Fairly Ood

There are seventy-nine photos on flickr.com tagged with the term Slitheen. There are, however, one hundred fifty-four tagged with the term Ood, though some of them seem to be odd, not Ood.
Search for Dalek, though, and you get six thousand, four hundred sixty-six results.
Why this seemed notable to me, I don’t know. Chalk it up [...]

Something to stick with

This weekend I finally bought a yoga mat. I’ve been taking classes at the gym all summer now, and I’ve been using the mats they have available there. Most of the regulars, I noticed, bring their own mats. During Sunday morning’s class, when I was in downward facing dog for the umpteenth time and watching [...]

Hygiene non sequitur

People continue to baffle and amaze me.
Take, for instance, the gentleman (I use the term loosely) at the gym this morning. After slogging through time on the elliptical and running half-way up the Empire State Building on the stair stepper, I sat in the sauna for a bit (because, after all that, of course [...]

Hurricane Dakota, or Let the sun shine in

I never would have realized one dog could do so much damage.
Friday afternoon, it seems, the battery in one of the smoke alarms at home started to run down. Actually, I suppose it started running down long before that, because on Friday it was emitting the telltale chirp that smoke alarms emit to let you [...]

“But you have the ballerina fluid”

Everybody, indeed, is juicy inside. Whoever this impossibly perky girl is, I love her. (Brought to my attention by my friend Jay.)

Riddle me this

This morning, on the back of an impossibly large car that might do double duty as an aircraft carrier, I saw a bumper sticker that read, “God is Pro-Life.”
If God is pro-life, then why does everything die?

Dialogue from a lunch, or Everything counts in large amounts

“Do you want to know how much I used to make in my last full-time job and how much I’m making now?” I asked her.
I have no problem talking about money; I know the general wisdom says that it’s rude, but I think it’s more impolite to talk about Paris Hilton’s (lack of) oral [...]

What did I learn from my summer vacation from the Internet?

Well, I’ll tell you.

I am so easily distracted it’s not funny.
Reading Anna Karenina gives me a marvelous sense of accomplishment. Since the chapters are about three or four pages long, it’s simplicity itself to breeze through five or six in one half-hour sitting.
I may not have written as much as I would have liked, but [...]

Stepping away from the crack pipe

Last week, I read an article in Poets & Writers by a writer who spent a month offline. He didn’t use the Web, he didn’t check e-mail, he didn’t use IM. (He didn’t even use his computer—he bought an word processor.) I thought that was a great idea—and proceeded to go about doing other things. [...]

In today’s episode…

…the part of Judith Traherne will be played by Jeffrey Ricker.
OK, admittedly, I haven’t seen Dark Victory. I did, however, see the remake with Samantha Stevens—er, Elizabeth Montgomery—many many years ago. (Like “before I was old enough to drive” years ago.) In short, I’ve had a headache for the past three days. No failing eyesight [...]