Heavy Metal

| April 15, 2005

An observant reader may have gathered from a couple of past entries here that I’m something of a battleship aficionado. The reader would be correct. Nothing says “are you ready to surrender yet?” like an American battleship showing up on your coastline, ready to begin lobbing 2000-pound shells. Saddam’s army learned that lesson in 1991, […]

Uncle Russ

| April 13, 2005

For the past few days I’ve had three, count ’em, three generations of Emerson women visiting here — my niece, sister and mother. Apparently, since I am the designated bachelor in the family, they see it as their mission to take care of me whenever they visit. Invariably, this means cleaning and redecorating my house […]