Vroom!  •  This winter solstice thing is really hitting me hard this year. Sure I could set the alarm but wouldn't that mean I am ignoring my natural rhythms? I mean I have to respect my natural rhythms, right?

Anyone who can insult me, inform me, confirm my fears, correct me, and create a new icon for the 21st century - the crazed angry chemist - is all right by me.  •  Best. Comment. Ever.

Reading the NYT this morning, I came across this odd passage in a story about a chef who was given some basic cooking tasks but had to use other oils:  •  “Mr. Schwartz, a chef who has worked in some of the city’s most celebrated restaurants, including Le Cirque and Osteria del Circo, agreed to …

A few years ago I decided that not getting sleep was not good. I yap about napping a lot but it is one of the few things I make a point of doing. And I am not talking about dealing with a cold. But I seem to have put my head down last night at 4:30 pm and pretty much snoozed until 7:15 am. I …

It looped. Whatever I had a couple of weeks ago looped back. The head is a bongo left in the hands of a three-year old. Everyone is hacking. I drink the blood of pine trees for comfort.  •  For some reason I needed to record Omega Race, a big part of my early undergrad, here on the blog today. If …

It has been a bit of a blur recently. Much of what I do at work boils down to reading, writing and editing. I get up and read and write - and sometimes edit - here. And recently I was asked to write two beer related bits, one 500 words and one 5000, which means I have been pretty much writing for …

So I figured if I was qualified to act as judge and executioner over the life of a  •  cat I was at least qualified to be amateur boy vet. Seems likely from what  •  you read on the internet that the old thing is anxious from the move, creating  •  alkaline pee and over eating. I've been doing …

"Explain myself? I don't have to frikkin' explain myself...I'm a cat!"  •  As far as I can tell, I think there are humans on one side of the line and then there are plants and animals on the other. Our cats were mousers. They were brought in for a job and when we moved three and a half years ago …

I'm just staying quiet today. A touch of bronchitis of a sort.  •  Meantime, can't we just let Monte be Monte?  •  “The demonstrators, who called for an immediate moratorium on all deportations, surrounded Solberg at the podium, and then blocked his exit from the church hall's front door. When …