Then a new beginning ventures in

I interrupt my tale of phone-buying for one cute and one baffling thing. The baffling thing first: I just moments ago got a phone call from my brother, the one with the new job in Massachusetts, who was glad to get me because he ``didn't have much time''. He started to talk about getting something called a Nonsense List about things going on in New York City, and then the call died. He phoned ...

You Can't Always Get What You Want

...of singing a few bars of a Jackson song in a fakey falsetto, then staggering around groaning and clutching your chest before toppling dramatically into the pool. ***** The Price is Right Blog . I think I may have actually beaten austin_dern to this. ***** Woot! ESPN is going to show the game against Brazil live! ***** Only Detroit could manage to have a scandal involving sludge .

Telegraphic Iniquity

...I feel very enriched for being able to have the same service that the Victorian middle class prized. It makes me feel connected to the past. Transfer ware is a member of that class of items that austin_dern was musing upon the other day, that begins as a luxury of the rich, and within a few generations is regarded as a necessity for all. It's hard to understand how poor most people were ...

austin_dern pointed this out to me. I know there are some car geeks reading this who will get the reference: