The first snow settled in to Easlakia just when a rotten creaky achy cold arrived as well. Days and days of not June. But, still, the holiday feeling is starting already. Just four work weeks to go, after all. But everything is not as jolly as it should be.  •  The spirit of the season appears to …

We stayed up for the whole game. What the hell is the dea with the 8:25 pm starts? The game ended at 12:45 am. It's a work day for flibbertyjibberty's sake - though there is some question whether Friday is still a work day. After game one, I heard Joe Morgan on ESPN radio say that he didn't care …

So by now I expect you all have given to the NCPR membership drive. I listen to the station in the car, at work and as my wake-up call. I own a banjo and a mandolin because of the show "String Fever" that plays bluegrass. What other station responds to requests for ska? You'd be more like me if …

This is the sort of pop culture news to which one has a weird closeness and, yet, dislocation. It is sort of a touchstone as to the disutility of pop culture, as the obit in the Times tells in perhaps a bit too honestly than need be:  •  “And in the early 1990s he began staging Pavarotti and …

Don't expect much from me today. What a thunder storm. Like the 1812 Symphony without the orchestra: boom, blam, whammo. What with the many mouths a wailing, not a lot of sleep. I almost wrote "flat chest" up there. One more week in August and therefore in summer. Summer really ends around here in …

Find a radio with the long wave band and play your local airport's radio beacon. It is a slow non-stop repetition of its call letters in Morse code. Who knew?  •  Note use by Rush.

Why did none of you tell me? This is the best stuff for a summer van drive around Lake Ontario with the family - even with all the slutty drunkenness. Watch for yourselves.  •  But you would know that already. Because you all decided to not tell me.

Just like that it's gone - the thing you wait for all year. No one waits for August. That is like waiting for the weekend to come so you can sit on Sunday afternoon thinking about the workweek to come.  •  Big Toe Update: really - big toe.  •  Update: Ben points out why Hillary is very likely …

Can there be 100 comments without ry? That was the question I asked myself last night. We have settled into a kind rapport even with our differences. Is this middle age? Yesterday at the beer blog, I cited a post that I wrote in October 2003. That's a long time ago. When do blogs hit middle age …