Department of Letters Not Sent

Here’s a quite lovely Letter to My Dead Dog by Scheherazade over at Stay of Execution.

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How to Use a Cellphone

. . . without looking like an a*****. Thank you BIGTIME to The Waiter for this one.
Just go read it!
And if you recognize yourself, stop doing that stuff.
Now.
Don’t make me come over there.

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What a thing

I signed up at LibraryThing on June 15.
As of last night I’ve catalogued a total of 1,005 books there. That’s about it unless I find a stray volume or two in the car or under the bed.
Now I’ll export my catalogue to an Excel file, which will be my return on that investment of [...]

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Turn out the lights, the party’s over

Rice lost last night in Omaha to Oregon State, 2 to 0, in Game 13 (inauspicious number) of the College World Series. Which eliminated them from the series.
As the school’s website says: “Congratulations to the Rice Owls baseball team (57-13) on an outstanding season, including the Conference USA Championship and an appearance [...]

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Another fashion statement

So sue me. Confined as I am to wearing hiking shoes everywhere until the right 5th metatarsal bone is all healed up from its fracture – more here – I have acquired a second pair of the things. The Merrell Passage Ventilator model, pictured here, sports summery blue and gray colors with accents [...]

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College World Series, Game 12

Miami 5, Rice 0. Uh-oh. That means Rice plays Game 13 tonight against Oregon State. I haven’t followed it that closely but I think tonight’s game is a must-win or the Owls are eliminated.
There’s so much information over at Rosenblog that I could probably find out for sure – if I felt [...]

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College World Series, Game 8

Rice squeaked to a win last evening in Game 8 at the CWS in Omaha: Rice 3, Miami 2. I was home in time to see a little of the 7th and 8th innings on ESPN2, but I had to leave again before the end of the game.
Next game is Wednesday, 8 p.m. [...]

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Fetching summer footwear

Hiking shoes.
I’m wearing hiking shoes.
Everywhere.
Until further notice, you’ll see me in a pair of the Merrell Mesa Ventilator II, pictured. Yes, it’s summer, and no, I don’t work outdoors.
But my broken 5th metatarsal is still healing and this is what I am told I should wear while the bone continues to mend. [...]

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Baseball news

Game 3, June 17, 1:00 PM Central Time.Final score: Rice 6, Georgia 4.
Next: game 8, Monday, June 19 at 6:00 PM Central Time.
Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, Nebraska.
Go Owls!!

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Grace

Bill Clinton came to town yesterday.
More specifically, Former President William Jefferson Clinton came to Denver to speak at the groundbreaking ceremony for the memorial to the victims of the 1999 Columbine High School attack.
But, really, Bill came back to town. Bill, who believes his number one job was always “father” and number two was whatever [...]

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Signing Statement

Mike Keefe sums it up in the Denver Post editorial page today.

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Catalog status

Joined LibraryThing: June 15.
Number of books catalogued as of 6:00 a.m., June 16: 107.
I’m loving this. Especially with my handy bar-code scanner. Click on the ISBN bar code, the book info appears almost instantly onscreen, click to add it to the catalog, add some tags, then go on to add another [...]

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For the fifth time in ten years

Rice University’s baseball team is going to the College World Series. This weekend in Omaha. I’ll have to find ESPN in my cable TV lineup again. Game tomorrow at noon MST, Rice v. Georgia.
Go, Owls!!!

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LibraryThing

I just found this website.
Why wasn’t I told of this before?
I’ll be over there a lot, getting this room full of books catalogued at last.

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It’s hurricane season

. . . and June and Betsy are here with their handy little website explaining, without the asterisk, How to F*ing Evacuate.
Worth a look. It gave me the first laughs of the day – at 7:15 p.m. But that’s another f*ing story…
Big HT to Jeff at Library Chronicles.

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Yet another place for a warning label?

The Center for Science in the Public Interest – and there’s a name redolent of a Nanny State – has sued Kentucky Fried Chicken. Seems KFC’s menu items are just too loaded with fat. This ABC News story indicates they want warning labels on the food.
How tiresome. Like a warning label will [...]

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“Defending” heterosexual marriage – and other lunatic ideas

Over at This Modern World, in a post delightfully titled “The gay sex should start arriving at the door sometime later today,” Bob Harris writes:
I’ve been straight my whole life, but the Senate was unable to muster enough votes to “defend” heterosexual marriage.
Obviously, if heterosexual marriage needs to be defended, and now the effort [...]

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Intermittent explosive disorder

Oh, it’s a mental health problem.
Er, was I the only one who thought it referred to an, um, digestive tract phenomenon?

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Downtown recently

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Angels always welcome

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As if Lousiana didn’t have enough to deal with

Oh. My. God. How did I miss this news story on June 1?

Blanco says she’ll sign abortion billThe Associated Press
Gov. Kathleen Blanco said Thursday that she’ll sign a near-total ban on abortion – without exceptions for rape or incest victims – that is nearing final legislative passage.
The Louisiana House and Senate have approved the [...]

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Hurry – Ethics Liquidators Congressional Sale-a-Bration!

Mark Fiore’s latest animation, “Ethics Liquidators” is online for free viewing.
“Hurry, buy your influence now before your congressman is gone!!”
There’s a choice of bargains, including the “Duke Cunningham Bribe-o-lator.” The famous Jefferson cash-stuffed freezer. And many many more. They can keep prices so low and corruption so high by: “volume!” [...]

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US Soldier in Iraq: send me to the Mexican border!

Interesting comments from Lumberjack in a Desert, on W’s recent plan to deploy reserve troops at the US-Mexican border. LIAD is the blog of an American soldier now serving in Iraq. After noting the upside (Tacos, clean clothes) of such a deployment, and the down side (can’t shoot anybody without being buried [...]

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Congress insults our intelligence (again)

Synchronicity. An hour ago I was in the kitchen making breakfast and listening to the teevee news. I heard that W has urged Congress to pass the Constitutional amendment declaring marriage = a man + a woman.
I thought: good grief, with all the problems this nation has created for itself and its future generations (health [...]

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Eighty years

“Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.”

—-Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe was born on June 1, 1926. Eighty years ago. My goodness.

Rest in peace, Norma Jean.

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Holy cats and breaches!

HT to Schroeder at People Get Ready for this one.
Go here to see an excellent animation of the flooding that Katrina brought to New Orleans.
I’m reading the new book by Douglas Brinkley, The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Despite the subtitle, I’m already at page [...]

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