Some Days in the Life

I finally downloaded the pictures in my camera and put them up at Flickr. They range in time from last summer, to New Year's, and on through St. Patrick's Day. Enjoy the silliness.

In the Wee Small Hours

Prior to viewing this post at 2 Blowhards I'd never heard of Jack Vettriano. I might start looking for some prints.

The Newsy

I came across this picture at American Digest in a post about Ansel Adam's Lost Los Angeles. The period details - the fedora, the workshirt for a vanished company (and why is it hanging on the outside of the newstand?), the pulp magazines on prominent display - all fascinate me. I wish I could visit this newstand.

The Good, The Bad, and The Links

The Good: I'm back, to do the blogging equivalent of spring cleaning, and lay down a bunch of links for my two or three remaining readers.

The Bad: Yes, as Heather noted my posting has been slipshod, to say the least - and likely to remain so for the immediate future. I've got lots going on, details of which may or may not be mentioned here at a later date.

The Links: Submitted for your consideration...

The April issue of Bookslut has a column about alternative histories, a favorite genre (or sub-genre - whatever) of mine. I highly recommend the first two titles the author mentions, The Man in the High Castle and Fatherland.

And some more about books (of course): the Essential Boston Reading List. If you want some Boston-centric tunes with your Boston-centric books, try Boston:The Musical. Now if only I could get my hands on a CD of Tiny Days by the late, great Scruffy the Cat.

I loves me some P.G. Wodehouse.

Parkinson's Law - which will make perfect sense to anyone who's ever suffered at the hands of the RMV.

I love jackets (the more pockets the better) and currently I'm lusting over the Buzz Rickson “Pattern Recognition” Black MA-1 Intermediate Flying Jacket. If only I had $500 or so to spare...

I would also like one of these and one of these. Oh, and one of these as well. Hell, I can get all three for a fraction of the cost of the MA-1.

There will be one or two more items in seperate posts...