Saved by the door

You’ve all just been saved from very bad poetry [1] by oreth­ule deliv­er­ing me a Brandy cat from the Oreth­ule Cat Lend­ing Library. Yay for cat ther­apy. Cat hugs for a week! [1] Well, actu­ally, only those of you in my story circle would have suffered...

For the record

I should have dis­al­lowed com­ments on that very per­sonal post of mine that was meant to be merely inform­at­ive. I have gone back and altered that so that none of the more emo­tional com­ments I made are visible.  Apo­lo­gies. I wasn’t in...

Perspective

Noth­ing like the full Amer­ican PR machine to put the world into per­spect­ive. Bremer: “We got him”. Fas­cin­at­ing state­ment because it’s pos­sible for him in this media-sat­ur­ated world to make that state­ment. We all *know* who “he” is, because if Bremer is...

Sean Astin is great

I am so impressed that there is actu­ally a debate between Sean Astin and Elijah Wood in the com­ment­ary of LOTR:TTT over whether the line “There’s some good in the world, Mister Frodo and it’s worth fight­ing for” is an expli­cit con­don­ing of war or not....