Neat!

www.skirball.org/index.php

Heehee, how to have revenge on your brother the movies star:

Tom Felton is convinced he has crazier fans than his Harry Potter co-star Daniel Radcliffe - he once received a letter from a devotee who asked to adopt him.

The actor - who plays Draco Malfoy, the rival of Radcliffe's boy wizard - has met several wacky Potter followers since filming the ( Read more... )

I have lots to do, and plenty of items to fix-- no shortage in that category. So why do I feel this finger-twitch to try and figure out why a fifty-year old coffee percolator (that ebay says has no value) isn't working and how I can fix it! I so need to up the voltage ( Read more... )

I was poking about the great and glorious time-suck of doom while my sprained dignity sort of recooperated. My train of thought was bouncing along a weird set of tracks (what's new). I was thinking how much fun it would have been to have gone up to see Some Like it Hot at the Million Dollar Theater in downtown L.A. two weekends ago. Tony Curtis was ( Read more... )

Bicycling it is not:

I don't feel especially encumbered by limitations, but maybe there are somethings I shouldn't be doing. The adage "It's just like riding a bicycle" in my case, does not apply to skateboards. No one would EVER know I use to zip around the neighborhood on one of these fool-things. Skating on quads or inline--no problem! But it ( Read more... )

Slowly I'm winnowing out the habits I didn't choose and sliding into place the intentional consistency of my dreams (Since I already have the "dream" house and the "dream" car, I have to dream up something else). I have always had a fondness for hobgoblins and foolish behavior.

But more importantly: I have a sandwich! A delicious, Primo Italian ( Read more... )

I don't pay as much interest to what's going on as I should, but I always like hearing first person perspectives. This was an interesting piece on the situation in Iran

www.juancole.com/2009/06/most-elegant-scene-mass-protest-in.html

I work in Orange County. The constant blaming of EVERYONE-- including the Lakers -- for the financial woes of California gets old. It's the finger pointing without one piece of solid intel to back anything up, and the lack of humor that really gets to me. I'm merely a lowly bartender, and a blond one at that (as I am constantly reminded by that ( Read more... )

Fire fencing!
www.firedusk.com/

I've really wanted to start a costume project. I don't really have time, so I poke around the web instead:
www.organicarmor.com/Products/Armor/index.htm

...and find even more reasons and ways to waste time and money
www.labyrinthmasquerade.com/gallery.php