Stil alive. Brain overtaxed by studying and writing and holding down job. Hair falling out periodically, growing back, falling out again due to stress and malnutrition. Two written exams done as of this afternoon. One more on Monday, along with a paper comparing Christian and Zoroastrian concepts of resurrection, and my dissertation proposal (which ( Read more... )

I hadn't heard much over the last year or so from one of my exes. She'd made it known in no uncertain terms that she was upset that I had started dating someone and had, at one point, resorted to cyber-stalking Brittany. She's calmed down since then, but things between us were strained. Today however she contacted me via G-chat, asking if I could ( Read more... )

When I was a teenager I made up a character named "Valerius Geist" for a story I was writing. I remember when I created the name itself: it was a Latin name I liked and had been using for a while, and I enjoyed the contrast with the short German last name which I only used because it had been in an anime series I was watching with my brother. I ( Read more... )

Also worth noting: I was laughing my head off during a particular scene in the latest Harry Potter film in which, for some reason, a Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds song is played while two characters dance.

For those interested, it's "O Children" from the "Abattoir Blues / Lyre of Orpheus" dual-album. A very odd choice.

Tonight's episode of "Psych" is a DELIGHTFUL send-up of / tribute to "Twin Peaks". They've got a lot of the original cast and they redid the opening title and theme-song. I am LOVING this episode! They even recreate or reference several of the original scenes, there's an old woman carrying a log, a character named "BOB" and the murder victim is ( Read more... )

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"Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line."
  --Benoit Mandelbrot, The Fractal Geometry of Nature--

Coptic presents a different way of looking at the world ( Read more... )

"Oh, Nikita"
by The Guggenheim Grotto

I was meant for the movies
I was meant to be great
but somewhere in the confusion
I was left in the shade

oh nikita
come get me
I’m almost 30

I have lived with devotion
dignity and panache
I stoked the fire within me
the fire turned me to ash

oh nikita
come get me
I’m almost
thirty

"I wrote a song called “The Princess Who Saved Herself” because my daughter is obsessed with princesses, so I am forced to think and talk about them a lot. None of them really kick ass as much as I hope my daughter kicks ass when she’s all grown up, so I made up one that does (she ate a whole cake!). All recorded at home old school style, with a ( Read more... )

So this is a very fine article indeed. Quite humorous and informative.

But the best part is the following sarcastic comment left by one of the various readers:

"Anything that makes a man cry is gay! Transformers Movie, Fiddler on the Roof, That episode of Futurama with Fry's dog... th-the original land b-before time- OH GOD I CAN'T GO ON!"