book read

Alexander McCall Smith, 44 Scotland Street. No spoilers.
As Armistead Maupin to San Francisco, so AMS to Edinburgh. He admits in the foreword it's a deliberate homage. First appeared in a newspaper, The Scotsman. Episodic, decent bus reading. Many POV characters, more than half of whom I find annoying, and even I (with my limited knowledge of Scotland) feel like he's painting broad stereotypes. Does not actually have a resolution of most story lines; presumably they published it as a book because it had reached a certain page quota? I gather the serial in the paper is ongoing. Note: Amazon and professional reviews describe it as full of wry humor with endearing characters, so maybe you'll like it more than me.

Today's Sesame Street earworm: Fuzzy and Blue, by Grover, Herry Monster, and Cookie Monster. Beats the hell out of the Wubba Wubba song.

Grandparents seem to be doing well with Casper. Grandpa is especially pleased as she is a snuggly sort and so is he (and his other grandchildren are not).

fandom note

This will probably be my only one of the year, as I am among the unfannish, but it amuses me so much that most of my invisible friends, who mostly came together because of Buffy fannishness, have now fallen into one of four sets of active fandoms, about all of which I know almost nothing: manga, USian superhero comics, Sci-Fi Fridayish television, and baseball. And almost no overlap - I can think of very few people I know who are deeply interested in more than one of these. How we have scattered!