Been a long while since I posted one of these. I haven't been moving very fast with the books, anyway, mostly because there have been a number of either weighty tomes or literary duds. Anyway, here's the last batch:

1980: The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer. This falls into the "tome" category: eight or nine hundred pages on the real-life ( Read more... )

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Been drawing like mad. Completed the foreground today for the third piece of the triad I'll be hanging on Friday. The drawing is of Kannon atop a dragon, and I'm happy to say that I'm finally at the point in my artistic career where I can draw a kickass full-color dragon freehand. Also, those of you who know Meg will get a kick out of this if and ( Read more... )

Obviously I haven't been too into journaling lately, but it's been almost a month, so here's a quick update for y'all ( Read more... )

Had a terrific day, and I feel a thousand times more relaxed than I did this morning. Friday and Saturday a little stressful at work, short-staffed as we were. Today I slept in, drank lots of coffee, took care of some bills, did the laundry, filed a change-of-address form with the post office in preparation for my move at the end of the month. Went ( Read more... )

I finally saw Watchmen on Wednesday night, and it was terrific. Ignore the naysayers: The movie's awesome. It not only retains the strengths of the comic, but manages even to improve upon the original ( Read more... )

To start with, this Daily Show confirms what I already suspected: No one understands the financial crisis. It is ultimately inscrutable, resulting as it does from essentially chaotic systems colliding with each other. If you claim to understand it, you aspire to an suprahuman level of comprehension and I, for one, believe you are full of shit ( Read more... )

Currently plan to be in Denver on the evening of Saturday, March 21, flying out Wednesday, March 25. I have to admit that I have certain misgivings about the trip - snowstorms in Colorado are not uncommon in March, and if the forecast is for snow the trip may have to be canceled, especially as Meg's car is hardly in excellent condition. Actually, ( Read more... )

First up: I'm coming to Denver! ETA: March 22. Here's why: Meg recently took her car in for some repairs and found it would cost her about $1200 to replace her failing brakes. This is hardly worth it for her little VW, and so the plan is to drive it to Denver, where her cousin will perform any necessary repairs and then sell it. Upshot is, it would ( Read more... )

More viral silliness ( Read more... )