A rather fuzzy photo of my dear Hamlette, aged about 3 weeks and just arrived home.

All grown up and QUEEN OF THE WHEEL.  (Note the cardboard tube used as a wedge to hold it still so she can climb it.  CLEVER suicidal hamster!!)

Don't ask.

Don't tell.

(Beer and Meat party while housesitting for Susan - August 2004)

Christians for Peace in Iraq, with whom I marched at the 500,000-person-strong march in NYC on the Saturday before the Republican National Convention.

Standing outside the convention centre, a block away from Fox News headquarters, all of us chanting "FOX NEWS SUCKS!!" ...

Good times.

New Year's Eve, 2004/05, at Dan's place in Brooklyn.

Margaret and Catherine have a few vodkas and hold forth on matters of great importance.

Margaret and the not-dead hamster, the weekend of the frozen pipes and the near-death-of-rodent experience.

(Margaret suddenly decides to use the third person.)

Half of the "Media and Politics" panel at the Conference on British Politics and Culture at UC Berkeley.

There was a foot of snow on the ground in New Jersey that weekend.

Aaaaand a week and a half later, we're here.

Please tell me you know what this is.

I was in the country for 48 hours, including a six-hour interview, dinner with Xander, and a whirlwind tour of the old neighbourhood, before heading back to get one day of rest before the ...

Mad, bad, and dangerous to know ...

From L: Nichole as Lucifer, Jamey as Dick Turpin, and Stephanie as Lord Byron.

Margaret's friends (left) ... and family (right).

Leah as (sort of ) the Marquis de Sade's feminine side, and Grace as Lizzie Bennett.

"My conqueror of Persia can be beautiful, Alexander."

Me as Haephaistion.

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."  And some of us ... aren't.

Dan as Lord Darlington.

I'm not sure I'm technically supposed to post photos of the kids, but this is the baby.  She's a girl, she'd just wearing her brother's old clothes.

The cemetery at Gettysburg.  Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg address about a hundred feet to the right of this photo.

Random film-wasting shot of me in Palmer Square that actually turned out pretty well.