Pic pick: "It comes in pints?"

Just an ordinary little pub we wandered into while visiting London and Oxford this past September:

And now I'm off to San Francisco again for several days. Probably no posts until I get back. Cheers!

I see dead people - lots and lots of dead people

During our trip to London last month, Elizabeth and I strolled through Highgate Cemetery, the Halloweeniest of them all.

A movie reference!

Naturally I left a pen at Douglas Adams' site.

Flickr photo set here.

London bound again

... for a week-and-change of jaunting and gallivanting with Elizabeth and a friend, taking in some theater, and getting a spot of work done on a writing project (or two). A change of socks, my iPad — there, packing's all done. If any of my London readers care for a meet-up, feel welcome to email me via the address on the image you see here.

That's "Air Commodore" Bourne to you, mate

Next month, Elizabeth and I will be spending a week and a half in London. A pleasure trip with some business mixed in, I hope.

On our itinerary is catching the current production of Dr. Faustus at Shakespeare's Globe. Last night we secured our tickets well in advance. (Good thing too, as those tickets are moving like a bat out of Mephistopheles' front door.)  In so doing, we registered a new account at the Globe's website. There I noticed the dropdown list of titles/honorifics you can choose to apply to your name. No big deal, lots of sites have such a list. Yes, they do. Nonetheless, this was their list:

Elizabeth is now, I believe, Countess of Seattle.



Yep, that's Arthur Darvill, Doctor Who's serially deceased "Rory Williams" as Mephistopheles. And may I say, Oh hell yeah.

Happy solstice, whatever your hemisphere

With Elizabeth at the Prime Meridian marker, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London. Nov. 2004.