I've been quoting the line "The shnozberries taste like shnozberries" for years. I always liked the absurdity of the whole thing, with the kid being overenthusiastic for something that was just made up ( Read more... )

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Song Unsung

The song that I came to sing remains unsung to this day.

I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument.

The time has not come true, the words have not been rightly set;
only there is the agony of wishing in my heart.

The blossom has not opened; only the wind is sighing by.

I have not seen his face, nor have I ( Read more... )

It's finally happened, I've hit rock bottom. You think things can't get any worse, and they do. For the last six days I've had 'Straight Up' stuck in my head. It may sound like I'm joking about how bad this is, but c'mon, it's Paula Abdul. It was ok at first, but now I'm afraid it'll never stop. I quit smoking again, so my willpower resistance is ( Read more... )

I thought I'd point out a rather interesting article from GDC I ran across. It's a new game design from Will Wright (of The Sims fame). He's trying to create an organic (in an almost literal sense of the word) gametype with a universal scope (this time very much literally). It's a pretty interesting thing. One of the core concepts behind it is that ( Read more... )

The story continues, as always. I was in an accident last night. The front of my car appears to be totalled. I'm ok. They're ok. Interesting night; the kind of thing I may need less of for a while.

I have a place. I now am forced to tell people I live in Los Angeles I suppose.Here in particular:

1748 1/2 Crenshaw Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90019

It's bloody cheap too. At least for California.

Did anyone here leave me a message with a few minutes of old jazz? I'm at a loss, and the usual suspects claim ignorance.

If you're looking for really cheap music there are a couple of websites out of Russia that you can legally download full albums from. You prepay a certain amount and they deduct for each song or megabyte you download. I've been using mp3search.ru, which was 10cents a song, with $20 I managed to get about 12 albums. The sound qaulity for those is ( Read more... )

I love tunneling into a bookstore when it's raining. When it's just pouring out. I'm thinking it might have something to do with the moisture shifting the air out and mixing with that smell every good bookstore wears like a badge of pride. I wish I could still escape into books the way I can still escape into bookstores, especially big ones, with ( Read more... )