Oh, run, don’t walk over to this post at the Macaronis blog for some gorgeous hand coloured 18th Century drawings of a variety of Macaronis, young and old, offered for your delectation by Ken Craigside, author of Here, And Always Have Been, a collection of gay historical short stories. They’re just so charming, and it appears to be particularly fortunate in the 18th Century to wear a traffic cone on one’s head. Who’d have thought it?
It went well, surprisingly enough. I’d forgotten how very tiny 5 year olds are, and I don’t know how much they got out of it, but they were all very good. Although slightly wriggly, they were impeccably silent and attentive. I did pretty much the talk that I outlined earlier, though with a bit more…
LOL! I don’t know whether to be flattered or flabberghasted, but my Google Alert this morning turned up a person on a pirate site requesting a download of “Shining in the Sun.” It’s not even due out until the 8th of June! It’s nice to know that the word is out and there are people…
Bad puns aside, I got a package through the door on Monday, and it was 8 little ‘imps’ of Black Phoenix Alchemical Laboratory (BPAL) perfumes and one full bottle of the like. Courtesy of Snakey who was selling his stash to finance a trip to the USA. I’ve heard so much about BPAL, and the…
I know I’m not the only Christian who has ever shaken their heads over the Fred Phelpses of this world, read some of the pronouncements of some of the Christian personalities and politicians in the USA and thought to themselves “that’s not what my faith is about at all! What happened to ‘God is Love’? …
Well, my e-reader arrived! Naturally I would have preferred an iPAD, but I can’t justify spending that much on any kind of electronic device. I was going to buy a Sony e-reader, but when I puttered about Amazon looking for one, I came across a special offer for the Cybook 3 Gen, which cost less…
I am always reading Ursula LeGuin and today I got a new-to-me book of her essays called “Dancing at the Edge of the World.” It opens with an essay that gives me joy, given that I am a fifty year old going through the life threatening process of the menopause. LeGuin is not the only…
