http://www.mtheo.net/blogb dyspeptic eructations, unjustifiable Sat, 15 Oct 2005 03:54:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Soap Opera (n.) — a subgenre of science fiction (q.v.) set in a parallel universe indistinguishable from our own except that males habitually discuss their feelings. http://www.mtheo.net/blogb/?p=15 Our Seattle seminar/symposium/get-together/bacchanale got under way Saturday night with a banquet at Ten Mercer, the wonderful Mercer Street institution just a few blocks from McCaw Hall. Both owner Brian Curry and chef Doug Wilson have gone many extra miles for us in the weeks preceding our event; for one thing, ... http://www.mtheo.net/blogb/?p=14 “And for you, sir?” “A martini, please.” “Gin or vodka?” “Uh, a martini.” “Up or over?” “A martini, please?” “Olive or twist?” “Twist, please.” Why does it have to be this hard? Especially when every single waitster who forces me – because forced, by general conditions if not by management – to engage in this game ends up ... http://www.mtheo.net/blogb/?p=11 Well, since it comes up so often, I’ll say it again: figure skaters — especially pairs skaters — are the greatest athletes in the world. By the way, they routinely go out and compete with injuries that bench hockey players. This was our third world championships (after Oakland ‘92 & Vancouver ... http://www.mtheo.net/blogb/?p=5 “What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature! This precious jelly, made up of just such ordinary elements as the rest of creation, affirming, like a precious stone, that the elements count ... http://www.mtheo.net/blogb/?p=3 “The graphic signs called letters are so completely blended with the stream of written thought that their presence therein is as unperceived as the ticking of a clock in the measurement of time. Only by an effort of attention does the layman discover that they exist at all. It comes ... http://www.mtheo.net/blogb/?p=2