This weekend is Wafflefest!

All you can eat Waffles and improv!

Thursday through Saturday
Shows at 8 and 10pm
Hideout Theater

PGraph plays Saturday at 8pm. We debuted at Wafflefest 3 years ago. It's always a fun, sugary time. Come see some theater!

I've had an oddly relaxing weekend so far that involved about a gallon of fake blood, me channeling Peter Falk, a productive curriculum meeting, finding inspiration for my next story that's due, buying The World of Edward Gorey, helping bake a damn fine chocolate cake, and celebrating my birthday a month and a half late ( Read more... )

Holy shit, someone basically made DrinkPal. Why didn't I think of this?

http://www.givereal.com/static/tutorial

I guess we did think of it...minus that last step of making money off it. God it's brilliantly simple.

Three years? Really?

Damn.
Onward and upward...more?

I have been re-reading Kiss Me, Judas, by Will Christopher Baer. The core of the story is so remarkably simple, but it all hangs together with amazing depth because every character wants something. Phineas Poe's voice is so distinct and strong, and Baer's writing is simply amazing. His descriptions punch you in the gut. Baer's skill makes me want ( Read more... )

Dear Hip Restaurants,

If you have a culinary sense of humor, please add "Delicious, bitter-sweet, lame duck" to your menu for the next 2 and a half months.

I would eat that.

I can't get over how much this band seems to have been formed just to entertain me. It's pretty uncanny...

Indiana-based Murder by Death combine elements of artists like Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Johnny Cash, and the Decemberists. They mix slide guitar, cello, and bar room-style piano to create music that sounds like it is meant to accompany a ( Read more... )

I keep hearing references to the working man, and the American worker. I don't understand what this means, because there seems to be a very "us" and "them" presentation in it all. "Us" seems to be more blue-collar workers, and "them" are the white collar professionals. How is someone who works with his hands all day more of a worker than a lawyer ( Read more... )

I mentioned this to Roy last night, but it's worth repeating.
I am going to try to start the trend of referring to The Great Depression as "Depression I". Either that or The Depression to End All Depressions. Seriously, you think we would have learned a lesson about naming conventions after all the goose-stepping.

Memorial service tonight was cathartic and I think we all needed it.
I am glad it happened in the place I feel most spiritual and connected to people I love.

Stay warm and bound, Alex. You have an open invite to come take a photo and send a shiver down my sleeping spine whenever you want to.