Mixed Meters

Most of this post is about toilets . Skip ahead if you can't wait. At the end the subject becomes prison riots . The Ojai Music Festival...

Here's a joke that arrived in my email today. After years of hiding the fact that the love is gone, the last child moves out of the hous...

Here's a link to what I wrote during the Mixed Meters Dark Ages about three religious movies : The Blues Brothers , The Life of Brian a...

click here to hear By Then She Would Have Slept With Him - the title was said by a young woman describing one of her high school friends. C...

This is a picture of a chalk drawing. The person, I suspect, is real. Click here for more reality transcended (thanks to my Aunt & Unc...

I hope everyone had a fine Ides of March celebration. It's a good religious holiday for people who expect bad things to happen to them....

click here to hear Carpool I was going to call this spot " Caravan " but someone said the name had been used. I think " Carp...

As homeowners Leslie & I are always on the lookout for improvement ideas. Since there's a large crack in our driveway (a parting gif...

If you asked me to name a perfect piece of music I'd probably say "the opening theme to The Simpsons" written by Danny Elfma...

Here's another music video - an ethnically-attired boy soprano belts out the Queen of the Night aria from Mozart's Magic Flute - re...

My wife Leslie is a marine invertebrate taxonomist - a zoologist who specializes in identifying little spineless sea critters. I marvel ove...