Snowy mornings are beautiful so long as you don't have to go anywhere. It snows about once a year in North Carolina, and today we've actually got a few inches on the ground and almost everyone has the day off. There's one enthusiastic kid running around on the lawn - I guess the others are being made to eat breakfast and wrap up before they go ( Read more... )

Forgive my silence. Work is eating my head. Don't drop me; I'll be back.

Tonight I came across an idea about Coetzee that I didn't know I had. It was about how one can see postmodern despair clearly and still write with love.

Some people bring ideas out. Thanks, aetatis.

So here's the deal ( Read more... )

I have nothing to offer about history, or anything like that.

What I want to say, from the bottom of my gamer geek heart, is -

w00t!

I totally forgot my complex was showing The Shining on the lawn tonight - until I heard a shriek of "RED RUM, RED RUM," seemingly coming from my balcony.

Yeah, that was a bit startling.

I rarely blog a dream, but I recently dreamed that I went home for Easter to find that my parents had invited, along with several old family friends, Nelson Mandela and Vladimir Putin, and seated me between them at dinner. They looked exactly like themselves, as people often don't in dreams ( Read more... )

As some people depicted therein have assured me that they don't mind, I'm back to doing bitstrips. I wish I could draw, because while they're fun to make they're pretty limiting. I did leave the other strips up. They were posted back in March ( Read more... )

Got this from mystech. Not much new here, but it's a good summary of recent McCain rallies ( Read more... )

So the other day I went and looked at the custom word list on my BlackBerry. It goes like this: ( Read more... )