Shameless plub: For those that are interested, my writing group is doing a live reading at Avol's just off State St downtown (on Gorham St). 1pm Sunday.

http://www.isthmus.com/theguide/details.php?event=189086

I went to the Escape last night to chill, read,and edit a chapter of a novel that isn't written and won't go into the novel once it's written if it is ever in fact written ( Read more... )

So, my World of Warcraft addiction has finally been overcome. Funny, I recall writing a while back about quitting... and then the expansion was coming, or so they said, and I went on, and on, and on ( Read more... )

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So last night I saw two movies at the Westgate. Once I got there I wanted to see three, but so it goes.
The first was Thank You For Smoking. Top notch, incredibly entertaining, and cute in a morbid way. 92 minutes that fly by.

The other one I saw was Hard Candy. This movie could have been a play. It's mainly a dialogue between a 14 year-old ( Read more... )

Bush's new spokesman has previously criticized him for not being conservative enough.
Oh vey.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4945156.stm

Or stupid me. I got this voucher for a free round-trip ticket with NWA (for volunteering to take a bump on a flight). Well, as it turns out, they have a limited number of free-flight seats available on each flight. Or it's one the flight fills up to a certain point they no longer take free flight vouchers. Great. The plus side is that if I don ( Read more... )

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The first of the two films I saw on Saturday was Stolen Life. Interesting and ultimately depressing. The kind of depressing that you wonder why you're subjecting yourself to it. It made me wonder, "Is this the feeling some people have when they read my stories?" I gave it a 3 out of 5. The story was well done, (based on a novel), but the ( Read more... )

Last night's movie was alright. In one word I'd describe it as meta. I don't know if that's right, but I'm using the word anyway. It's a movie/documentary of a film crew auditioning people to do a scene between a husband and a wife, a conflict in which the wife accuses the man of being a faggot. This is a minor part of the film. Much of the ( Read more... )