A Favorite

1980, baby (Italo-Frivalo Disco):



AND the remix!, which is pretty awesome too (with a killer bass-line--- it just throbs):



Still waiting for the publisher and those readers who are hard at work (and no doubt very very busy) to give word on the manuscript. La la la wait la la la wait wait and wait some more. la!

Latest News on the Book is...

...that there is none. Four months the manuscript has been gone and it has been in the hands of readers all this time. I am to hear something "any day now", which has been the state of play for a month. Sigh. In other news, I am putting the finishing touches on an article on the Emperor Julian so while the march of scholarship is bottled up in a big way in one spot, it at least is continuing elsewhere. At present, teaching is fun if a little insane. We are missing people and those who are still around have to take up the slack. I am sleeping well, that's for sure. Back at the gym now too and I am slowly but noticeably getting back into better shape. More later? Perhaps.

This is Fun

Some License Plates

Xmas shots... at home and out and about

Trip to South Island--- Final Photo Installment

Sergiu Celibidache Cake!!







Puzzlings.

























Moonlight (really!)-- maybe it just too lame a picture...



Lower tide--- we drove on this road to the west coast of the south island






and then we came back the way we had come and the tide was higher:

Trip South: Second Batch of Pictures

Still in Christchurch. See if you can spot the rose amid the thorns.