To: Garren ( Read more... )

First, I think this post on Watching Watchmen is very good. While I may not be geeky enough to be so invested, or have finished the book (I'm halfway through at this point), overall the piece itself is kind of brilliant. The format they used worked well to keep people interested, and provided for intelligent debate on the story/film.

( Thoughts Back Here, Less There Be Spoilers )

Unlike most people (or maybe it's an Indiana thing), I'm glad for Daylight Saving Time. I'm glad that the sun no longer blinds me as I'm driving to work, and that I get a few more weeks/months until Lottie turns in to the living alarm clock. It had started this past weekend, with the cooing at 5:30-6 a.m. because the sun was up and I wasn't yet. ( Read more... )

This past year, I've been trying to cut back on splurges A LOT. Which means no buying shoes or clothes, overly frou frou foods (sometimes I still get a wedge of brie though), and cutting back on eating out a lot ( Read more... )

The L.A. Times ran an article called If I Ran the NEA, where they asked 30 influential people & 30 people just that.

Author & Former Senator Tom Hayden's spoke to me quite a bit (I think I argued about this the other day):
With the Congress including $50 million for the arts in the economic stimulus package, the overall annual budget for the NEA ( Read more... )

A few months ago, I sent Garren a link to an article that was talking about how the violence in video games actually led to a decrease in violence and sex crimes ( Read more... )

I feel like Garren and I are doing REALLY well about cutting back on our eating out this month, and additionally keeping up with the challenge of adding more veggies & fruits to our diet. Luckily for me (and not so luckily for him), I've found that 2/3 of most eating out food things just aren't tasting so hot. That or they end up making me feel ( Read more... )

Apparently the fashion industry has deemed Heidi Klum too fat to be a fashion model.Choice quotes ( Read more... )

It feels like Spring out, in the way that only a Midwest Spring feels ( Read more... )

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