It's slightly possible that I have too much time on my hands. Actually, they may have been the case for a long time.

As evidenced by this 2006 entry, sometimes I find a spot in my schedule to email a large corporation about a slightly less-than-egregious wrong on their part. In the former case, it was my beloved Taco Bell that failed to give my ( Read more... )

I'm a big fan of movies like "Snatch" that bring together several parallel storylines for a satisfying conclusion. Paul Auster's novel "The Book of Illusions" is a masterful literary example ( Read more... )

If you're driving at night, it's generally a good idea to have your headlights on. But once you arrive at a destination it's an equally good idea to turn them off. Otherwise bored people such as myself may take a picture of your illuminated front end and write about it on the internets ( Read more... )

Sometimes I surprise even myself. Yesterday I posted saying it would be a day or two before I got to writing about Number 15 on the list, really thinking it would be more like four days ( Read more... )

John Steinbeck is a MILF. That's Man of Impeccable Literary Fantasticness; get your head out of the gutter. He's also a guy with an ability to predict the future ( Read more... )

English teachers are great. But sometimes the "rules" have to be broken and writers who realize that right have a special place in my literary heart ( Read more... )

I know you've been clamoring for updates on The Year of Books or Year of Reading or whatever it is I dubbed my quest to read 20 books this year. Well sometimes life gets in the way of your best intentions. That is not to say I gave up, but rather didn't have a chance to chronicle the latest ones. Between seemingly simultaneous trips, ending an ( Read more... )

The weather today was rainy and a bit dismal, so much so that I didn't even want to go outside for a run. But that didn't stop at least one Obama supporter from manning a corner down the street from my house.

On my way to dinner I stopped for gas where I saw this. Her sign said "Make Democracy Count: Vote Obama." I'm sure there were McCain ( Read more... )

I know you're thinking that November 4 is a big day in deciding the future of America. There's this whole presidential election that will either put Sen. John McCain or Sen. Barack Obama in the White House come January. But I'm afraid that no matter what happens in Decision '08, the next generation's fate is already sealed ( Read more... )

Two in one day? I know you're asking yourself how you could possibly be so amazingly lucky. Well, thanks to some vacation days from The Local Station, I have been able to sleep like a normal person for several nights in a row. Somnia=productivity. Check that. Slumber=productivity. Apparently "somnia" means "a sick man's dreams," not the ( Read more... )