A pair of notes I scribbled at work, tired of boredom and sick of people ( Read more... )

The tears didn't manage to come until I hung the suit over my door. The uniform I would wear to bury him. It was fitting really. I laid his wife to rest about fifteen years previous. It's the role I fill in family affairs now. To escort them in their new lives in marriage. To lay them down when they are free of their burdens ( Read more... )

I lost the page. It was more than just ink on paper. Rare thoughts brought about by college-era triggers such as lack of sleep and a need to fill a blank page. I recall work and routine. Getting to sleep late to wake early to sleep again to wake again and on and on. There was worry for friends. People still trapped living under the same roof as ( Read more... )

Got to play Entdecker the other night and it taught a valuable lesson: Euro games still aren't fun. "Spiel der Spiel" apparently translates to "Passive-Aggressive Point Track Race". Utterly terrible. Another game where the best way to win is to wait for your friends to put time and effort into something and then steal it with minimal effort. I ( Read more... )

Ever have a guy in your gaming group that had a raging hard-on for katana blades? Every weapon he had was a katana and he'd bitch if the GM made any of the loot non-Eastern. It'd always be a rant about the superiority or the katana because he saw Highlander or played Tenchu one too many times. Yeah, fuck those guys and their sword racism. But do ( Read more... )

Without the radio to freely distribute the music I like, I turn to the collection of tubes known as the internets to research new music. From there things spawn further. The webs expands exponentially into several interesting directions. A search for Rotersand on YouTube reveals a Daniel Myer side project known as Destroid which leads to concept ( Read more... )

I was generally bummed this morning. Scraping snow and ice with a gloved hand is a lot more time consuming and annoying than with a scraper. Dealing with my mother is slightly more annoying. Oblivious to the troubles our family had in the past, she still blames me for hating my middle brother. Let me repeat that, she blames me for the situation ( Read more... )

So, I find that despite my very particular taste in music, I found myself mesmerized by Kanye West's closing performance for the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards. Never listened to anything the guy has ever done outside of making Mike Myers shit himself on national television. I try to wrap my brain around it and I think it was the minimalism of the ( Read more... )

Just finished Neuromancer a few hours ago. I think it's been a long time coming, but I'm starting to realize that you only take away the best from a work if your mind is set at the proper wavelength. Had I read this as a teen, I wouldn't have gotten as much as I have out of it. What frightened me the most were the similarities between the ( Read more... )

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I almost didn't watch this because of the AMV in the title. Usually that means you're going to watch some shitty anime about an emotionally stunted fuck-stain with a weird hair-do and a sword like a boat oar running and/or jumping to some trance music. This, however, is a great editing job involving Feindflug's song AK-47 and a Russian animated ( Read more... )