We’re having a wonderful holiday. Hope you are too. I postponed the usual Thursday miscellanea post for Christmas Day, so here it is. I spent way too much time thinking about whether to call it “Thursday miscellanea,” “Thursday miscellanea on Friday,” or “Friday miscellanea.” Eartha Kitt died yesterday at 81. Among many other things, she … Read more
Full story here. Go on, click. You know you want to, you freak. I try (eh, mostly) to stay above the shank of the base pop culture nonsense, as well as the whole voyeuristic reality thing. Unfortunately, The Smoking Gun is a heaping shot of both, and a longstanding guilty pleasure. Incidentally—and I add this … Read more
The boys helped Lea with the Christmas tree last week, and Lea went back for a little straightening afterward. Nathan ambled in and said “Why are you doing that? Oh, I know. So you won’t be humiliated in front of your friends.” Ouch. Just can’t believe Lea and I would have crass, to-the-point kids, can … Read more