I think someone's hacking my Live Journal. They keep deleting my credit card details.

The first time I entered the Robot Wars was in high school. My friend ran a Robocop movie marathon at his mother's 50th birthday, and while I was watching I was struck by a revelation. Robocop is the ultimate stoic warrior. The formula of his being is something like Human + Machine = Warrior. Ingenius in both its simplicity and its genius, yet ( Read more... )

Ahh, they were good times.

When everybody dies, they’re given a choice. You can either spend the rest of eternity in heaven reading the Bible, or you can write one journal entry ( Read more... )

I was having tea with the Dalai Lama the other day, and he gave me some pointed advice. "Quoting from the Simpsons is a lot like eating an orange," he said with a furrowed brow ( Read more... )

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Work on the sitcom is much less fun than I envisioned it. I imagined it as being all getting people coffee and scrubbing toilets and tripping over microphone leads and stuff. Unfortunately, as the writer, my role is quite different. It's less coffee and more writing. Which sucks, because I really like making coffee. Toilets I'm not so crash- ( Read more... )

It's been nearly two months, which means it's almost time to update. But seeing as it's Christmas I thought I'd jump the gun a little as a gift to you guys. Another result of this period of holiday cheer is that I'll actually be writing a non-fictional entry today. I know I've said that before (and many of you actually believed me), but this ( Read more... )

Lucas, I think I accidentally sent you a virus! Don't check your email!

If your computer's sort of screaming and there's smoke coming out of the top and little cracks running along the monitor, please, for the love of God, run a virus scanner!

Stewart was fairly easy. Lucas was the hard one to convince. He looked at me, one raised eyebrow transforming his forehead into a field of wrinkles, and said "Wes... don't get me wrong, you're a funny guy. But I don't see why you deserve your own show ( Read more... )