The Strain of Gaiety

I recently got sucked into a political debate in the comments section of a Facebook friend’s update, where he posted a link to Sarah Palin’s obviously ghostwritten op-ed in the Washington Post on global warming politicizing science. At first I took the bait and came out swinging with my two cents, but as my blood [...]

Got up early. Had a coffee. Got a bunch of these to snack on.

Then did the Glendale News-Press crossword with little to no help from the cat.

Turns out a German coal region is The Ruhr.

A Saturday collecting dirt cheap thrift store books you may never get around to reading is a day well spent.

I’ll be moving away from Koreatown next week. To Glendale. To the tree-lined, sleepy, garbage-free streets of Glendale. After five years of cockroaches, vandalism, crime, squalor, noise, water-dripping ceilings, thuggery and the general mannerlessness of the dirt poor — I’ve had enough.
But now I have the massive weight of moving in my near future. Tonight, [...]

Dear Strain of Gaiety (or My Blog),
I write to you today from the Pasadena Central Library. I had stopped by here to get a little writing done after going into the office for a meeting. Actually, the office was having free food for lunch and I drove in to glom. But now that I am [...]