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Planning ahead
For those of you who don't follow my LJ (which is almost all of you these days), I got a shitload of air miles from Southwest for agreeing to be bumped off my flight last week from Vegas to Atlanta, so I can afford to come out a little early for Balticon and stay an extra day after it wraps up on Memorial Day. I'll be arriving at Dulles on the ( Read more... ) -
Hello darkness, my old friend
My friend cipherpunk is fighting with the Black Dog at the moment, and I wish him luck with it; as he observed, depression seems to go hand-in-hand with high stress levels, and given my recent experience with this I am inclined to agree. There have been several points in my life when I was severely depressed, enough so that I agreed to go on antidepressants ( Read more... ) -
Komi-san
So before I forget, there's a manga that's blowing up online, Komi-san wa Komyushou Desu (Komi Has a Communication Problem) which is not just another high school manga. I haven't started reading it yet, but I can see why it appeals to a lot of folks - it's the exact reverse of a situation a lot of us are familiar with. Komi, the heroine, is a ( Read more... ) -
By Any Meme Necessary, 2018 Edition
Mitch Berg inspired me to do this almost a decade ago, and it's come in handy enough that I've kept doing it ( Read more... ) -
The Empires of the Mind
There's a conservative Goth political blogger in LA I know who quotes Churchill in his sigblock thusly: "The Empires of the future are the empires of the mind ( Read more... ) -
The story so far
So here I am on the 24th floor of the Stratosphere, with a great view of the mountains, the industrial/strip club zone between the '15 and (what else) Industrial Road, and the really sketchy neighborhood between the hotel and the zone ( Read more... ) -
Back with the clowns again
The Bartender: "May God turn His merciful face towards them ( Read more... ) -
And in the center ring...
Just so people know what's going on with a number of issues...if you want to comment, do so on Facebook ( Read more... ) -
The current financial mess
The bottom line is that for the last couple of weeks, I've been trying to get my stuff out of my apartment and into storage, or the trash as the case may be. As all of you know who have done the moving thing, it's hard work, and doing it myself has been very difficult - most of the time when I have been going full blast on boxing and lifting and ( Read more... )