There was a recent article in the AV Club about their favorite movie cliches. The first one mentioned is one of my personal favorites: the big speech.

"I love the big speech scene, when the hero takes center stage and delivers this brilliant monologue that just kills everybody else in the room. I’ve always been infatuated with the idea that if ( Read more... )

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A collection of links I've accumulated and procrastinated blogging about for going on a couple months:

• Lipstick on a pig? - An incredibly, ahem, timely article about the cleaning up of St. Louis for the All Star game
  
• St. Louis Tea Party vs. All Star Game - A fairly boring article, followed by some rabid discussion, the latter of which I actually ( Read more... )

I always find it interesting when people tell me to blog more. I appreciate it, but usually I just see it as an indication that I need to spend more time just talking to that person. However, this time, that's clearly not the case. It was actually one of the people I talk to the most that requested an update. So here goes ( Read more... )

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I'm 25. Whoa.

And now a list of random show tune lyrics that mention how old people are. Bonus points for guessing all of them.

1. After all, science has shown a person's character isn't really established until at he's at least 5 years old.
   
2. There was the time Avram sold him a horse that he said was 6 years old, when it was really 12.
   
3. You'll be 40 ( Read more... )

How's this for a one-two punch. Last Friday/Saturday, I participated in the 8th annual "7/24", the 24 hour play festival at the Tin Ceiling Theatre. This is my first opportunity to act in a play since the 7th annual "7/24". Then, on Sunday I catch a matinee of "A Chorus Line" at the Fox Theatre, a musical about people who spend their lives on the ( Read more... )

Handheld Nintendo Gaming Device

In scholarly news, my latest paper is in Google Scholar. Now you can go read officially all the wonderful things there are to know about cDNA to Genome alignment. While you're at it, you can read my undergrad thesis and Elise's undergrad thesis as well. I am working on getting my undergrad work going again, to some ( Read more... )

Various news snippets...

• The Mets are on a bit of a hot streak. The Cardinals, not as much, although they both are at the top of their respective divisions. I started feeling like the Mets and Cardinals could not both be good at the same time this season (a feeling helped by the Cardinals sweeping the Mets back in April, grumble grumble). However, ( Read more... )

From the Riverfront Times, an article about an Austin, TX mayoral candidate warning about Austin becoming more like St. Louis, the analogy being that St. Louis was once a great city and now it's not, and Austin is a great city. I think the comments had some interesting points (for once). Someone likened the general response to criticisms of St. ( Read more... )