I don't write these unless I feel they're worthwhile to write. Suffice to say that I felt inspired to convey my lack of inspiration ( Read more... )

I normally never do these, and even more rarely (read: "never") have I posted them for other people to see. However, I was simply too thrilled with the results to not post them. The Flash is probably the DC hero I relate the most to. (Batman is my favorite but I am really not a Batman.) And Spider-man is my favorite super hero for multiple reasons ( Read more... )

"They only include the bald black girl because she's exotic."
"She's also got the fastest runway times."

There's a tree in my future, a good weekend in my past, and a lack of desire to write this in my present.

Computers will eat all my money.

Online everyone has the opportunity to appear brilliant. Online thesauruses, dictionaries, encyclopedias. Spell check. The fact that on IM you can type out an entire thought that would normally have been spoken, and then delete it because you realize that it's something you shouldn't say. You could spend minutes deciding how to respond, a luxury ( Read more... )

Yesterday I sat in a room with three other people (one cranky old guy and two of my friends) and interviewed (well, Mike interviewed) Bill Nye the Science Guy. He seemed genuinely amicable. He didn't necessarily have all the spunk he put on for his TV show. But there were definitely times where bits of his more comical side came out. ("You might ( Read more... )

Much in the way an article will place warnings around spoilers so I feel too inclined to bookend the following with a warning of my own.

//Stereotypical Livejournal entry starts here//

My life is directionless. I putter from one activity to the next, fulfilling the bare minimum requirement to get by. I do all my homework but don't attempt to excel. I ( Read more... )

An excerpt from a New York Times article "How to Be Funny".

"How to Do a Deadpan
By Bob Balaban, actor

Deadpan: a vaudeville term coined in the 1920s to describe a comic with an expressionless face, pan being slang for face, and dead being dead. Think Jack Benny. Buster Keaton. Christopher Guest. Deadpan is the double take without the take, the ( Read more... )

I don't consider myself a poetic person. I generally hate poetry. But there's something about a heavy rain (it doesn't matter what temperature) that just makes me want to be able to write down in lacey words and drawn out metaphors how this downpouring of water stirs such feelings within me.

Walking home from Jorgensen tonight after working from 9 ( Read more... )