Archives for January 23, 2006

I came back from New Haven long enough to take my ailing computer to the shop, then hit the road again for Chicago. Since then Our Girl and I have been tearing around town for the past couple of days, seeing shows of various kinds–I’ll let her tell you all about it the first chance she gets. I’ll be back in New York some time on Tuesday, and I hope I’ll be plugging back into the ‘sphere fairly shortly thereafter, equipment permitting. Meanwhile, go visit some of those other cool blogs listed in “Sites to See.”

Not much later.

“‘I know most men go in for love affairs,’ he said. ‘Some of them can’t help it. They can’t get on at all without women, but there are plenty of others–I daresay you haven’t come across them much–who don’t really care about that sort of thing, but they don’t know any reason why they shouldn’t, so they spend half their lives going after women they don’t really want. I can tell you something you probably don’t know. There are men who have been great womanizers in their time and when they get to my age and don’t want it any more and in fact can’t do it, instead of being glad of a rest, what do they do but take all kinds of medicines to make them want to go on? I’ve heard fellows in my club talking about it.'”

Evelyn Waugh, Sword of Honour

The Wall Street Journal has posted a free link to my latest “Sightings” column (it’s about the return of the e-book). To read it, go here.