The Rat Squeaks

My birdwatching has gone lax during the past year, especially the record-keeping, but I would like to get back to keeping some notes on them...

"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street." — Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941)

Beating Up The New Kids On The Block None of the news stories I’ve located about Bob Dylan’s recent written remarks seem very detailed to m...

Am I Wrong? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it's possible that no blogger has more than a few non-bloggers in his audience. Ne...

I’m not very nervous about writing here most days, but maybe it’s because I’m not confiding things to you like some bloggers do. Serious th...

It Was Tasty, Too It's hard to absorb, but I find that I hardly know anyone any more to whom I could remark about Hunter S. Thompson, cr...

My cousin JW emailed me and had these to add to my previous list--not bad! Laraine Day Audrey Hepburn Lauren Becall Katherine Hepburn Betty...

A List Of Theatrical Ladies I Find Attractive Some of them are dead, others old and sagging. The rest are merely aging—like the rest of us,...

I am surprised to find that I am already past my pangs of "withdrawal" from Site Meter. I have so far felt little compulsion to g...