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Back to: Poor Clio; or, back to: Past history
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11.24.2000/21:05 |
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Best re-discovery of an underused resource I've seen this week! |
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11.24.2000/16:35 |
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A useful site for amateur dentists. |
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| 11.24.2000/09:20 |
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| Need a vacation idea? |
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11.24.2000/09:15 |
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Mais la! Tell me this isn't
just the most precious thing... |
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11.24.2000/09:10 |
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Fly the germy skies. |
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| 11.23.2000/08:40 |
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| See Jupiter's moons! |
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11.23.2000/08:30 |
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It's Thanksgiving ... happy turducken day! |
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11.22.2000/10:06 |
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Maybe this is what I'm waiting for. |
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11.22.2000/09:50 |
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I picked up Patrick McGrath's Asylum the other day
at one of my all-time favorite bookstores, Three Lives in Greenwich Village.
While checking out, I told the woman at the counter that I had realized something about my taste in books.
"I realize that I like books that are at eye level," I said.
"We have a foot stool," she replied. "You can stand on it. You can sit on it. That gives you three times
as many books."
In the meanwhile, I had the McGrath, which had indeed been at eye level. McGrath is a contemporary writer of gothic
tales, abudantly populated with twisted trees and sexual obsessions. A sort of more-masculine version of Barbara Vine. I liked
Asylum very much, was eager to get back to it when a bit of reading time was on the horizon, and look forward to more
of his books...though not one right on top of the other. He is an author who (like, in my opinion, Anita Brookner) can
best be appreciated in isolated stretches where his particular sensibility can remain fresh to the reader. |
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11.22.2000/09:45 |
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Hey, some guys like to go for the big bucks. |
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| 11.21.2000/12:05 |
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| If this ever happened in New Iberia,
we would call it "Bayou effect." |
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11.20.2000/11:42 |
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Sites That Are What Their URLs Say They Are Dept.:
www.laptopbattery.net. |
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11.20.2000/11:40 |
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Save the sixties. |
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11.20.2000/09:55 |
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Was in New York over the weekend; amongst the chores
was going to shows that we will not bring back home to our audiences here (no more need be said about these). On the last
leg of the way back home, ran into a friend who had seen Friday night in Las Vegas the casino-town version of what
we had seen in New York on that same night, De La Guarda. Though this is unlikely to tour
in anything like the fashion it is performed in residence, it was quite fun, if you like loud theater where you get pawed
by the actors and get wet. I recommend it for anyone who likes wild, fun, experimental stuff. But don't wear your best clothes.
By far the best thing I did while I was in town was go to the Adelson Gallery, where there
is currently (through Dec. 22) an exhibit of Cassatt drawings and prints.
This is an extraordinary chance to see a splendid round of work that is about to be split up and sold. By all means
if you love art and you have any chance of seeing this, go. |
| 11.20.2000/09:50 |
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| Bad stuff about David Duke. |
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11.15.2000/08:20 |
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We are now well into those days of the year
in which people whose birthdays it is were almost certainly conceived, carried and delivered all within one calendar
year, as meaningless an observation as I can think of. But it does apply to my two sisters, one born on Nov. 20 and the other
five days shy of ten years later. Poor Clio, by absolute coincidence, will suspend new entries between today (happy birthday
little sister) and Monday (happy birthday older sister) because of business travel. See you next week... |
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| 11.14.2000/08:50 |
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| Hummingbird legends. |
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11.14.2000/08:45 |
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How to chose, how to chose? |
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11.13.2000/10:45 |
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The answer apparently is, yes, you
do need a special cat toothbrush. |
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11.12.2000/10:15 |
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I to laugh very much when I am reading
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris. |
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11.12.2000/09:05 |
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Good news! You can now lose
more than money at the casino! |
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| 11.11.2000/09:47 |
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| Eclipse! (Plus,
a rant on the millenium mis-call.) (And if you like that, here is another millenimum-is-2001 rant.) |
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11.11.2000/09:45 |
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Toward a universal language. |
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11.10.2000.09:25 |
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Site for the British magazine Punch
has a sizable cartoon archive, but I couldn't manage to make the online subscription interface work. |
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11.10.2000/09:10 |
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Save the butterflies. |
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| 11.9.2000/21:20 |
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| I have been given to understand that what has
been unfortunately lost in all the hurrah
over Floridagate is the fact
that more than a few voters in the Carolinas are quite miffed at what they view as a
quibblingly technical assertion that Missouri is the first state to ever elect a dead man to the Senate. |
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11.9.2000/20:55 |
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Because the way that I currently make my living is as a difficult-to-capsulize combination of internet/web/e-commerce developer, freelance
writer, publications consultant, arts managment consultant, theatrical producer, and stock investor, I have taken
lately to saying, when asked by new acquaintances what I do, that I am an amateur dentist.
"I'll do your dental work for free," I offer brightly, "although, of course, it's only fair to point out that I have
absolutely no medical or dental training."
"Uh... how did you learn it?" my new friend might ask.
"Well, I haven't yet learned too much, really, except of course what I've observed when I go to my own dentist.
But I've been meaning to get something from the library. I really find it quite fascinating. I'd love to yank out one
of your molars. Although I think you should bear in mind that there is quite a bit more discomfort when using the
services of an amateur dentist than a professional one, as they have access to drugs and so on I that I don't. I do
offer a slug of whisky."
You may be not terribly surprised to know that no one has taken me up on this yet, although my friend's high-school
sophomore daughter has told me that she would like to be able to tell people that she's an amateur dentist, too. I was glad
for the company, and happy to welcome her to the fold. We're thinking of forming an American Association of Amateur Dentists and Gum Health, giving us the acronym AAADGH!
As it happens, it was Susan's mother who first gave me the idea of becoming an amateur dentist, when she complained that
she had set an appointment with a new dentist (the one Susan and I go to, and acting on our recommendation) and that it was going
to be seventy dollars.
"I'll do it for free!" I cried. "I've been wanting to learn!"
I explained to her that I was sure I could find a page somewhere on the Internet or in an encycopedia with lots
of helpful information.
"You know," she said, "Seventy dollars maybe isn't such a bad deal after all."
She did offer to let me floss her dog's teeth, but I declined, and was in fact just a touch insulted. What does she
think I am?
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