I'm going to start Couch to 5k tonight. I've heard splendid things about the program, and I need to get in shape before I enter the decrepitude of old age.

Look forward to obnoxious pictures of me flashing my manly-man abs at you.

“That’s horrible, absolutely horrible,” he said. “Some of the nicest people I have ever met are gay people.”

And some of the nicest people I've met are imbecilic, fundamentalist, disingenuous assholes, which, consequently, forced me to reevaluate my judgment.



Uganda is just swell.

Anthropologist develops system to catalog religions and cults by the frequency and arousal of their rituals.

World's only employed undergraduate-level anthropologist.

J.K. Rowling: The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination

On Language: Cellar Door.

( --Started writing this years ago, never finished. Relevant to my digital anthropology interests.-- )

I'm returning to this space. I've occupied it with occasional breaks since 1999. My most recent leaving to take part in the Facebook experiment left much to be desired. Although FB has a great deal of my immediate social network, the friends that populate my day-to-day existence, it is in some innately mechanical way, very shallow. And by this I ( Read more... )

I regret to inform you, ladies and gentlemen, that Life After Death is not the grand prize winner at First Glance Film Festivals.

Back to the drawing board.

I know I updated this once before, but I can't find the update, so I'm here to re-update the original. The first post was only nine points long. I suspect it'll grow longer yet.

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The hilarious tragedies of life:1. You are not obliged to love anyone ( Read more... )