This is partly because I am sick of how TV and movies seem full of them at times, but mostly because the idea of someone who is really most sincerely dead returning to life is nonsensical and impossible in real, er, life ( Read more... )

Well, maybe fiction writers can but I don't bother when I have creepy ol' Reality making it up for me. The dialog was branded on my brain so it is as close to what was spoken as I can make it, with slight editing for space ( Read more... )

js_africanus sent me a reminder that I haven't updated this in a year. Honestly, I was letting it die quietly, but who am I to deny my public ( Read more... )

I pass by a slough behind a Nissan dealership every morning and for about two weeks it had about a dozen great white egrets working the shallows. They fished it out and moved on but it was a graphic reminder of how I had never seen one until a few years ago, and I spent much of my youth either living in the country or camping every month ( Read more... )

I don't have the highest opinion of my own schmarts so when something is patently obvious to me my default position toward anybody who sees it differently is that he is a blithering idiot. (shrug) It doesn't reflect well on me and hasn't served me well but if I keep my mouth shut at least I don't get punched ( Read more... )

Mules face off in race of the clones. Genetically identical runners will test nature vs. nurture. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12955941/?GT1=8199(rubbing my temples in annoyance) Apparently we've returned to 1935 or are reliving "Trading Places." Anyone with twins--or, for ( Read more... )

I can see both sides of the arguments for and against Margaret Atwood's "LongPen" that allows her to autograph books from quite a long distance away. My only objection is her statement, "Our generation invented the Book Tour, and now we are paying for it." While I realize Ms Atwood is not as young as as you or I but I had no idea she was a ( Read more... )

Or at least turn down your ringer ( Read more... )

We were at Denny's and a table of Goths was next to us. I rarely go there but had some gothic tendencies once upon a time so I whispered to my daughter that I thought they'd feel more comfortable in the corner booth, which stood empty ( Read more... )

...but the night is full of first run eps. All I really care about is "My Name is Earl"--have you seen it? It's a heartwarming and inspirational tale of personal redemption, which usually means I'm nowhere near it (I had to look up the meanings of "heartwarming," "inspirational," and "redemption" because those words aren't in my vocabulary), but ( Read more... )