Good Humor – Aunt Edna’s Dog
All this Charlie the Unicorn inanity has me pining for the days of good, clean humor. Like, say, the scene of Aunt Edna’s dog in National Lampoon’s Vacation. Note, kids, the timing:
Big Jordan Lecture Finished
Today was a good day. I got the last bits of information (and some other things I’m not at liberty to discuss yet) that I needed for my upcoming lecture on Robert Jordan, and so was able to put the finishing touches on my notes for the talk. I’m thrilled …
Jordan Talk on Thursday
I’m giving a public lecture at the Charleston Library Society on Thursday night. The talk, entitled “An American Tolkien: Robert Jordan and the Roots of Fantasy,” is now complete with the exception of one short “show and tell” bit for which I’m awaiting a single piece of information from Jordan’s …
Gator Season
So gator-hunting season opens tomorrow here in South Carolina. I’m not making it up. Nor am I making up the fact that the state Department of Natural Resources “Alligator Management Program” website includes the phrase “gatorgonnagitit.” Yes, that’s “git” with an i. Not that I don’t see the reason for …
If This Is Goodbye
I was in a graduate class in Rochester, New York when word came of the attack on the towers. I remember it as clearly as yesterday, though so many years have passed. Mark Knopfler, “If This Is Goodbye” My famous last words Are laying around in tatters Sounding absurd Whatever …