Still Life With Cat

The item on top of the work pile at the moment is a now very battered advance proof copy of a novel called The Little Shadows by the C...

Long time no post once more, as I am balancing the meeting of deadlines with the managing of health Ishews. If you ever find yourself with t...

Australia, what have you done?

Malcolm Fraser has left the Liberal Party , and poor Margaret Simons , who as the co-author of Fraser's political memoirs has known for ...

A paradox: when you're in the grip of literature -- of poetics, rhetoric, narrative, drama, symbolism, metaphor, style, grammar, diction...

So when I got home this afternoon from fifteen rounds with a sibling -- the ferocious upfront one, all teeth and claws all the time, and no ...

We has it. Found via Hoyden About Town . This is just wrong in too many ways to count, but here are four to be going on with: 1) False adve...

You know that six days of intermittent yet shriek-making back spasm have really started to get to you when you read, in an innocuous piece o...

* well-known muscle relaxant Ouchy back. Reeaally reeaally ouchy back. Doc sez iz not seerouis. Pinchd nerv mussell spazzem take too assprin...