This afternoon, knowing the carpet would be vacuumed once our Christmas tree was packed away, I sprinkled some loose catnip in a sunbeam so our cat Tommy might play in it. For a while ran, rolled, sniffed and munched the fragrant herb, then he settled into a warm spot and slept. His sleek form was [...]
Call it a New Year’s resolution if you will, but I’m determined to feature one new thing I discover — either through meat space wandering or on the Web — every day of 2010. Today it’s a combination of the two.
From the time I was a boy sitting rapt-faced before Roy Rogers shorts at the [...]
Sometimes the world needs a little vampish, expressive, drama queen music. No one fits the bill as articulately and as melodically as singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Shara Worden. If dream pop can ever be called good, this is an instance.
Call me a cynic if you will, but all the yellow ribbons on earth will never make up for a decent, well-funded Veterans Administration backed by a Pentagon and a society that cares as much for returning troops as it does for those in the field. Both the living and the dead deserve proper honor. [...]
I know, I know. These are tough economic times the world over. Certainly tax officials should pursue tax evaders — even strippers. But is is just me, or does this have the sound of a likely story:
He said the Swedish tax authorities had been tipped off about Swedish internet strippers by the Dutch authorities, who [...]