Mixed Meters

Our Internet connection got very slow . Problem was the router. My ISP Earthlink sold it to me years ago. Their tech support used to be ste...

The back-story: I played the clarinet for many years, got pretty good, did some interesting things. Didn't teach much because I wasn...

Some new links in the Sidebar: websites of journalists I try to read regularly . I don't always agree with them, but fundamentally they ...

... tonight we saw Tim Burton's Corpse Bride --- see it with someone you love on Halloween. (Leslie cried at the end.) I'm not a ho...

The recent Jet Blue landing (with the front gear sideways) was the perfect media event. Fatalities were avoided and the media had plenty of...

I saw this sign in South Pasadena today. It's advertising recreational classes given by the city for seniors with too much extra time....

Here's a short list of things I've heard on the news in the last few days. Until very recently it seems to me that these things were...

They gave out " Emmies " last night. So why shouldn't I give out awards too. (There's no voting - I'll just decide.) F...

An NPR article caught my ear: Study: Eating Cheese Can Alter Your Dreams. It said eating different sorts of cheese can affect the content of...

I often tell people "I'm having a bad hair life ." Now is not the time to go into why, but you should know that I have a bush...

I'm predicting this blog will contain the name Leslie frequently. That would be Leslie Harris - my trophy wife. The two links in the s...