Monthly Archives: February 2004

For better or worse, happy Valentine’s Day to lovers, wish-we-were lovers, unlovers, and everyone between. Thanks to Guinness for pointing me to the online ACME Labs Heart Maker. No carbs! Flipping through the tattered leaves of my life I find … Continue reading →

Amy Allison sings that The Whiskey Makes You Sweeter, but very clearly, according to Le Figaro, The Wine makes French senators stupider. By an overwhelming majority, fueled by statements such as “wine is not alcohol” and “drinking wine, that’s not … Continue reading →

That was no scaby, that was my throat. Har har har. Seriously, several of my biological processes started to work again today, so surely rational thought can’t be far behind. I’ll be back on the blog wagon soon. Apparently I’m … Continue reading →

It’s not the dawn of anything, it’s the twilight. Or perhaps the gloaming. “This cardiomyopathy was a real bugger.” quoth the New York Times in an article about Dr Atkins’s state of health before his death. And they worry about … Continue reading →

The BBC reports today that Japanese doctors have found a way to use stem cells to make natural breast implants. Proof positive, if any more was needed, that the world has left the Age of the Machine and is entering … Continue reading →

Everything was fine this morning until some devolutionary nasal gasket slipped its housing a couple of hours ago. Now my brain is spooling through its Star Trek countdown message routine with the rest of me, and it will not listen … Continue reading →

Our Ethan Lipton CD has just come in from the Great Northern Factory, and there’s plenty of ooo-ing and aaah-ing and moving things from one box to another, so we’re sparse for a day or two. The CD, A New … Continue reading →

‘Jon Blake Cusack, from Holland, Michigan, told local newspapers the US practice of adding “Junior” or “II” after a boy’s name was too common. So, when his son was born last week, he decided on the name Jon Blake Cusack … Continue reading →