Sorry; I love Rufus Wainwright, but this guy’s voice and singing isn’t half as good as his. And the song was dull. So I guess that although I listen to new music, I don’t want it to sound like old music?

Re: Gogol vs. folklore – I certainly recognize that story from one of the stories in a collection of Russian folktales in my possession. How close it comes to Gogol’s version (or the film) I can’t say, as I […]

September felt very long, but not in a bad way. Read: My favourite Swedish author (that’s a lie – he’s my favourite author of any nationality) P.C. Jersild released another novel at 91 years old, nine years […]

Holidays, concerts and food – oh my! Glad to hear about the progress; slowly and in small steps, but progress. Lovely garden! And that pasta bake looked like the best kind of comfort food; yum! I’d say; […]

It’s a tad pedestrian…should have gone with Pestilence – now that’s a posh name!

Oh, I desperately wanted an exotic first name as a kid! My three older siblings all had them, but when I came along I guess the imagination well had run dry, so they named me Anna. Now, it’s still a popular name […]

Yes, as much as I like Aretha, I love Gladys Knight a lot more. Singing, building up and dialling it down as needed, giving it all when appropriate. Not just the same volume from beginning to end.

August was my main vacation month, my birthday month, and the start of my home reno/decorating year – I’m just now finishing “Phase One”, which was started on my vacation, the final phase of the complete […]

Must be a huge relief to go from those long infusion sessions to this relatively quick injection, with very little side-effects too. Hurray! And the new shed is definitely an enormous improvement from that joke […]

Nice review, @salwarpe, and I’m envious you got to see my fave Haley Heynderickx live! Less impressed by your choice to skip Wilco…but if you don’t feel it, you don’t. I miss the years when I used to go to […]

This reminded me of when my Italian nonna (dad’s mother) died, and her daughter found her mum’s pastry dough that she had made in advance of an upcoming family gathering – not knowing that the gathering would end […]

I never think about death, mine or anyone else’s.

Good to hear everything is back to “normal” and you can enjoy Jan’s food again (bar a few beans too many)! And hurray for the treatment getting approved for everyone! I say you get bragging rights for that one. […]

I’m glad you listened to the warning your body was giving you – too many people shrug these things off and do nothing…and soon after they end up doing a whole lot of nothing for eternity. But you and your […]

@slotbadger, I hadn’t given it a thought (bad Afterworder…) but I do have a few LPs bought in recent years and never played (because they didn’t come on CD and I wanted them badly, despite knowing I couldn’t […]

I’ve owned three printers in my time and the only problem I’ve ever had with them is working them too hard and wearing them out, but they’ve all probably lasted a good ten years each, at least. The first one was […]

The pitter patter of a rain dance is what you need – Fred and Ginger are here to help:

What’s that film with the men eating themselves to death? I remember watching it as a kid, somewhat enjoying it but I can’t say I’m eager to see it again.

You should, to find out that the second sentence is wrong! 🙂 But unless you spoke Swedish into your phone, this also proves nothing…

As the resident woman on The Afterword, I’ll put you all out of your misery… No; we can’t either. Only if the poo isn’t as urgent and we’ve had time to empty the bladder prior to the next need making itself […]