chess à trois

There is a rule sheet ( next page ), but you can start playing without it and refer to it as needed.  Basically, three sets of pieces (the...

wow

The mail has just come.  Envelope from Harvard University Press.  HUP is celebrating 100 years of the Loeb Classical Library - which they no...

NEXT time, I want a tattoo artist

Of course, tattoo artists come from a different world, one where people come in, request a drawing, the artist does the work and gets paid,...

Lunch with my mother and sister. My sister says at some point: "Sometimes I wonder, where did we COME from?" She enlarges.  The Ve...

christmas is coming . . .

My ex-father-in-law, Eric Levene, is a GP. A GP with an exceptionally well-stocked liquor cabinet. Christmas comes but once a year, and when...

disgusted in topeka

pp has not had much to say about statistics lately.  So. Data. Cussedness thereof. Lighting Rods took a long time to get published.  It was ...

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Lee Konstantinou, author of Pop Apocalypse, has a review of Lightning Rods and slightly mad interview of me over at the LA Review of Books...

As Joey Comeau points out, there is a book called Outwitting Squirrels .  An extremely amusing book, I might add (if the pages available fo...

On Dec 1 I will be giving a talk on Language Games at the Center for Writers and Translators at the American University in Paris, details he...

meanwhile, over at asw . . .

Joey Comeau : So, there a book called Outwitting Squirrels . The fact that there exists a guide to outwitting squirrels makes me hap...

unendlich shameless self-promotion

Readers of pp will have noticed that the blog has dwindled to an outpost of the New Directions PR machine, not much happening apart from occ...

The Winter issue of Bullett magazine has a story, That Obscure Object of Desire, of which my editor, Henry Giardina, says: The Turkish speak...