Tuesday Miscellany

Allen Barra published a piece about GKC in the Wall Street Journal last week [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123032986340736063.html]. When I edited Gilbert Magazine, Barra would occasionally write to me and even sent me an autographed copy of one of his books. Needless to say, this doesn'

Monday Moanin'

A guy, even a wimp, could win the UFC [http://www.ufc.com/] championship with this strategy: Passengers said the man left the plane's bathroom covered in his own waste on the Dec. 26 flight and attacked the flight attendant [http://www.thedenverchannel.com/travelgetaways/18398737/detail.html#

Something for the Epiphany

"Let us remain in adoration; and to Him, who, in order to save us, humbled Himself to such a degree of poverty as to receive our body, let us offer not only incense, gold and myrrh (the first as God, the second as king, and the third as one

Brews You Can Use

One of the best things about growing older: No winter blues. I'll miss the holidays, but I'm thoroughly ready to settle back to normalcy and to take a long winter nap. A handful of these Otters might be perfect. "The new special release is a

Happy New Year

I celebrate the New Year in my regular fashion: Meet at the drinking club with friends and family at 2:30 to watch bowl games and drink beer. Afterward, I go home and meet the glare of my wife, who's been racked with eleven children (my seven and

Tuesday Miscellany

Alright, I'll vomit now: "The French perfumer Etat Libre d'Orange introduced a product this year called Sécrétions Magnifiques that's supposed to smell like a mix of blood, sweat and semen," Herz said. "And the fashion designer Tom Ford has

0-16 Monday

Well, my Lions did it: 0-16. Unbelievable. The league is set up for parity, but the Lions have managed to be head-and-shoulders worse than anyone else in history (we can debate whether the 0-14 Buccaneers were worst, but surely we have better things to do . . . don&

Something for Sunday Morning

"If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times." St. Augustine (Note: I saw this on the Internet; I haven't verified it.)

Post-25th Miscellany

People sometimes ask, "What's it like to prepare Christmas for seven children?" My response: Ask my wife. I just have to pay for it all, which is a huge task of course, but it's spread over the course of twelve months, whereas my wife&

Brews You Can Use

Light holiday blogging continues. Just this post from Tim J: I don't want to catch anybody not drinking [http://timothyjones.typepad.com/old_world_swine/2008/12/i-dont-want-to-catch-anybody-not-drinking.html] . A little Belloc exhortation on the evils of abstaining. > "For