I think my first copy (and it's possible I am still on my first copy. Many of the books I love most, though, I've loved so much they fell to pieces, prompting me to purchase new copies to tear apart. I know I'm on my third copy of Ender's Game at the very least) was a gift from my brother to my father. He, unfortunately, is an avid reader of non- ( Read more... )

I've been writing this post in my head for a long time. Weeks and months perhaps. I've been debating with myself about wording, about trying to strike a balance between candidly talking about what is going on with me without giving the impression that I am attempting to evoke sympathy. The latest news about it, though, has brought the situation to ( Read more... )

So, a general update for all of those still into the whole lj thing on what has been going on in my life. I will preface this whole thing by saying that my typing skills have deteriorated over the last year or so of inaction in the social schema. I am trying my best to catch all of my mis-types but if some slip through, fuck me ( Read more... )

I've figured out why all the fuckers I work with are broke. The minimum for an iphone, for one month is 75.00. For one month. Every month. For two years.

/jaw drops

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In an effort to combat the stunning sense of entropy that has taken over my life, where I have become too much of an internet lurker, I am attempting to up my internet presence. I know that the interactions I will be having via the interweb are not an adequate substitute for real life, face to face interactions, but have a need to write coupled ( Read more... )

When I first read The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, my first thought upon finishing it was that I wanted, more than anything, to read The Golem, the two-thousand plus pages silent comic book that Joe Kavalier worked on during his self imposed exile to the seventy-second floor of the Empire State Building. The book was about jewishness, ( Read more... )

Before I really start this off, I need to say as an aside, Grizzly Bear's "Little Brother (Electric)" is the motherfucking jam for this summer. A video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7-I4-NJr4w (I don't know how to make pretty links in LJ, but trust me, it is a ( Read more... )

Erin and I got to gabbin about god last night as we were falling asleep. She was her voicing her opinion on that seemingly all-important question, "Is there a God" when I realized that I hadn't asked that question in far too long. Further, I haven't been asking questions about the ostensible nature of anything that exists outside of myself. I would ( Read more... )

So, as if nostalgia hasn't been rearing its head nearly enough lately, I took some time today to look through (almost) all of my notebooks/legal pads from my college years that I have squirreled away in boxes (I'm a packrat, did you know that?) and i have come to the inescapable conclusion that I need to go the fuck back to fucking tacoma and ( Read more... )