Day archives: August 27th, 2003

So Long, and Thanks for All the Books

Douglas Adams died in 2001, and I’m still aggravated about it. Couldn’t he have waited to die until it was more convenient for his readers? In fact, while reading the introduction to The Salmon of Doubt, the untimeliness of his death rudely slapped me with a wet towel and made me cry. The Salmon of …

Got Trees?

I used to love to sit in my tree-house and read as a child. Actually it wasn’t so much a tree-house as a board laid across some branches, but hey it worked for me. Maybe that early communion with nature is the reason I get so pissed off that Bush is getting ready to sell …

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