Time flies when you’re having fun, they say, and even when you’re not. And the year 2008 has flown by, all except a mere handful of hours. ...

Photo by Tanty ( Stavanger Daily Photo ) At Oxford, on pastoral lawns, Fergus wanted to bugger the swans. Said the loyal hall porter, O, ple...

“Did everything come out all right?” “Oh, yeah. Everything came out, all right.” This morning, I underwent my little once-every-five-year p...

Ornate glass punchbowl and cups. What’s missing? Among the saddest things Of which I’ve ever heard, Is that there exists a Punchbowl That i...

Long-time Esteemed Readers - and fans of gluttony gourmandise in general - will remember the infamous Aubrey/Maturin Dinner Houston Steve ...

The lights of the Chanukiyah - the eight-branched menorah designed especially for the Festival of Rededication - cast a warm glow, as if to ...

It’s almost time for my procedure. Once you get to be my age, it’s something you gotta do. Every five years, like clockwork. I hate it. Lo...

Haveil Havalim - the Jewish Carnival of the Vanities - is up at Material Maidel . It’s edition number 198 of this venerable collection of ...

What with the recent succession of economic crises - collapses in subprime mortgage lending, investment banking, and the stock market; the M...

Baby. Sad news from Sissy Willis : Baby has entered the realm of the Light Fantastic. I never got to see the Babe in person - alas - but he ...

Yesterday, She Who Must Be Obeyed and I had a few errands to run in midtown Atlanta. We had to make a stop at Star Provisions, a fancy-pants...

It’s Friday. Not just any Friday, but the last Friday of 2008...which makes this the last Friday Random Ten post of the year. Whoop-de-do....

Hakuna shares rug space with the Computer d’Elisson. What with all the work on our floors this past week, many of our possessions have been ...

Not for us, Lord , not for us But for Yourself win praise through Your love and faithfulness. Why should the nations say, “Where is their Go...

One of my personal frustrations during the Holiday Season is what I call asymmetrical musical juxtaposition . That’s a lot of fifty-cent wo...

...can sometimes reside in a single personality. Witness our niece Madison, who at the ripe age of two embodies both the most angelic and th...

Before the Carpet Installers yanked the carpet out of our bedroom last week, we had to remove all of the books, knick-knacks, bric-a-brac, p...

William and daddy Morris William. Yesterday, in preparation for the annual Momma d’Elisson Memorial Chanukah Dinner, She Who Must Be Obeyed ...

[If Dear Abby can get away with reprinting the same frickin’ Holiday Columns every stinking year, why not Blog d’Elisson? We are therefore ...

This time of year, many of us spend inordinate amounts of time shopping for gifts, impelled by both the spirit of the Christmas season (and ...