Wes Phillips

Now, <I>this</I> is revenge served cold!

You can make an omelet out of an egg, but you can't make an egg out of an omelet. Sean Carroll finds this almost strange, because "the fundamental laws of physics themselves are symmetric and don't seem to discriminate between the past and future."

The brouhaha over Bob Dylan's recent <I>Rolling Stone</I> interview surprised me. Dylan cryptic, caustic, and cranky? What a shock. Has he ever held a straightforward interview where he kept on topic? Louis Menand reviews <I>Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews</I>.

No, wait&mdash;what I meant to say was, nowadays everybody <I>thinks</I> they're speaker designers.

What do paleontologists do?<BR>
When they're in the field with their crew?<BR>
The digger when he's failing?<BR>
The geologist when she's glum?<BR>
The site carpenter who's wailing?<BR>
From nailing<BR>
His thumb?<BR>
When they're beset and besmirched<BR>
The folk most involved in research<BR>
However do they manage<BR>
To shed their weary lot?<BR>
Oh, what do paleontologists do<BR>
We do not?

And his mom, of course&mdash;and the upcoming movie. <I>The Virginia Quarterly</I>, which is rapidly becoming my favorite periodical, published Ellroy's afterword to the new edition of <I>The Black Dahlia</I>.

Damn straight! <I>Hic!</I>