• Uncategorical Weirdness

    Rats! I’m Philip Jose’ Farmer

    I am: Philip José Farmer This prolific author brings surprising depths to he-man adventure tales, and broke science fiction’s prudery barrier. Which science fiction writer are you? This is all very well, but I was shooting for either Keith Laumer, Alexei Panshin, James M. Tiptree., or C.J. Cherryh. As seen at DDtB.

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    Happy Feet and a Half Rack at the All Night Strut

    The All Night Strut We went to see the latest offering in our season ticket series at the Marriott Lincolnshire Theater – and like many times before went in not knowing what to expect, and came out smiling. “All Night Strut” is a revue – it’s one of those pastiche shows with a lot of songs, a lot of dancing, and no plot, story, or structure to get in the way. It’s framed by vignettes with a clown figure called “Coda,” who introduces the show, plays around with lights, music, and dancers, and gets up to gently amusing mischief. Here’s…

  • Mini-Posts

    links for 2007-01-28

    Sacred Cave of Rome’s Founders Discovered, Archaeologists Say (tags: Archeology Rome Cave) Childhood Poverty Is Found to Portend High Adult Costs – New York Times (tags: MakePovertyHistory Poverty) Appointment called unconstitutional – Los Angeles Times (tags: Law Bush Appointee Rove)

  • Mini-Posts - The Life of Riley

    Riley’s Self Image

    Riley looks just like this when he's grabbed his favorite boingy-boingy toy in his mouth and tries to walk off with it before getting pulled back by the elastic cord. Just now David was playing with him upstairs and we had a case of "wacky cat" right on the bed. Riley went completely spazzy for the toy, and we were lounging at either end of it just laughing hysterically at him. Then he collided with the laptop and decamped for the relative safety of the floor. Funny little kitty! 

  • Food, Glorious Food - Health And Fitness

    Getting Fitter

    I’m at the end of my third week of the 6-week fitness deal I got through work,and it’s quite evident that it’s starting to pay off. I’ve lost a few pounds, but more importantly, I’ve gained muscle mass, or at least muscle tone. Last week’s tally: I was somewhat slack at the beginning of the week, especially when I missed my original personal trainer session. But I picked up and got in Tuesday night, Wednesday night, Thursday morning, had a trainer session that day, and yesterday morning. Plus, today David and I got in to Bally’s, and I did a…

  • Blogs Wot I Read - Hot Off The Presses

    With The Teapot In The Hotel Bar By Colonel Mustardovich

    Boing Boing: Murdered spy Litvinenko was killed with radioactive teapot British officials say police have cracked the murder-by-poison case of former spy Alexander Litvinenko, including the discovery of a “hot” teapot at Londons Millennium Hotel with an off-the-charts reading for Polonium-210, the radioactive material used in the killing. Holy CRAP, what a development. I suspect that actually the poison was introduced into the tea so that Litvinenko would drink it, and the radioactivity is just a carryover of that. How horrifying to think of all the people afterwards who might have used the teapot, or handled it, but fortunately it…

  • Mini-Posts

    ecto ahora es simpatico con WordPress 2.1

    Ecto and WordPress 2.1: error on getting post categories : Meandering Passage Thanks to my hubby and in-house geek, he found why ecto stopped working with this blog, but still worked with the Holy Moly blog, which hadn't been upgraded to 2.1 yet.  [tags]Wordpress2.1, ecto[/tags] 

  • Blogs Wot I Read - Only in Utah...

    Welcome to Blogaria, Journalist Citizen Mullen

    Here's a familiar byline I used to enjoy reading in the Salt Lake Trib – Holly Mullen makes a welcome addition to the rest of the citizen journalists of Blogaria. Or journalist citizens – it works both ways.   mullentown » Blog Archive » How to Survive January All I can see of the Wasatch Mountains today is a faint outline. Same for the Oquirrhs to the west. The smog has swallowed them. It’s gone on far too long — a winter smogfest and temperature inversion going on three weeks now. The air is so chalky, sooty thick I gave…