A word to fellow webloggers

E-mail me if you think I'd enjoy reading your blog on a weekly basis. And I will. If I do.

I spent the last couple days either reading The Corrections, and it was a joy. I highly recommend it. I won't give a detailed review of the book, especially because I don't like knowing what a book is about before I read it and so you might not either, so here is an analogy. You know how, when you're in an airplane and you're lifting off, you kind of sit back and think, "well, here we are and now my life is *completely* in the hands of some pilot I don't know"? Starting a book can kind of feel like the same thing, only you have the chance to get off if you're not comfortable with the author's control. For this book, I not only felt comfortable in the author's hands, but I looked forward to doing little loop-de-loops and aviation tricks.

How dismayed should one be upon learning that a certain extremely powerful political figure cannot pronounce the word "nuclear"?

Nobody told me happy St. Patrick's day. Maybe it's not too late for you. Happy St. Patrick's day.