One of my friends on LJ recently mentioned censorship and made the distinction between moral censorship, which is always bad, and military censorship, which is bad but occasionally necessary. I don't know that I accept that military censorship is ever good, either. I talked briefly with someone else about it and because this kind of conversation ( Read more... )

I still haven't ridden in the rain. A couple of times it's threatened to rain but didn't actually rain while I was riding. I'm sorry looking to get some riding in the rain to know what it feels like, but it keeps not doing it!

I've started doing a lot more cardio in my workout because of a dream. I know that sounds a little weird, but recently I've been having vivid dreams of the very short period of time where I jogged. It was about seven months when I was fourteen and fifteen and I stopped because we moved and I find that I am extremely sensitive to disruptions in my ( Read more... )

So, a couple of weeks ago, I came out of my yearly battle with seasonal affective disorder. Now that I am aware of it . . . I am horrified at how much it has ruled my life without knowing about it. I have no idea how much of my fuck-upperies are the result of SAD, but my thought is, "Quite a few".

Mind you, I'm managing it much better, now, than ( Read more... )

This is so dear that I must post it. I got this from a Dane. Apparently, even most Scandinavians are horrified at traditional Icelandic "cuisine", hehe.

I stopped GMing a pseudo-Ravenloft game several months ago, and now I'm going back and looking at my notes and going, "What is all this stuff!" That is all. ;)

Written last night, posted today:

One of my friends posted a link to a site that I thought would be a parody of commercials and I went there to laugh at some funny videos. There were some. But then I got to Reality TV “Brat” Sues ABC for $100 Million. I started to watch it and thought that it must be a parody but I checked the Wife Swap ( Read more... )

My tastes in comic books are very plebian (shocker, right?), I like superheroes and horror comics. The biggest problem I have with superhero comic books is the nationalism and militarism. I feel they quite often go beyond merely confidence that the American way of life is best for America and into the realm of the American way of life is good for ( Read more... )

J. D. Salinger is dead and I find I have a little to say. To wit - I don't like Catcher in the Rye. I tried reading it when I was young and something about it made me put it down. Then, later, when I was more experienced I managed to finish it and was able to identify my annoyance. Catcher in the Rye seems to me to be a story about rebellion ( Read more... )

Becky, a friend of mine, fairly recently opined that people like meat more because few people take the time to prepare vegetables as elaborately. She made the point that most of us prepare vegetables by, y'know, steaming them and maybe throwing on a little butter or salt or something similarly basic. That's . . . often true. We don't put as much ( Read more... )