So how's life? I've had almost no appetite for the internet lately, and not for lack of time. I've finished The Brothers Karamazov which I started on the plane down here, and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club (on recommendatio…

but not just any poetry! I discovered this, and poor Tennyson, it's quite unintentionally funny. For fans of Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Man's Chest, for fans who love to hate it, and for fans of the Ninja version. T…

I feel like poetry. April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.They pierce my dun casing, drinking from the red deltas, the rivulets …

(A fun article from Alan Jacobs on the Books and Culture website.)The word was coined by that curious man Sir Horace Walpole, known today (if at all) as one of the founders of the "Gothic" tale of suspense and terror, bu…

I came home today to find water all over the floor of the washroom. A hose on the on the washing machine ruptured, spurting everywhere. After calling my land lord's wife to get my bearings, I got the spigot turned off. (…