The House of Substance

Opera is nifty in comparison to IE6. That's about it though, as Firefox has so many different extensions that a reasonably savvy user ...

Another blow to incivility. Why the failure? One example of that might be that Wal-Mart's American managers pressured German executive...

Sad.

'People fell out' as wind took blow-up sculpture Monday July 24, 2006 Witnesses today described how a giant inflatabl...

'Imitation IPod' Invades Radio By Dave Demerjian In the two years since Jack FM radio made its debut in the United States, the major...

"The civilized world has asked little of Mississippi since William Faulkner's passing, but signs of a pulse in the state legislatur...

Finally.

ADDED: Roy thinks I'm objecting to Boyle's politics . He specializes in calling me an idiot, in numerous posts, but he never seems ...

It stands to reason that a king should be able to massage anyone he wants, especially in his own domain. It's also important to remember...

Can't get this out of my head. Posted it at Sadly, No! and spelled dyslexia wrong. Frustrating.

It's hard to describe how amazing the Thousand Nights and One Night are. I first took a stab at them following along the snobby recursi...

Middle-click on the "back" button and get the old web-page in a new tab.

Jesus Christ, what am I thinking with a subject line like that?

Joe Klein , biographer of Woody Guthrie ? How can that be?

Sadly, me too: Righteous Bubba said, July 13, 2006 at 2:04 Left-wingers who don’t read the entire articles shortened here ...

In further laziness, I read Thank You, Jeeves by PG Wodehouse. [Get a load of that link! If a crumbling nation of corrupt depressives can...

Saw Eugene Ionesco's The Chairs recently as well, nicely handled. I'd only read his work previously and seen nothing staged. Nice...

I saw a lotta movies this week, all four of which I enjoyed, which proves something about suckerdom or how fucking fantastic the movie indus...