I was thinking today about how there are at least four different levels of grief: there's existential grief, where the loss of something changes the fabric of your existence, and that absence is something that defines the path of your life from then on out; there's personal grief, where the connection is personal and intense but eventually you move ( Read more... )

(Cross posted from the El Kiablo Tumblr)

The company that hosted El Kiablo (the actual website, not the tumblr-ized off shoot) sent me an email last August saying that they were getting out of the hosting business and that I would need to migrate the site. Given the size of the database I had - two thousand plus cartoons, plus meta data like ( Read more... )

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My friend Oliver spent a year working on this thing and it came out really well, so I'm going to flog the hell out of it on any networky type sites I'm on until he's a millionaire

I've been on Livejournal for years, and I still check it regularly and treasure my archives of writings to some extent... But my desire to post here has definitely been sapped by the number of people who have been migrating away from it. Almost nobody ever posts here anymore, whereas my tumblr feed is generally full. Writing in a vacuum feels ( Read more... )

There’s a part in the Shakira song She-Wolf where she discusses how she’s going to turn into a she-wolf because she’s being mistreated by her man. Specifically that she’s going insane because she’s being treated the way an office treats its coffee maker, which I suppose is bad? After having worked in an office for a few years I can’t say that the ( Read more... )

I just watched the Coen brothers film A Serious Man for the second time. It's rare for me to watch a film once and leave with a feeling that I need to rewatch it again to understand it, but I honestly cannot remember the last time the second viewing didn't put all the pieces in place for me. I understood it a lot more this time in terms of plot and ( Read more... )

So, this year's Oscar nominees are an interesting lot. It's shaping up a lot like the 1979 Oscars, actually, and since I understand that that sentence doesn't mean anything to almost anyone, I'll clarify. Generally the Oscars nominate a specific type of film that is trying to straddle the world of art and commerce, but sometimes completely weird ( Read more... )

So, I watched the State of the Union address tonight. While I agree with the general online consensus that the speech could have been better - less bland, to start - in a way I found it comforting. I've only really paid attention to the state of the union in the last ten years or so and George Bush's almost always struck me as speeches that were ( Read more... )

I biked like a madman to get to the post office; there's a strict nine p.m. cut off for mail drops but if you beat it your nextflix gets back the next day instead of the day after. Now 9 pm is pretty generous, but as with any deadline, the goal is to push it to that line and no further. I had started my movie late - six thirty - so with the ( Read more... )

I tried to get Netflix to ship me it's a Beautiful Life before Christmas, but no dice - it was in demand then and I had to wait till now. But I'm kind of glad that I did because I feel like the movie had a different feeling for me in the wake of the Gabrielle Giffords shooting, which I know sounds insane, but bear with me ( Read more... )