtown with a hatch full of discounted fancy booze — yes, this is one of the things I will do with a vacation day — when I remembered that if you cut westward from Chain Bridg...
Vacation, or, Reality Check 17 Aug 2013 | 02:49 am
Every now and then one of my clients blarps: “I guess this is a really nice job, you get to make your own hours.” I do what I do because — well, not exactly because I love it, although that can be tr...
Serendipity, or, Art On The Fly 14 Aug 2013 | 07:42 am
I was only looking for a picture of a woman in a hat, for use in another matter, and one of the images that popped up led me to an exhibition that closed last year of a Scots artist named Fergusson, w...
The Twilight Zone 10 Aug 2013 | 07:09 am
No, I have not been trapped there, but it has been chasing me. The three-month long journey in pursuit of permission to repair my front porch entered the home stretch last night. Anyone would think I...
The Battle For Hearts And Minds 1 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
We had Malala Day, and now this, which I think is freakin’ awesome. http://www.burkaavenger.com/ People can burn books, and bomb schools, but as anyone who has had to compete with them for attention...
P*ss On It, From A Considerable Height 26 Jul 2013 | 06:48 pm
I have been taking a walk down Memory Lane, and it needs a good streetsweeper. I am not sure what made me decide it was time to purge and rebox all the files on the shelves of the music room, which ha...
Thomasina And Jerry 22 Jul 2013 | 07:51 am
So another mouse got in. We first noted the circumstance on Thursday night. That’s the night I usually see the Cute Engineer for dinner, it being client free, and young Miss Agatha was conspicuous by...
Billets Douces 19 Jul 2013 | 11:41 pm
This was just thrown in my front door — not in the entry; whoever delivered it actually opened my storm door and front door, which I had left ajar for an impending client. Even the people who leave me...
