The League of Ordinary Gentlemen

On Monday we glued up the tillers. On Tuesday we finished up the foam-core laminated tops to the deck houses, the finally pieces that close in the hulls. Today we unclamped the tillers and shaped them, trimmed and filleted the deckhouses, and laid fairing compound (the dark red stuff) on about 40% of the decks on both hulls. Tomorrow we’ll glass the deckhouses and Friday we’ll finish fairing. And then sometime over the Memorial Day weekend we’re going to roll ...

I’m proud to say that I’ve made a conscious effort to avoid the blow-by-blow of the Presidential horse race this year.  In fact, I’ve spent more time – a combined 5 minutes – watching actual horse racing in the last month than I’ve spent watching the political equivalent; I find it leaves me feeling less dirty. The brouhaha over Cory Booker epitomizes why. Here’s what I’ve gathered about the situation: apparently, Obama’s campaign released an ad attacking Mitt Romney’s background ...

1. In a land not much unlike our own there is an ether that comes from a rare fruit. Those who consume this ether are consumed by it, as its effect is total regurgitation of one’s mental faculties, and, by this I mean mental faculties one doesn’t know one has, like memories long forgotten but embedded in the neurofabric, or epiphanies waiting to happen or not happen that get suddenly thrown outwards into the world. Depending on the brain, the ...