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The New Job
My new job, working for a certain branch of the Alberta government, seems like a lark. Simple enough not to be exhausting, busy enough not to be boring, and filled with interesting anecdotes ("Interesting", that is, within the rather lenient boundaries of work stories). I've only worked a morning thus far, and already I've encountered ( Read more... ) -
A post far too long in the making - Does anyone even read LJ anymore?
We arrived in Houston, after a long flight, and I felt an urgent need to use the restroom. I left my father watching the bags, nipped in, did my business and walked out into the waiting arms a man in a yellow SECURITY shirt with an expression of quivering disdain. At first I was worried I'd been caught snapping photos of the "NO LOADED HANDGUNS ( Read more... ) -
Pre-Re-Entry Procedures
Just giving everyone the heads-up that I'll be back in town on Friday, most likely Friday night, and we'll be doing a hell of a thing on Saturday. Oh, and I'm back on the internet.
Stories of Texas to be posted as soon as I've told everyone in real life. -
Oh lawdy lawdy, what has Smax done? Later to be titled: Exhibit A.
Today was... weird. I show up at work, and my coworker is sick. Incredibly sick. Death warmed over looks like Mary Louise Parker next to this kind of sick. So my new manager comes out of the cooler, and my coworker asks if she can leave early. Manager calls her manager, shrugs and says "nope", and goes back into the cooler. Now this seems like some ( Read more... ) -
NOBODY LOVES ME (I MEANT PHYSICALLY)
Finally . . . when we have no other counsel, let us employ the counsel of old women, who may slander and defame the girl as much as they can, for they are more sagacious in this than men. . . . Let there be sought a most horrible-looking old woman with great teeth, a beard, and evil and vile clothing who carries a menstrous napkin in her lap. And, ( Read more... ) -
Seven Soldiers +
Contains amazing-scene spoiler
Holy shit, motherfucking Frankenstein just blew up the Evil Fairy Queen's armada of killships, I fucking love comic books!
I know how that spoiler might play if you haven't read it, but this just might be the best damn comic series ever.
And because I'm way gay for image macros and godawful puns...
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The Lighter Side of Total Human Infertility
Finally got to see Children of Men tonight, which was just as great as everyone said it would be. Quick plot synopsis: In the future, there aren't babies any more, and people are understandably upset about this. When a pregnant woman shows up, shit gets bananas. For the first half hour or so, I was kind of underwhelmed. There was lots of neat eye ( Read more... ) -
Skeptic
Every once in a while, I'll read a book that makes me question why I want to write at all, something so clever, creative and well-written it makes anything I produce look like a steaming turd. Skeptic is like the polar opposite of that book. It pisses me off so much it makes me want to write.
Skeptic is a spy/medical/paranormal thriller, which I' ( Read more... ) -
Welcome to 2007
The Hut Sut Song
I want to hear a rapper advising his shorties and/or homeboys to "add a little brawla, brawla to it".