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NATOPOCALYPSE!
I suspect that the rest of this weekend and Monday won't be nearly as cool, but... today was kind of awesome, in a "This is what post-apocalypse Chicago would be like" kind of way ( Read more... ) -
Reading Comprehension...
Every once in a while, someone brings something to my attention that just makes me sad inside on pretty much every education-related and reading-related level possible. Something like this: the New York State exam test-writers yoinked a surreal fable out of a longer work by a children's author, boiled it down, and then added some multiple choice ( Read more... ) -
Omg, I'm sorry!
Guys, I'm still alive! I'm sorry. I think it's been almost a month since I've posted anything, and last you heard from me I was busy crying and gnashing my teeth about my writing job (which I still have. It's a long story that I'm not keen to revisit (unless you really want me to?), but we'll just say No One Was Right and leave it at that for the ( Read more... ) -
Oh, Media
So apparently, after a week of almost nonstop work (because picking up a part-time job on the side when you're working 50 hours a week is cool) and unusual (for me) amounts of social interaction, I suddenly and unexpectedly have a Saturday to myself. And I guess I'm spending my Saturday thinking, once again, about... the media. (Because all I ( Read more... ) -
Why Don't You Know?
This week I have discovered new levels of exhaustion. It'd probably be easier for me to count the hours I haven't been at work. And yet my net progress on making my next month of existence less bleak than this one? ...Not very great. But this is a horse long ago dead and beaten, so let's not get into it. (I probably should, because I'm getting ( Read more... ) -
On Black March
I'm going to sopasoapbox here for a second guys, sorry. But I keep seeing posts about Black March, and while I agree with it in principle, I can't imagine it having any significant effect on the MPAA, RIAA, etc. Why? Because while we are still part of the demographic that everyone courts... most of us don't spend a lot of money on our ( Read more... ) -
Meta calls to me!
I wish I had enough time to finish writing up some Meta things tonight because agh, authorial intent! It is haunting me. Thankfully I got through Reichenbach without any meta-level issues, but I still have some lingering from ASiB, and somehow Andrew Hussie is massively stepping into it in regards to race on Tumblr tonight and this makes an ( Read more... ) -
Woo!
Happy New Year, everyone! (Or nearly everyone. There are still a few hold-out time zones, even at this hour.) I'd like to thank Chicago for whatever strange force caused it to be possible for me to finish 2011 and begin 2012 on my bike (even if the 2012 leg involved fighting 15mph wind, and was largely due to none of the buses to the south side ( Read more... ) -
So, about that 2011 music
All right... I think it's about time for me to do my Best Albums of the Year post, right? I've had a bit of trouble with this, actually, because while last year there were at least two albums that I wanted to tuck under my pillow and keep with me forever, that kind of hasn't happened this year. Or, when it has, it only lasted for a couple of ( Read more... )
