RatBoy - an online little magazine

alicublog: LETTERS FROM REPENTHOUSE GOES BIG-TIME! :  Here at alicublog we've been having fun for years with Rod Dreher's Letters to...

Fitzmas it is , and I can only hope that those lines from Scooter to Judy [pdf - see p.2] back in September, 2005, might mean a gift that k...

Poking the snout out to find shadowlands deserted, the scent of hyacinths around every supermarket, and shoves from New Blogger at my butt,...

Awake & Sing 

So, can't fucking believe it's been a month since the last post. Haven't been snoozing so much as reacclimating to a more norm...

Roy , I am in your debt (and Digby saw it first, for me). It's so odd; people who will kick you into the gutter - for your own good, o...

It Makes the World Go 'Round..... 

This is not something I have wanted to do , but immediate circumstances - medical, job gap, maintaining minimal connection with the world ( ...

Onward & Upward 

We lost one of our dearest friends this week, my extended family in Los Angeles. He selected the date and time, and, in consultation with t...

Borromini - the Baroque Curve 

1983...1986, 1987... In the sequestered week I described just below , I finished Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty , a book I pounc...

Run for the Exits - and Watch Out for That Right Eyebrow...!

If this was a conspiracy , it was one of Events. A death, a dislocation, a disconnection (very much in descending order of importance), whil...