Heather signed me up for a novel-in-progress class at the Attic writer’s workshop when she signed up for a memoir class for herself. I should have declined; life is so hectic currently, and in the process of being simplified, that a new commitment would just evaporate right off my griddle. But the writing of novels [...]

Perhaps the Republicans have just given up. Depression can cause dramatic mood swings: despondency (”Conservatives don’t trust McCain”) to mania (”Sarah Palin”). In an article about voice profiling software, the New Scientist reports: McCain does not seem as adept at using spin to his advantage, and his “straight talk” can make his speeches fall flat from [...]

Well. The strange question today is: “who is writing this post?” It is I, and yet a new I, one who continues down the path of radical life changes, the journey from silly manchild to less silly adult man. None too soon, either. Last night Heather and I, after days of research, hied ourselves hence to [...]

It’s a damn shame that a prolific web designer such as myself is so slack when it comes to giving his own home on the web a new coat of paint. Last weekend I redid Heather’s site (not yet up), and that got me all flippity-floo about dumping my old-school black background blog. So I [...]