I have wondered for a long time what Pabst Blue Ribbon tasted like. I'd like to think I am some sort of beer snob, but how can you know good beer if you have never tasted the contrary? Also it seems like if I am going to be a student, I need to drink a student beer. The desire to try Natural Ice hasn't quite got to me, though. I do believe I ( Read more... )

The idea of becoming a lawyer certainly has a romantic appeal for me, but there are a number of logistical difficulties.  The main one being the distance from here to a law school, of which there are only apparently three in Tennessee.  I didn't look much at Memphis, as that is far too distant, but the other two are the University of Tennessee ( Read more... )

A book that I wish I had that was left in Calgary was a book by famed genre author Orson Scott Card about writing. In it he said that the only difference between science fiction and fantasy is that in one you pushed a button to fire a laser, and in the other you waved a magic wand to shoot a lightning bolt. This isn't strictly true, although I ( Read more... )

So I come back from my vacation, to find myself with a new trainee. He is one of the most opinionated and right-wing types I have ever talked seriously too. Actually, we didn't get as much done last night as I would have liked due to talking. It is sort of funny to see the issues we agree on and disagree on. He is a strident Catholic, and has ( Read more... )

One strange thing also that I noticed right away while in Canada was the wierd obsession with Paris Hilton. I have been critical of the obession with celebrities in general for a long time now, but the idea that someone outside this country gave two shits about Paris Hilton cause me to trip a brain breaker. Several people I talked too were busy ( Read more... )

Our car trip from Chattanooga to Montreal and back went better than we expected. The audiobook and Red Bull one-two punch did wonders to get me through the night. Traveling at night is awesome, it's just you and the big rigs out there. We ran into very little traffic on our way there and back. On the way back we started at nine pm and I did ( Read more... )

The new Smashing Pumpkins song is kind of crummy. I guess that's what happens when you try to resurrect your band after a lacklustre solo career and new band. So now we get Billy Corgan plus the drummer as the new Smashing Pumpkins, with a generic metaly sound overpowering Corgan's vocals. Blech ( Read more... )

It would appear that there will be another little rogue joining our band sometime around the end of this year, beginning of the next. We really didn't expect it so soon, but are as prepared as we can be. Molly is becoming more and more trouble as she gets older. We went to Florida and she decided to master the art of pulling up on things. We ( Read more... )

You can't beat Coast to Coast AM as third shift entertainment. Every night I am assaulted by an host of ideas, from real to plausible to crazy. Mostly crazy. But it can be a sort of disarmingly sincere crazy. Apparently some people have an odd dream and think "boy, that was an odd dream!" while some people think "Ohmygod, I was abducted by ( Read more... )

As a guy, and especially as the world's biggest proponent of Rogues and Rogue Issues, it is only natural that I would be a fan of the CIA, and the legends surrounding that organization. Some stories of the CIA are like the mighty Ninja, shrouded in an unrealistic glamour of insidious competency. A lot of people see the current administration in ( Read more... )