Okay, what? This is just toooooooo weird. I wonder sometimes how one is supposed to write SF anymore, given how bizarre the real world is. But don’t get me started on Bushie, I won’t stop…

A great article by Stephen Bayley, author of A Dictionary of Idiocy (not yet listed on Amazon), about the importance of being opinionated… which makes me feel pretty good! Here’s a taste: Opinions flourish only in periods or cultures without a dominant religion. A medieval monk in his Cluniac abbey or a contemporary mullah in his mosque and, indeed, a fine Victorian gentleman, had little use for original opinions. The collective opinions of religion are inflexible dogma, not interesting expressions of private thought. The best opinions are contrarian, not conformist, although that is in itself a matter of opinion… In …

Okay, I likely wouldn’t be perusing a website called Austinmama unless friends had something up there, but… that said, this month’s offerings are very good, and especially Melissa’s domestic disturbance column, this month on the effect parenting has on a marriage. Stop reading my page for now and go look at Austinmama instead for a while. Then, of course, come back and read my page. Heh. I don’t want you abandoning me just yet…

But I’ll post it anyway. Er, thanks for violently executing the injection of this horrible thing into my poor unsuspecting head, Adam… And another scary thing, also c/o Adam, is here… Gollum in da haus, yo.

No, no, guys. Don’t get all excited. I didn’t get lucky or anything. It’s just that in Thailand, a company just launched a new product line: tea scented pantyliners. Hmm. Found the info about this over at a new blog: The House On A Hill: A Sassy Lawyer in Philippine Suburbia. Go have a look! Recipes and other stuff, it’s a cool site.