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Spring Forward! Fall Further and Further Behind!
I suppose you’re referring to Daylight Savings Time. I am, and its return always sparks joy, although I’d be hard-pressed to tell you why. It seems to promise extra hours, but I’ve never been able to find more than the usual twenty-four in a day. And even those hours...
Beyond Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming…
There's been a fair amount of media attention paid lately to the decisions of the estates of both Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming to make extensive edits to their respective bodies of work with an eye toward improving passages that might strike a contemporary reader as...
Where’d You Go, January???
LB’s Groundhog Day Newsletter— WHERE’D YOU GO, JANUARY??? You know, the year’s first month did hurry by. It’s hard to believe it’s a new month already, and one that’s shorter than January by three days, so it’ll be gone in nothing flat, and—I guess I’m getting ahead...
Brand New Year! Brand New Sletter!
David Trevor here, charged with composing LB’s first newsletter of 2023, and I may have made a mistake already in that header. I'll leave it and hope it looks intentional, like those carpet weavers. Because only LB is perfect, right? And it's not like I asked for...