gleans + 1xlagniappe + 1xaddenda at 11:30 PM MT, 01/01/09

 

Christmas in Paris, 'luggage in Afghanistan'

'Wishful Drinking' By CARRIE FISHER Reviewed by CHARLES MCGRATH The title of Carrie Fisher’s funny, sardonic little memoir is a bit misleading.

'Revolutionary Road,' An Unrelenting Journey Through Suburban Ennui
Washington Post - Leonardo DiCaprio's boyishness serves him in the role of Frank Wheeler, who along with his wife finds himself struggling with the dull realities of adulthood.

Scientists Claim Evidence of Comet's Impact 13000 Years Ago Washington Post

Record stock market falls in 2008
Shares worldwide see record falls in 2008 with Wall Street having its worst year since 1931.

 

lagniappe

Eel-Grass

No matter what I say, All that I really love Is the rain that flattens on the bay, And the eel-grass in the cove; The jingle-shells that lie and bleach At the tide-line, and the trace Of higher tides along the beach: Nothing in this place. Edna St. Vincent Millay

addenda 

Cyril is an atheist by temperament,

 

an agnostic by intellect,

 

an Anglo-Catholic by tradition,

 

and a transactional epistemologist by faith.

 

He was born amid alien corn

 

and only marches to syncopated drumming.

 

He met good many strange people;

 

dropped beautiful flowers down soundless wells;

 

lived too long, good times gone.