LJ friends, your prodigal son has returned. As most of you know, I've been living back at home for nearly a year due to money concerns and such, and as a result I've been sort of dead to the world. The four-hour round trip commute doesn't do much for my desire to drive back to the DC Metro area...but I digress. I miss this LJ, not to mention the ( Read more... )

Since thehefner  brought up The Daily Show's recent scathing, dead-on coverage of the conventions, I had to share this. As narrated by Ian McShane. My blood actually ran cold by the end of it, but my God is it brilliant. marred82  was waiting for a Dr. Moreau clip, but for the sake of our sanity they didn't go there.

If you wish to laugh at my awkward acting sensibilities, Mike Barron has uploaded his eight-minute short Figment Newton to the YouTubes. Do I really sound like that? And what the hell am I doing with my hands? Is it some sort of palsy? Watch it, or skip down to the part of this entry that's about my new iPod.

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That's right, I've been a hermit all ( Read more... )

Wow...three weeks away from my LJ? I suppose I'd better update things before I wind up on the side of a milk carton. What's new in this guy's world? I'm still a writing fool:

-Over at Crunchable, I discussed the horrors of sprickets and the ups and downs of traveling up I-81 to my family's cottage in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Hopefully the site ( Read more... )

Right, so I need to keep updating my book list in an ongoing effort to prove my literacy. Avast! We left off in January with...

3. The Long Pursuit  by Roy Morris, Jr. As I had mentioned, this is the latest of 423,182 books written about Lincoln. It juxtaposes the lives and careers of Lincoln and one of his chief contemporaries and rivals, Stephen ( Read more... )

As I mentioned to some of you over the weekend, I actually stayed in Georgetown late into the night last Thursday, something I generally avoid. I had good reason, as Will Leitch was in town for a book reading and signing at the Barnes and Noble (two blocks up the street from my office). Who is Will Leitch, you ask, and well you might. He's best ( Read more... )

I'm referring to myself, but I could just as well be talking about winter. As I told Mikey this morning, I am tired of waking up and immediately freezing. It makes it so much harder to face the day when you're too cold to process coherent thoughts. To paraphrase Lewis Black, February is the time of year where you wake up one day and it's the ( Read more... )

Because it's Monday morning and you probably need this as badly as I do, consider yourself rickrolled...Mario Paint Composer style.

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Meanwhile, back at the ranch, new Snackable. It attempts to explain exactly why I spent eight months putting together my new website, and links to some of the kudos I've received in the blogosphere. There's even a ( Read more... )

It was quite an eventful weekend in my world. Friday night, I put the whip to each of the 100 monkeys at 100 PCs, and finally launched my long-talked-of website! It is rightchere - NumerOlogy: The Uniform Number History of the Baltimore Orioles. Check that out, it's got a real domain name and everything. Classy. Since it launched, I've already ( Read more... )

In a time-killing maneuver last week, I took a glance back at my LJ archives. I was a bit shocked to see that this journal spans FIVE years; I started it in November 2004 and here we stand in January 2008. The march of time is wonderful and terrible and inescapable. So if you're at all curious about what came before, I present to you a few snippets ( Read more... )