Wes Phillips

In yesterday's philippic">http://blog.stereophile.com/wesphillips/011307ces/">philippic about CES's petty annoyances, I said that I continue to be a recidivist in spite of them. The reason? Pretty much that the high-end portion of the industry remains a fascinating, personal, and essentially civilized place.

It must be the week after the Consumer Electronics Show: I'm all written out on consumer electronics, my feet hurt, and I have a cold. All three happen every year.

Why off to CES2008, of course. Check out Stereophile's coverage at our Show">http://blog.stereophile.com/ces2008/">Show blog.

On Christmas day, my friend, the Nuyorican goddess Liz Ramirez-Weaver saw me looking at Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. "It's good," she said. "You should borrow it."

Sometimes, Huckleberry simply has to take the high ground and brood. Well, it looks like brooding, but he's not deep, that cat. He's probably thinking How did I get here? How do I get down? What was that middle thing again?

The Economist has an uncredited article about great">http://www.economist.com/world/europe/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_id=1027… charts. They're all familiar to readers of Edward Tufte's The Visual Display of Quantative Information, but they are great charts.

For a cat who only drinks water, Huckleberry certainly does a passable imitation of a drunken stupor.