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  • She used all nine lives and went into extra innings

    You wouldn’t think that a man who fought U-boats and savage storms at sea would name his cats Kitty and Kat, but he did. About 15 years ago, when a stray cat showed up, a female who resembled Kitty (or maybe Kat), the man adopted the stray and named her…

  • Hillary Clinton explained

    Mr. Wm Seabrook holds down the U.K. desk for Run-DMSteve Worldwide. He’s performing within acceptable parameters, despite his occasional musical lapses (Béla Bartók). In response to my last post about things I have lived long enough to see (which I wrote the day after Hillary Clinton became the Democratic Party’s…

  • Things I have lived long enough to see

    Women chess masters. The return of the Kalakala. They finally fixed the entrance to Interstate 195 in Providence that has been trying to kill me since I learned how to drive. The Red Sox won the World Series. Gay marriage. A black man in the White House. A woman as…

  • Happy dog story

    In January we voluntarily returned Xena, Warrior Puppy to her breeder. She was five or six months old and exceptionally reactive to noise and movement. Our urban environment pushed her and us to the brink. Now we have a new puppy, our lucky dog Lucky, but of course we wonder…

  • It was hot enough in Portland today to melt Donald Trump’s orange face paint

    Astounding songs on atrocious albums, part 1 The Zombies, Odessey and Oracle (1967) Britpop Invaders The Zombies have reunited! They’ve recorded a new album. They went on tour. They came to Portland! I considered going until I read that they had hired extra musicians so they could play their final…