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Sometimes the translation is better. (Part 1)
It's a bit upsetting to listen while your brother makes noises like he's dying, and more so when he perhaps might be, so I'm going to write about something else of equal gravity: a sound effect in a cartoon I loved growing up.
Starblazers was created in Japan as Space Cruiser Yamato, and was staggeringly popular in the 70s and early 80s. The ( Read more... ) -
2015, hike!
I last posted near the Winter Solstice, and now it's less than a week to Summer's. Sigh ( Read more... ) -
I dare not stop hitting myself.
I was driving home from Andover today, en route to an appointment with an eye doctor (I need progressive lenses), and ruminating as I do, when it struck me that I'm a hypocrite. It's one of my bedrock principles that everyone matters, and yet so much of my life is shaped by a sense that I don't. Part of that is depression, of course, but I think ( Read more... ) -
The unknowable and unpredictable postscript.
Alas, she does not feel about me like I feel about her. I do wonder if this is indicative of some personal flaw that I must address, or if my sample size is simply too small. As with many things in life, rejection is an inevitable part of the process. Food for thought in 2015 ( Read more... ) -
The unknowable and the unpredictable.
2014 has brought some unpleasant changes to my life, but some good ones, as well. The best has been getting to know a woman who lives on the west coast via Facebook and Google chats. The other day I could no longer deny that I was smitten with her, so I wrote her an email professing myself, and asking if perhaps she felt similarly ( Read more... ) -
Bubius Tubius
I have looked at a lot of art, lately, because I have had some time on my hands. Stories and games, and especially story games, have long been my preferred coping mechanism for life, so this is hardly a surprise. This is the first of a series of posts to sort of clear my mental buffer of thoughts about what I'm currently enjoying, and I'm going ( Read more... ) -
Screw You, Frank Sinatra (reprise)
OK, I found a work around for the glitch in the LJ app on my iPad, so I can write this post and see it at the same time. Much better ( Read more... ) -
Screw you, Frank Sinatra
This has proven to be a difficult year, full of changes and upheavals with an uncharted future ahead. My brother is going to the Dana Farber Cancer Institute twice a month for infusions of chemo therapy.... well, no, that's not quite right. He had the first infusion in early October, and found it so debilitating that he considered giving up ( Read more... ) -
Quick Dr. Who prediction
I have yet to see the most recent episode, Dark Water, so I may be completely wrong, but I do wonder if this mysterious Missy and her apparent afterlife and Promised Land might not be connected to an old story from the Tom Baker era. I can't recall the title, but it was about a group of survivors of some terrible calamity wandering the universe in ( Read more... ) -
Lottery winnings
Apropos of a comment I left for something anagramofbrat posted, I thought I'd bloviate about the terrible racket that are lotteries. Every once in a while, I play lotteries like Mega-Millions, wherein I sacrifice a dollar for a non-zero chance to win tens of millions of dollars. I don't expect to win, and I don't actually NEED the money, but I do it because ( Read more... )