Music can have peculiar effects on me. As I've detailed here recently, I am not particularly musically inclined, nor have I until recently even really cared that much about music. But music has always had an emotional effect on me more than most other people, I think, probably because I am prone to other random feelings of intense emotion. For ( Read more... )

I find it hard to believe that nobody has ever thought of this before. I include myself in that statement.

Oh man, this is the funniest news story I've ever seen.

So it turns out that dead skin rotting on your body smells really really bad. It makes, say, socks you wear over dead skin for hours on end inside a sweaty boot stink with said smell ( Read more... )

I just finished watching the entire series of Arrested Development for about the fourth time - although it was my first time through it again in about four months ( Read more... )

I got an unexpected package in the mail the other day. Inside the ubiquitous Amazon.com package was a shrinkwrapped bundle and an invoice for three titles: Straight Jobs, Gay Lives, The Strategy of Conflict, and Kicking and Screaming. It turns out it was a birthday gift from my brother.

I just watched Kicking and Screaming. By Jove, I wish I had ( Read more... )

I think I'm going to stop doing the whole livejournal thing for a while. It's lost its luster ( Read more... )

These past two days have been honestly trying on my mind and what others would term my soul. I spent most of yesterday reading an account of World War I as seen by the average British army man, and the rest of the day and today digesting it ( Read more... )

I did manage to time my sleeping on the flights so that my schedule was pretty well-in-tune with Shanghai's time zone, but evidently I underestimated the power of travel because I found myself in bed until 3:00pm local time today. At that point, at my brother's urging and my own reluctant desire, I got ready to wander out into the city - but not ( Read more... )

Hahahaha, oh man, do I know this word.

"simulacrum \sim-yuh-LAY-kruhm; -LAK-ruhm\, noun;
plural simulacra \sim-yuh-LAY-kruh; -LAK-ruh\:
1. An image; a representation ( Read more... )