Amazed to Learn . . .
that Under the Volcano was a bestseller.
(I started a side project over at LiveJournal the idea of which was to record a single thought, as pithily as possible, each day, the sort of thing more hip-and-with-it people do on Twitter. [I've been playing around there, too.] The every day part of that project has fallen by the wayside, and my partner in blockhead suggested in no uncertain terms that it would be a good idea to fold that project into this one, so I have. Today's post is the first instance of that infolding. More such one-liners will follow, perhaps.)