Thursday, February 23, 2006

The hills are alive with the sound of music

"What's on your iPod?" Whoosh!

Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Just the right words

Mark Kleiman posts entries from The Republican-English Dictionary.

Sample entry:
*God/ n./* Senior presidential adviser

Monday, February 20, 2006

Olympic connection


I've been pretty much ignoring the Olympics, but now feel that I must start following women's ice hockey. One of my fellow members of the Yahoo deafcats list (for owners of deaf cats) is in Torino, watching her sister play for Team Canada. Here's a pic of our deaf cat, Sheba, a world-class snoozer.

Sunday, February 19, 2006

Pick it, Merle!

Today's Seattle Times Pacific Magazine has a cover story on male boomers taking up guitar playing. One of the people interviewed is Joe Vinikow, who teaches Guitar for Grownups. He was my guitar teacher in New Haven 1975, and one of the folks who inspired me to move to Seattle.