Hey, I realized I haven't passed on the news -- Roupmom and Roupdad have sold their house and bought a new joint up in Issaquah. They are moving to be near to Roupbrother, wife and sprogs. They had already moved out of the house that I grew up in, but for family vacations I won't be flying back into the Portland area any more. Yet another ( Read more... )

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I was just wondering amongst my readers who might really give a damn about my story about meeting a fairly famous DJ. I thought it was cool, but then I know my music is not everyone's cup o' tea. Personally, I'm a house fan, more on the progressive (though I hate that term) dark end, but I'm including techno and trance here. But I mean, for ( Read more... )

If anyone wants to buy me a gift for no particular reason beyond just that I am an all-around swell guy, I am a 2X.

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I am only slightly near-sighted. My prescription is only half a whatever-the-unit-is in one eye, and one w-t-u-i in the other. I need my glasses for driving to read road signs (I can see cars and such ahead of me just fine) and watching tv/movies (to see fine detail, big shapes are clear). Reading and the computer I always take off my glasses, I ( Read more... )

Pretty cool moment... I went to an outside bar at the Farmers Market to watch Italy v Germany. I ended up sitting next to a German guy, so naturally he's rooting for the Germans, we're making conversation, talking about where he's from and so on. The guy on the other side listening in says he's going to Berlin in a few days to play a festival in ( Read more... )

I finally got around to seeing Mirrormask, which was absolutely brilliant. First, from a storytelling perspective, I'll always continue to be a complete, ogling Gaiman fanboy. I don't think he's ever written anything that hasn't tapped somehow into bits of my subconscious I didn't even know where there, but once down on the page seem obvious and ( Read more... )

One of my "commands" was to go to the Getty and give a report on a work of art. On querying, I was told that LACMA was an acceptible substitute. So I went, and here is my report ( Read more... )

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Bob Clampett's Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs, a 1943 cartoon for Warner Brothers, is the Birth of a Nation of animation: It is both revered as a piece of ( Read more... )

Hey, Democrats. Want to know why you keep losing? This is why. And because for a big part of the country, this is how they think you see them. And if you don't stand up and shout stuff like this down, you are going to keep losing ( Read more... )

What's supposed to be a denunciation has instead made me want to shop at Whole Foods more often.

Most people who shop at Whole Foods are liberal yuppies ( Read more... )