I don’t know if it’s hit the stores yet, but “The Book of Magic”, Alice Hoffman’s sequel (not prequel) to Practical Magic, has just been published.

And no pinkface unless you’re RuPaul.

They haven’t yet explained how one bullet killed a person and injured another.

I find that instead of walking off the job it is so much easier to stay on the job and just not do any work.

My mother taught me that when making gravy, in which you are mixing a small amount of solids (flour) into liquid, it works better to use a figure 8 pattern. This also works when the proportions are reversed, as with a can of soup dumped into a pot for heating.

Just last year Alice Hoffman published a prequel, “Magic Lessons”, about that very ancestress. It is excellent. Be sure to read the other prequel, “The Rules of Magic”, which is about the aunts when they were young, and I am eagerly awaiting “The Book of Magic” which centers on Sally’s now grown daughters. Many of Hoff…

So it’s safe for pregnant men too?

Especially if she starts to turn surly.

The husband of a Dutch friend of mine was in Parliament for a while and got to meet their queen at a reception. They were served sherry but Her Majesty confided that she would have preferred a gin. I can understand it. All that smiling and looking at things and smiling. You might as well be a little buzzed.

Hey, if you’re on a shit tonne of meds you might as well have a drink.

I’ve never watched this show, but when I came across the season premiere last night I was immediately taken in by the sheer poetry of the lines. Virtually every sentence uttered meant something else.

This is a song for which there is probably no recording anywhere, but I heard this at a concert of feminist music, opening for Chris Williamson or Margie Adam in the early Eighties. It was sung by a chorus from Boston.

I might re-try “Britannia”, as it’s an interest of mine, bt it was awfuly gory. (Oh, too bad.) I want to try Germany’s “Barbarians” - the Romans speak Latin and the Germanic tribespeople apparently speak a sort of Proto-Germanic.

In my house the original formica-topped kitchen cabinet base stood in the dining room just outside the kitchen door. It was an extension of the kitchen, holding the Cusinart, casserole dishes, medicinal herbs, seldom-used utensils. Eventually I got tired of it and moved everything inside to other places, but I do keep…

Here’s a point to ponder: 15 or 16 is too young to be charged as an adult but it’s old enough to be entrusted with operating an supersized vehicle on a public road.

Um... those folks are not Amish. I expect it will go downhill from there.

Harold and Maude: it’s Ruth Gordon, not Ruth Roman!!

I thought it was Ashley Judd. Was she supposed to play Arwen?

I started reading Dune sometime in the early 70s but it quickly got too lurid for me.

Can you fake it with Kool-Ade and salt?