davidgagne.net — The personal weblog of David Vincent Gagne

One Time Too Many

One Time Too Many – PJ Harvey

Follow Me Here …

Eliot at Follow Me Here … gave me kudos for helping him reformat his Blogger templates and css so that they would validate. I’m not really *that* altruistic. He was using a table-based design and because of the many images in his sidebar it took forever for me to load his page on my slow

William Shatner weblog

William Shatner … has … a blog. I wonder if … that’s really … him writing! link via andrewsullivan.com

Ending Lists

On list groupings and the correct use of commas

Six Month Anniversary of September 11, 2001

So it’s been six months now. I’m still thinking about what I said when it had been one week. It’s very strange to look at posts pre-9/11 and try to imagine what I was thinking when I wrote them. What world was that? Such an odd date – 09/11/2001 – has suddenly become the temporal

“My grandmother was 81, she died at home in her bed, with her daughter holding her hand. It wasn’t a prolonged illness, but at the same time we had enough warning that we were all able to say our goodbyes. Honestly, I can’t think of a better way to go. Well, maybe some sort of elaborate mass suicide involving fireworks and showgirls and drugs and showgirls on drugs, and maybe showgirls on drugs on fire. Ooh, yeah, flaming showgirls! But back to my original point. The funeral provided …”
from (un)Lovely

Interesting Books

Reading and reading and reading

Every time you masturbate, God kills a kitten.

If you need a really good Saturday morning laugh, I have something that will surely get a giggle. (PG-13)

Chased by a Boeing Helicopter

A rather odd thing happened to me on my way to the theater Friday night. I was chased by a helicopter. Yes. I know that sounds odd. Imagine – just for a second – how odd it would feel to drive several miles with a helicopter about two car lengths behind you and only about

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.