As you can probably tell by how quiet it’s been around here, the past year has been … difficult. This year is perhaps going to be “difficulter,” but in a different way. 2011 is a Deployment Year, which means about half of my year is going to suck. The good news is, the best way …
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen My rating: 4 of 5 stars I almost gave this five stars, but the widespread praise made me pull back a bit. I don’t want to be lumped in with the other reviewers who have been so quick to shout ‘genius!’ and ‘masterpiece!’ and ‘Oprah!’ But the fact is, I quite …
After much fiddling, I’ve just discovered that I’d somehow uploaded a file named ‘index.html’ to my site which had screwed the redirect from thomaslitchford.com to thomaslitchford.com/blog. Apparently index.html overrides index.htm. Or just confuses the server? Hard to tell. Anyway, anyone wondering what had happened to my site, there you have it. Things have been quiet, …
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson My rating: 3 of 5 stars It was entertaining enough while I was reading it, but at the end I found that I was not under Larson’s spell so much that I felt compelled to read the sequels. It’s just a thriller, in the end. View …
The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt My rating: 5 of 5 stars Let me start off by saying, because I’ll be posting this to my blog, that this book has nothing to do with the film starring Tom Cruise. The film was fine, I don’t have anything against it, but the stories could not be …
Danielle has gotten a storm named after her! It’s fully expected that this storm will strengthen into a hurricane, and then there will be many, many jokes about Hurricane Danielle around this house. We’ll have to wait and see what, if any, impact this will have on her ship, but I’m sure her shipmates will …
Cup number three. It’s nearly eleven o’clock, and I’m still in my pajamas, so it feels like a lazy Saturday morning, but I’ve actually gotten some quite significant things done: I played catch with Sean, and I finally hacked my WordPress install into compliance. (I use the word ‘hacked’ in an ever-so-loose way; any minor …
Tawny port before bed. Here’s something great. A while ago, I was listening to Fresh Air and heard a remarkable interview with James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem. And I sort of fell in love with him. In the interview, he presents the most down-to-earth philosophy of making music I think I’ve ever heard. I almost …
Telephone Pole Graffiti #1 Originally uploaded by tlitchfo
