QueryLily "...I would never have thought of asking How you'd got that peculiar name..."

farewell ms. bear

Her early years were shrouded in mystery, at least to us humans in the house. She showed up in our lives some fifteen years ago, an already grown felis domesticus, with a tangled mass of beautiful brown fur, bad eyesight and a meow purrfectly calibrated to spur the most somnolent human in the household to her desired action, opening a closed door, filling an empty food bowl. She was the last of the four felines who back moved back with us to the bay side of the Berkeley hills. She tenaciously resisted her decline until the very end, which came yesterday. Farewell ms. woolly bear. Your absence is a palpable thing.

[28 March 2004] link?

a damn fine day

I have to say that yesterday was a damn fine day. The weather was perfect. I avoided work and took an early Bart train to the City and got off at Civic Center. I meandered up to SF Zen Center, browsing through the bookstore there. Further along, I ran into Andrew on his way to purchase windowshades, then on I went to meet up with Stacey and David at the Castro. Thank you all for buying the tickets!

We had a fabulous time at the "Sing-A-Long Wizard of Oz", emceed by the talented Connie Champagne, who was channeling Judy Garland via broadband. No dialups for her! And it was great to see the Castro filled with adults and kids, watching a memorable movie on the really big screen.

The film festivities over, we walked down 17th to meet Drew at Puerto Alegre. Stopping at a sidewalk sale, I was privileged to make the acquaintance of Lisa of Kung Pao Kosher Comedy renown.

The only bummer for the day was that this was the last time I'll get to see Stacey before her departure on Monday. Farewell Miss Stacey Jean. Come back soon.

After the goodbyes, Drew walked with me down to Borderlands. Like most other reputable Science Fiction and Fantasy stores, which are incomplete without a resident cat, Borderlands does not disappoint. Except this one's hairless.

[14 March 2004] link?

watch thou for the mutant

I've been reading John Wyndham's "The Chrysalids" recently. The book is scarily relevant to our times, with its vision of a post-apocalyptic world and a surviving human community based on exorcising any and all deviance from its preceived norm. A world where the warning, "Watch Thou for the Mutant" is given the force of a Biblical injunction.

[7 March 2004] link?

come back to the five and dime stacey jean, stacey jean

Miss Stacey Jean was due to arrive back in the Bay Area this morning for a week's visit. Austin's gain has been our loss. It'll be great to see her, and not least because I've missed the heck out of her since her departure last year. If things go as planned, I'll see her on Sunday. I'm not planning on doing any work that day, so tomorrow I'll need to finish up a little project.

Meanwhile, welcome back Stacey!

[5 March 2004] link?