... to himself. AND: For comparison, check out the Howard Stern headstone . They had a "Secret Santa" thing on the radio show, and the guy that got Stern's name gave him that headstone with his picture on it. Hilari…
The suddenly warm temperature on top of deep snow raised a lush fog. Last night, driving on a narrow road next to the lake, I said, "This is what death looks like in the movies. Driving into nothing." All the familiar l…
Eartha Kitt, died on Christmas... in 2008, at the age of 81. She was famous for singing that song about Santa Claus. But she was also famous as Cat Woman on TV's "Batman" ... ... "She may be evil, but she is a…
... because I don't like seeing the "Harold Pinter's dead" post at the top anymore... though I'd be happy to keep talking about the movie "Synecdoche, New York," which I thought was pretty good. It…
He'd write an "event score" -- "printed on a small white card that he would mail to friends.... Mr. Brecht said that he did not care if any of his event scores were realized and that he did not think that there…
Today is Veterans Day, a time to honor all military veterans. It is not, I think, a day to protest war. Yesterday, I was driving along the Speedway, the road between 2 cemeteries here in Madison. ( Here 's a picture I took of…
A letter to the editor of The News-Times: I just wanted to let you know that the use of the word 'fried' in your article about the squirrel who caused the power outage at the CL&P substation was completely distastefu…
So sad that she didn't make it that last step! One immediately thinks of the famous line : "And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you." Very sad. Please: no conspiracy theories about the tim…
John S.D. Eisenhower has a NYT op-ed opining that presidential sons should not be permitted to serve in combat duty. He recounts his own experience, as a soldier assigned to combat duty in Korea in 1952, as his father was about …
We knew he was dying, but it is sad to know he's gone. I'll have more in a few minutes, but here 's a press report. Please talk about your favorite Paul Newman movies. ADDED: To tell you the truth, Paul Newman is an a…
And so it begins: "I'm absolutely, fully in agreement with the argument that if pain is insufferable, then someone should be given help to die, but I feel there's a wider argument that if somebody absolutely, despera…
Ugh. Does everything have to tie back to the campaign? (Yes, I know Wallace wrote an essay about following around the McCain campaign in '00. Nevertheless. Show some respect.) ADDED: Here 's the essay.
Khalid Sheik Mohammed, on trial , looking like this now : He particularly took issue with a society that allows "same-sexual marriage" and other things that "are very bad." He said he could not accept a U.S. l…