I have a friend on Facebook who is one of those friends that is really just someone I knew once and was acquainted with. I went to high school with her and haven't said word one to her since I graduated, so it's been some seven years. This morning, she put up a YouTube video of a poet reading a work about 9/11 and commented about how emotional ( Read more... )

True Blood is Twilight for grown-ups.

[x] Taught in college course.

If we are living in a proto-cyberpunk age, which I aver we are, based on the prevalence of the internet and web-based technologies, the virulence of high-tech screens in modern society, an uprise in biometrics, the bleeding edge of bionic technologies (what with eyes, arms, and legs), and the presence of such colloquial technologies at even the ( Read more... )

I love the smell of my own body odor. It's like some sort of jerky or sausage or something.

A string theorist walks into a bar. The bartender asks "What's shaking?" and the theorist says "Everything."

They play old-time baseball, don't they? I want to start an old-time football league, although this would probably be "medieval football". All we need are a couple of hundred ruffians, an inflated pig bladder, and a pre-industrial slum. We will play in Rwanda.

Or, as it is sometimes also known, Oh, Wait, I Was Thinking of The Descent. It's a Cole Hauser vehicle, which should tell you everything you need to know. It has some similarity to Pitch Black, and it's biggest problem is its sheer blandness.

( Here I go again, on my own. )

I've been reading Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum of late. It's been described as the "thinking man's The DaVinci Code", and I have to say it's one of the most intelligent novels I've ever read, although that could be because it's full of esoteric references to hermetic lore and a a bunch of jargon. It's a library book, and there are occasional ( Read more... )

Slightly edited for ease of reading.

D-Bag Jones: I'm looking at what to do with my life after Afghanistan. Stay in/ Get out, and if I get out, what to do.
Cap'n Steve: You could open a shop.
DBJ: What kind of shop?
CS: A meat shop, but not a butcher's.
DBJ: So, meat in general? but uncut?
CS: No, you wouldn't cut the meat yourself. Imagine a ( Read more... )