Lee Schlesinger

From A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M Miller Jr:

Here's a lovely sentence: "Straw stacks with pepper-pot tops stood on springy beds of hedge branches." — from "The Flight of the Maidens" by Jane Gardam

The ABBA song Mamma Mia was released in 1975. The musical Mamma Mia premiered 24 years later in 1999. Since the musical has now been running for 27 years, it has been around longer than the time between the song and the musical.

I've begun rereading Look Homeward, Angel, and I'm finding it as breathtakingly masterful as I did 40 years ago. #ThomasWolfe

Sorry to learn of Don Nelson's death. Our families lived down the street from each other when I was growing up and he played for the Celtics. I used to bike by there all the time. www.newsweek.com/sports/nba/h...

Watching the Tony Awards makes me consider auditioning for a community theatre show again, after I thought I was done.

I don't like an overwhelming quantity of Lord of the Rings, but I can stand a Tolkien amount.

Overheard at school: "If you're a tomboy or a stud you could be a femboy." #seventhgrade

I've read 33 novels and novellas so far this year.

My wife says if I write a book it should be called "Things I Shouldn't Have Said."

I wish I could live forever. I'm having so much fun.

I was excited to watch the Artemis II launch. I feel like that makes me an old-timer — "When we watched the Apollo launches..."

I was going to make a clever post, but then I realized that no everything that comes into your head needs to be shared with the world.

T-Mobile's annual support of free streaming on the MLB app makes my life better. #baseball

Heritage is grandparents and great-grandparents and all those older generations looking down at you fondly and wishing you success.

The first Red Sox spring training game, with Joe Castiglione no less, was just what I needed as a reminder that spring will come someday.

I have mad DJ skills, by which I mean I can crossfade, make great, segues, and slip-cue LP tracks. Man, I'm old.

I would like to work this week but our plowing service hasn't been here and doesn't respond to phone calls or texts. We've turned to Plan B — cross your fingers.

Wouldn't it be cool if snow falling came with a musical accompaniment that reflected the mood of the storm?

No one has phoned me so far this year. Or texted me for that matter.

You know what glitter is? It's fairy feces. Yeah.

Donald Trump is doing what the 9/11 terrorists tried to do — demolish the White House.

No Kings, Philadelphia

A lot of Wordle streaks are going to be broken today.

I'm not interested in reading any article whose headline begins, "I asked ChatGPT..."

Red flag in an adult: interest or belief in astrology

Tried to read two classic novels today. Couldn't get into either. For the the record, Mrs. Dalloway and Angle of Repose

I sadly conclude, after many efforts, that Virginia Woolf is not for me.

The power's out. My phone battery is low. Might not make it. Send brownies.

I'm heading into Manhattan on Wednesday - time to see some theatre.

Turns out it's OK to step in a puddle but not in a puggle 🤷🏻‍♂️ #liveandlearn

I've been on Snapchat for more than 12 years, and in that time I think I've had two conversations on the platform - and I'm fine with that.

Student 1: My dad draws. Student 2: My dad farts. Great way to to start a day of substitute teaching!

Just having a chat with a deer friend in the backyard.

43 years ago today I saw The Ramones in concert.

In West Virginia. The air smells wonderful.

So Sarah Snook and Sadie Sink are two different people?

Wife: Who was Lincoln's vice president? Me: First or second term? Wife: First. Me: Hannibal Hamlin Wife: Second? Me: Andrew Johnson Wife: You're annoying.

I was never comfortable as an extrovert but I could fake it. Now I don't have the patience to do that.

Bookish Checkpoint! Last: ✨ Bread Givers — Anzia Yezierska Current: ✨ Sanctum of the Soul — Ken Kade Next: ✨ Freelancers of Neptune — Jacob Holo Last Book I Added to My TBR: ✨ Murder by Memory — Olivia Waite

OK, editors of Bluesky, what's wrong with this sentence? Hint: it isn't the passive voice: A few spies had been sent to gather more information, but none had returned alive.

I'm not in any group chat. I've never been in a group chat. 😔

Am I ambivalent? Mmm, yes and no.

Apparently the QWERTY keyboard layout wasn't designed to slow down typists who kept getting keys stuck. Here's the real story. repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dspace/bitst...

I'm usually a Brandon Sanderson fan but the slow pace of the Stormlight Archive books is trying my patience.

This would be a good time for an old friend to surprise me with a phone call