I almost forgot. Don Van Vliet died three days ago, at 69, from multiple sclerosis. He may be dead, but he sure wasn't weird. Musically ...

A Charlie Brown Christmas was on TV this morning. I somehow got through the whole thing one more time. It was pretty messy, though. Why doe...

I do NOT want one of these creepy things for Christmas. Thanks.

And congratulations, Tom & Jenny!

If anyone needed proof that post-modernism represents the end of human civilization, I just saw Gang of Four 's anticonsumerist post-pun...

OK, I guess I owe people some words and pictures. There seriously hasn't been a lot going on around here. The weather gets colder, we st...

"The scenario is this: A poor student goes off to a college far from home. His parents wonder whether he will be able to manage. They k...

OK, after three weeks of no blogging, this is possibly the most anticlimactic post ever, but I just had to relate that I literally could not...

Hey, all! Happy Thanksgiving! It was a bee-U-ti-ful day here in Halifax so we went for a little walk. We checked out the Shearwater Flyer Tr...

So here are those photos of Prospect I promised you. I guess the waves I mentioned are not really in evidence. But there's plenty of roc...

Wulp, I finished the new Jonathan Franzen novel, and it's a doozy. Another long one, another dysfunctional family, more multiple points ...

It feels like I've been shirking my duties here. I haven't really been keeping people very up to date about what's goes on in ou...

A few years ago I wrote about an idea I had called the Motivated Book Exchange (MBE). The gist of if was that people would agree to read bo...

Just wanted whoever to know that we made it through Tropical Storm Earl, and we have power and phone service back now. A lot of branches fel...

Here are some of the snapshots Alison's been taking with the Holga camera I gave her. Some of them are pretty psychedelic. I must say, ...

It was really great: hanging out with seldom-seen friends and their kids and dogs in Elysian settings. There was lots of swimming, biking, r...

I've been working like a maniac for some time, but I finally got to the end of things, at least temporarily, and now it's time for a...