Bornfamous

We had a nice holiday meal, with everyone behaving well. At least I thought so.
Found out yesterday that my homeless alcoholic ex and his girlfriend each took my roommate [the ex's sister] aside and tried to persuade her to move out on me and get an apartment with them! She’s the prize because she [...]

Religious Sect Says It Will Announce the First Cloned Baby
“Ra?lians are followers of Ra?l, a French-born former race-car driver who has said he met a four-foot space alien atop a volcano in southern France in 1973 and went aboard his ship, where he was entertained by voluptuous female robots and learned that the first humans [...]

Sometimes I need to decide not to do something in order to decide that I really do want to do it, you know? Like tell you how our Christmas is going so far.
We stayed up late making cookies [and burning a batch], fixing the turkey and discovering where the giblets are kept. Robby got [...]

Some people say lutefisk has a very fishy taste and an unpleasant smell. To me, it tastes like Christmas.
–Allen Vevang, quoted in NY Times

I think it’s time to retire the blog.
It began two years ago as a way to work on my writing, but that fell by the wayside after a few months. Now the blog itself is an embarrassment of not even semi-regular posts that don’t say anything.
Kd has generously shared server space for active, [...]

We have infinite trouble in solving man-made mysteries; it is only when we set out to discover the secret of God that our difficulties disappear.
–Mark Twain