Not as funny as all the hype, but plenty guffaw-inducing nonetheless. I went to see Borat by myself, so maybe it’s funnier in a group. First bonafide guffaw was at this line (paraphrased) “I come to America with few clothings and a jar of Gypsy tears to protect against the AIDS.” For some reason, I [...]

As long as I keep bouncing her up and down, baby Rachel is happy. She is my sister Jill’s daughter and this is her first Thanksgiving. The thick black hair is courtesy her Hispanic father, Ray. She was born a little premature and very small, but is cute as a button. I will have no [...]

Earlier today a cop harassed me for making phone calls from a public street in my mom’s (my old) neighborhood. I can’t get a cell phone signal at my mom’s house so I go outside and walk around the block for calls. I’ve been doing this for the past few days. Today, Thanksgiving Day, I [...]

I will be reading another novel soon: Thomas Pynchon’s long-awaited latest, Against the Day, is officially out and my pre-ordered copy from Amazon will arrive in a week or so. It is listed as coming in at 1120 pages, just how I like ‘em. Amazon has posted a description signed by the author himself. Here [...]

While rummaging in the attic of my mom’s house I chanced upon a yellowed brittle document of my late father’s, a “department of defense personnel security questionnaire” that he had to fill out upon his employment as a technical writer for Hughes Aircraft Company on 30 October 1962 (when I was 9 months old). Hughes [...]