Now beginning The Case for Israel by Alan Derschowitz. Here is a brief review of it and a similar novel by Yaacov Lozowick, Right to Exist.

Via nerygirl: “Blogger has some tips on how not to get fired because of your blog.” Good stuff, especially since paychecks should always trump your blog.

semaphoria must have a really cool job.

Is San Antonio weather on crack? I went to bed last night and it was like 60. When I woke up this morning it was 33 (and my nose was stuffy again). A friend from work told me how he went for a ride on his motorcycle out in the country and saw a line of dark clouds in the sky. A few minutes later, the temps dropped “a good 20 degrees” and the wind almost blew him off the bike. He hit the gas and raced the cold front back to his house, weaving in and out of it as the roads wound through the Texas hill country. When he got home, he saw it tumbling towards his neighborhood and WHOOSH the wind blew and the temps dropped. Cool stuff, weather.

It just occurred to me that Rid of Me by PJ Harvey is 11 years old (recorded winter ’92, released ’93). After that, Steve Albini recorded two more of my favorite albums: In Utero and Last Splash. Why are most of my favorites from the ’90-’95 era? I must be getting old. Pretty soon, I’ll be listening to a classic rock station playing Mudhoney. I rue the day.

This web site is on my referrer list under four different URLs. What gives? How did it find me? Strange.