TODAY IS THE FIRST FULL DAY OF AUTUMN. Welcome to Fall where I get to run on the back streets of Ayer, MA barely illuminated by street lights and solar powered vanity lights on people’s front lawns. The upcoming time change will will make things slightly better (and totally catch me by surprise sometime in […]
THE RELEASE OF DAN BROWN’s NEW NOVEL provided the big hubbub for the book publishing world in the last week. And I missed the beginning of it while on vacation. The New York Times reported that there have been over 2 million copies sold, spanning hardcover, audiobook and electronic books (no breakdown of each type). […]
BEFORE HEADING TO SCOTLAND, Patty and I finally caught an early evening showing of Quentin Tarantino’s latest bid to save the Weinstein’s company and provide a role model for slacker, movie geeks everywhere, “Inglorious Basterds”. It’s not like its namesake movie, but it is an original Tarantino. To be honest, I really […]
IT HAS BEEN A WHILE SINCE I POSTED something in my “Singles Going Steady” series of posts, but I have been infected with this song by a band called Portugal. The Man. out of Alaska. The song, “People Say”, kicks off their latest album “The Satanic Satanist”.
I have cheated a […]
I AM STILL SORTING through all the photos I took in Scotland (seems like I could have taken more), but I now back to work and riding the rails to Cambridge. Seems like the weather feels particularly nippy today, but weather.com says its 50 degrees in Ayer, MA. It is sunny outside nonetheless, so hard […]
IN ONE OF THOSE WHIMSICAL MOMENTS WHILE WANDERING the Edinburgh Airport on Tuesday I ran into Ian Rankin. He crossed over to his table tucked in next to the coffee shop leaving me with my mouth open with a silly grin on my face that mimed “hey aren’t you that author guy I have […]
ACCORDING to the signs and literature about the place, J.K. Rowling frequented The Elephant House tea and coffeee house while writing the Harry Potter books (well at least the early ones). So did the Ian Rankin. We only stopped as Patty saw the sign for hot chocolate and the “Mallow Delight”. She […]
I LOST INTERNET ACCESS before I could publish this on Thursday. We have now spent five days in Scotland. This post shows my state of mind on our second day in Scotland. This place begins to grow on you as you figure out the ways to travel and relax. And eat […]
