Of course it is great to make more money, just don’t lose too much time doing so. Cut down on expenses; eliminate impossible ambitions. Life is short (but sweet).
Quail family feeding. Striped antelope squirrel keeps goosing jack rabbit, making it hop into the air. Clear skies for fireworks tonight.
about 7 hours ago
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So much wild life: road runner, quail, antelope squirrel, finches, sparrow, rabbits, dove, pidgeons. A family of 10 quail just arrived.
08:40:53 AM June 30, 2009
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A jack rabbit just joined the finches, doves, pigeons, and blackthroats in their early morning feeding frenzy. The birds just kept eating.
07:27:59 AM June 30, 2009
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Readers who know Tanya Huff from her Blood, Smoke, and The Keeper’s Chronicles books (or even the Blood Ties show on Lifetime) will find this stand-alone modern urban fantasy right in line with what they’ve come to expect from her. For those of us not so familiar with Huff’s work, a warning: This is not your usual fantasy fare. Not in the least.
One wades through an awful lot of pretentious chatter published when a new production of a work like “Waiting for Godot” is mounted. But what work is ever like Samuel Beckett’s excruciating 2-Act masterpiece? An English friend of mine, a literary scholar and sharp theater critic who has passed most of his life in Cambridge, detests that writer’s work […]
Not quite a century ago, on August 29, 1911, thousands of people began flocking to the Louvre (among them, Franz Kafka and his friend Max Brod) to gaze at a blank space on a wall. The 49-acre Louvre – still the largest museum in the world today – had been closed for most of the preceding week for the investigation of a singular occurrence: the most famou […]
This week: The Times's Neil MacFarquhar on his experiences in the Middle East; Caitlin Macy on Jill Ciment's new novel, "Heroic Measures"; Motoko Rich with notes from the field; and Jennifer Schuessler with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
Everett McCourt James Hannaham James Hannaham is the author of a novel, "God Says No." What are you working on? I dread this question. I'm at the beginning of several projects and trying not to worry about which one will be "the next one" - though I'm only going on faith that there will be "a next one" [...]
I didn't want to be that guy who made a playlist full of songs no one has ever heard, but maybe I did. I don't know what people listen to. In any case, these are what I've been listening to recently, and I think you should too.
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In our time . . . the illusion of immortality is created by technology. The Web, and its promise of a voice and a site for all, is our equivalent of the mare incognitum, the unknown sea that lured ancient travellers with the temptation of discovery. Immaterial as water, too vast for any mortal apprehension, the Web’s outstanding qualities allow us to confuse the ungraspable with the eternal. — Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
Of course it is great to make more money, just don’t lose too much time doing so. Cut down on expenses; eliminate impossible ambitions. Life is short (but sweet).
