Also, Coffee and Pears

Prize winners for today:

1.) The trees on my street, for combating homesickness with colors rivaling New Hampshire's.

Not pictured: the glorious crunch of stepped-upon leaves.

2.) New Kitten, for finally settling on a name. Allow me to introduce Marlowe:

Pictured: uncharacteristic stillness

Yeah, that's more like it.

Named in the tradition of both the Dr. Faustus author/possible spy/Elizabethan bar brawler and Raymond Chandler's tough guy private eye (represented in film by Humphrey Bogart and Elliott Gould). I firmly believe that cat names should contain multifaceted allusions.


3.) Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Alec Baldwin, who have my sincerest congratulations.

Ginger Brew

I have another job. This one entails, more or less, continuing as "The Voice of HPNL".*  No word yet on whether this will include a cape and a mysterious alcove.

I'll have stories about film archives, webpage building and library politics, but for now here are some things made possible by wages:

Orchid Bell

Wrapt

Eee! (The shelter calls him Garfield, but I call him Cicero)

*Videos 2 and 3. Video 4 is in the works, about Boolean.