Danny Novo
From the monthly archives: July 2004
It is simple. Keep your bathroom clean. And when I say clean, I don’t mean “clean enough to find the toilet.” I mean surprisingly clean. Maybe even shockingly clean. “It actually took me more than half-an-hour” clean. If you do this, your girl will stay. And she’ll put up with a lot of other stuff […]
In the car this morning, Tiffany and I were discussing the suggestions that Cheney may be bowing out of this election. The specter of another, more moderate, vice-presidential candidate scared us silly. Bush-Powell 04? Bush-McCain 04? A ticket like that would crush Kerry-Edwards 04. Someone I read or heard yesterday (I know, cardinal sin of […]
Yesterday, after Tiffany got home from her trip to Iowa City, we went out and rented Mystic River for the evening. We put Aidan to bed, washed up, and settled in with some trepidation. Since having Aidan, we haven’t felt that we were really emotionally ready for powerful dramas, however good they might be. We’ve […]
I have three versions of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah in my iTunes library. The first is, of course, the original by Leonard Cohen. The version I have is off of one of his greatest hits albums, The Essential Leonard Cohen, and includes a chorus, his usual lugubrious delivery, and a somewhat seventies-ish electric banjo sound. Now, […]
Unlike the last book I read, this one took me about twenty-four hours to read. Yeah, it’s fluff, at best. But it was fun fluff. Book’s about a woman who is part of a worldwide secret society of folks who control the weather. Or rather, they try to control it. She gets in some trouble, […]
Well. Wasn’t that close. Yes, Edwards is inexperienced, at least compared to Kerry (though not to George W. Bush when he was running for office, Tiffany was quick to point out). Yes, he isn’t all that popular even in his home state of North Carolina (approval ratings about 40% during his one term as Senator). But […]
