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Welcome to my Web site. My name is Chris, and I'll be your host. I live in Austin, Texas, with my partner, Ray, and our child dog, Mocha. You can read more about me, learn 100 random things about me, and if you're wondering what the heck a khowaga is, click here. Feel free to browse, read, and leave comments!

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Alan Rickman’s Answering Machine

OK, not the life-altering year-end post I was envisioning … that’ll come later.  Ray and I watched Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince last night, and I noticed a couple of things.  First off, the cinematography is gorgeous.  Maybe it was because we’d seen Avatar earlier in the day that I noticed it –the [...]

Cures and Diseases

The doctor’s office is decorated in a style that is more reminiscent of the sitcom Newhart.  The wood trim is oak, highlighted with brass chrome.  The wallpaper is a narrow stripe pattern that alternates between midnight blue, brick red, and kelly green.  The seating is a beige sectional sofa that is low to the floor [...]

A week’s worth of parental visits

‘Tis a beautiful spring day, it is. The sun is shining, the birds are being chased away by the grackles (a particularly vicious sort of bird we have here in Austin that doesn’t play well with others), the bees are buzzing about in the garden (thus preventing me from weeding, since stinging insects are [...]

Same old, same old

I’ve been feeling uninspired lately, like my life is stuck in a bit of a rut. To some degree, it is — it’s late spring and for the first year since 2002, I’m not gearing up for some massive summer project that is taking up my time and energy. I’m trying not to [...]

About the Banner: Cairo

Time for another about the banner column.

The original picture is here:

Here’s the short version: this is the Egyptian Heritage Tannoura Dance Troup performing one of its twice weekly public shows — at this time, they were on the Cairo Citadel, but have since returned to the wikala of Sultan al-Ghori in the old [...]