I’m watching Dan Rather’s interview with Saddam Hussein. It’s fascinating. Hussein comes off as a fairly reasonable guy, an aging Arab aristocrat, well-spoken and slightly rumpled. He does let slip the occasional unsettling phrase (“jealousy is for women”), but nothing especially Hitlerish. If you’d just ripvanwinkled your way out of a century-long nap, and this [...]
I saw a goose standing alone on a broad field of snow yesterday, while I was out on my afternoon walk. It was just hanging out, at the end of a long trail of gooseprints, staring straight ahead, not doing much. I stopped and watched it for a while. You don’t often see geese alone. [...]
I deleted one of my recent blog entries today. Just now, actually. It was easy. I brought it up, reread it, cringed, hit delete. It was a pathetic, poorly written cry for help from an overprivileged whiner, in the tradition of the novels that William Dean Howells used to write about the unhappiness of the [...]
The Urinal Chronicles: Part 1 Steve had an odd habit of grabbing the metal stem that rose out of the top of the urinal when he was taking a leak — as if he needed to brace himself against the jet force of his piss, lest it hurl him across the men’s room. By some [...]
The space shuttle Columbia blew up today. Seven people died. I remember when Challenger exploded: they announced it on the PA at school, and it felt like a rabbit punch: it took the breath out of me, out of most of us, I think. I suppose you could say that more people die in a [...]
I think I’ve had about enough of movies basing major elements of their plots around impossible computer stunts. We just saw The Recruit, a so-so movie made unbearable by the dumb technical elements of its largely nonsensical plot. I knew it was going to be rough when, in the first ten minutes, our protagonist, a [...]
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