November 2008
My room - annotated. →
Here’s a Flickr set with some crappy pictures of my bedroom, including notes about just about every item that you can see.
“A song like “Shackler’s Revenge” is initially average, until...”
– Chuck Kloserman (…reviews Chinese Demoracy)
“…and NASA mission controllers expressed confidence that the lost tool bag...”
– http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/space/11/18/endeavour.spacewalk/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
“…not be too much of a problem…”
Uh, I’d feel a lot better if they had simply said “…not be a problem…”
Captain Buzzkill
What do you expect when going to see a Bond film?
I want to see one man eliminate an entire army using only his bow-tie and a dirty sock. I want to see that same man convince perfect strangers, by only glancing in their general direction, to join him for a romp in the sack. I want to see innocent civilians killed without it becoming an alternate plot line. I want to see explosions and chases...
A girl and her dog.
Sometime in the spring or summer of 2007 is when I first noticed her. I was 27 at the time and it was the first time I had seen someone my age walking around my neighborhood. It’s a cookie-cutter suburban housing development, like so many thousands that sprang up across America in the Fifties and Sixties: carved into what used to be a forest, houses of 4 or 5 different designs scattered...
Autumn Frost
I just arrived home from a Halloween party. I played my usual role of D³ (Designated Designated-Driver) while the rest of the cast enjoyed themselves. That’s not to say that I didn’t (don’t) have fun, because I did (do), but those rides home are never lacking in interesting post-party conversation among the non-sober folk. I generally stay quiet and drive.
As I stepped out of...