Last night I red-eyed from Hollywoodland to Providence. Thanks to the time-zone bangup, I’ve no idea how long it took. This is for the best. A brutal 5am layover later and I’m home. Huzzah! Needless to say, travel doesn’t leave one in the best of mental states for the high impact sport of blogging, so I’ll use this post to throw out some miscellany.
#1. A few days ago I woke up and went into my kitchen and out of the corner of mine eye, I espied this lovely fellow:
Despite being situated in a relatively suburban/low-industrial area of Los Angeles, my apartment is overrun with wild life. Spiders (supposedly black widows, though I’ve yet to see one), ants, slugs, and the occasional roach. Once a tiny mouse. To say nothing of the genuinely unpleasant little dog that lives in the front of my building, nor the tomcat living under it. But a giant lizard? Amazing. Here’s a close-up after I caught this guy with my broom and a plastic bag:
#2. Anyone interested in Victorian ephemera, Jack the Ripper, hangings, or how I waste my life is directed
here to a dissertation just published on
Casebook.org. A small piece about a small discovery.
Still, it’s a hobby.
