Lately I've been ruminating on why I care so little for most popular culture. I don't go to movies, I don't follow a lot of webcomics/commentaries, I haven't watched television except when unavoidable for over 30 years and I've generally evaded a lot of common cultural experiences. Most of what I know is from reading, hearing what my friends are ( Read more... )

Me behave? As a child I saw Tarzan almost naked, Cinderella arrived home after midnight, Pinocchio told lies, Aladdin was a thief, Batman drove over 200 miles an hour, Snow White lived in a house with 7 men, Popeye smoked a pipe and had tattoos, Pac Man ran around to digital music while eating pills that enhanced his performance, and Shaggy and ( Read more... )

If you don't believe in Hell why are you condemning someone's eternal soul to torment there? You might as well damn them to Candyland. You don't believe in that either.

Posting late at night is only a bad idea if you don't think you'll be willing to acknowledge what you wrote the next day, right? So, I game and part of the experience is being on Ventrilo (Vent) a real-time VOIP chat channel. It has been most educational to be a "fly on the wall" and to hear how gaming guys talk about stuff. I used to think ( Read more... )

One of the great things about therapy is that an outsider assesses your issues without your baggage. I have finally resolved my special order angst! I am very pleased as this is a major step forward in enjoying my business again ( Read more... )

Hello again out there. I've decided that my self-imposed silence is over and I'm ready to return to being (somewhat) more social. I had cogent reasons for being quiet but I'm done now ( Read more... )

Now that I'm better (having smothered whatever the hell it was with a metric butt-tonload of pills) life had started to get back to normal. Sort of ( Read more... )

I have been ill with massive creeping coughing of DOOM! I talk not; it hurts. I type desultorily; that's okay. I'm so tired of being sick. . .fortunately the doctor says I have another week at most ( Read more... )

So, I read the news and today I came across this article in the LA Times http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-fat-fatigue1-2010feb01,0,1902979.storyRead more... )

So, next Tuesday I embark again on a spending spree to buy yet more tiny pieces of crystallized dirt. Yay ( Read more... )