Category Archives: MySpace

Where “old” (2006 and 2007) MySpace blog posts go to die.

Hauntings

It’s been well over two years (Dec. 29, 2004) since Susan Sontag died, but in some reading and researching today she came up again.

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Product of France …

Wine of the night: Pepperwood Grove pinot noir. It seems that it, like Smoking Loon (which produces a tasty, inexpensive syrah/shiraz), is owned/made/marketed by Don Sebastiani & Sons. From the “winemaker comments” on my bottle we have:

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My Day in a Nutshell

Or Nut-shell. Nut Shell. I could write for (or even four) paragraphs on hyphenation rules. But I won’t.

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Manic Monday — let’s keep it “short”

I got up early (3am) so I could grade. Instead of pulling an all-nighter I went to bed at midnight (early for me!) and decided to get a couple hours of rest and then work. I awoke, showered, checked email, … Continue reading

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Easter Bunny: chocolate? cream? or roasted … yum.

Last night I produced two quickly made concoctions, one to eat and one to drink, and now, this afternoon/evening, one is gone, and the other sits patiently in the fridge for further future consumption.

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Minding my Ps and Qs …

I finally made it through the rest of Pearl Jam this evening. That led me to a CD of Pet Shop Boys and then three Peter Gabriel songs, most of which were known to me already. The same with Peter … Continue reading

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Food and Movies on Good Friday: Dobhan, Archangel, and Slither

To go with Good Friday, which I don’t “celebrate” anyway, I decided to listen to the “Good Friday Spell” from Wagner’s Parsifal. It fits, at least, with my “P” theme — I finished Ten and moved on to Vitalogy today, … Continue reading

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Bread and Bludgers

Last night I had the joy of rewatching The Two Towers, which I almost like more as a movie than as a book, even though there are a few Sam and Frodo scenes, especially toward the end, that just seem … Continue reading

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It’s April — it was in the 20s today.

And it was colder in northern Wisconsin. On the news I just heard that parts of the northern Wisconsin got 20 inches. In April.

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It’s the Giant 47 Pound Rooster talking …

Links of the Day: Perhaps I should just write LotD, but that’s a bit like LotR, it is not? Speaking of which, I haven’t watched Gandalf, my favorite hobbits, and a those magnificent CGI characters in far too long. But … Continue reading

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