I believe I just saw a corpse delivered to the local CBS station ( Read more... )

kdsorceress, who has a membership, took me to the Museum of Science today. There were the usual awesome things, like the room of math and the dinosaurs and the lightning fossil, and an unusually large number of geckos, which were the current special exhibit and the chief excuse for this visit, and also some new things that struck me as particularly nifty:

• A ( Read more... )

Last night, prior to running off to Everything Is Terrible! I was just putting in a DVD of the 1958 B movie Fiend Without a Face when I decided I wanted popcorn. The popcorn package had this extremely simple recipe for kettle corn on the back, which I tried, became addicted to, and now pass on to you:

• Use half as much oil and sugar as popcorn. If ( Read more... )

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So, imagine - imagine Koyaanisqatsi, except it's more disturbing, and there's a smoke machine on stage. Just a relentless, plotless barrage of images and jarring music and unsettling mirror effects, for like an hour and a half. With a smoke machine. And also Koyaanisqatsi is made entirely from found ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I was crossing the street to Diesel, and walked between a dog tied to a parking meter and a soup bone about four feet away from it. Like a moron, I reached down to pat the dog on the head, saying something like, "Aww, look, you have a bone!"


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I went to Arisia last weekend, and got my geek on for two nights at the beautiful Westin Waterfront ( Read more... )

The first line of the first post of each month of 2011:

I'm beginning to worry about the new year ( Read more... )

I just got back from Rare Exports, a Finnish movie about a team of miners who excavate Santa Claus, at the Brattle. It was probably the weirdest and most unsettling Christmas movie I've ever seen - it looks like horror, but it's not really horror, unless it is. It's certainly a Christmas movie. I suspect I might understand it more if I were ( Read more... )

Cliché of the day: I feel like a new man.I've been habitually tired for a long time - I'd guess six months, but it could be longer. I didn't feel rested when I woke up, I felt more or less foggy and thick during the day, and about three hours before bed my brain turned itself off. That last is the worst - those are my most consistent writing hours ( Read more... )

Look out your window. Does that look like December to you? If it does, you're not in New England. I'm still riding my bike; I'm not buying a December MBTA pass, because it wouldn't pay for itself. Today I biked downtown ( Read more... )