The dog ate the cat, the cat ate the rat, and the rat ate the cheese.

a couple evenings ago i was reading from a technical book and had a sudden excursion into a nearly waking dream. it took barely a moment, i felt as though my eyes stopped in mid-sentence, the dream surged through me, and i picked up again where i left off on the page. couldn't have been more than a second or two, but what i remembered seemed to ( Read more... )

right after i was offered a contract extension through october of 2006, i just yesterday was told that i'm being put on hold here and i should go home and sit on my thumbs until further notice. how convenient! i don't have to actually *quit*. then after a month or more, they'll call me back over there, and if i'm desperate, or things have ( Read more... )

Although he's not as charismatic or popular in his locution as Dr Martin Luther King, "Weird Al" Gore had some direct things to say in criticism of the current admininstrations relentless expansion of executive branch powers. (In his introduction, almost as an aside, he basically implies that the FBI had MLK assassinated.)Complete but less-than- ( Read more... )

was tricked into watching Cabin Fever.

god-forbid that a reckless opinion of mine spark a debate with someone who actually *likes* this movie (hint hint), but i have to say it sucked.

so, a rich kid gets small jobs in indie film circuit through family connections, then gets family money and makes wannabe homage (pronounce to rhyme with fromage ( Read more... )

when i hear the idiomatic saying "so-and-so was born to fight" i think, nah, if one were born to fight, there would be claws and sharp teeth at birth, and probably a tough skin or fur. instead, just take a look at newborn people. we are apparently born to need and want the protection and security of other human company. thanks to the complexities ( Read more... )

my beloved firebug is airborn at this very moment. probably somewhere over canada. fly safe, creature of mine. in the meanwhile i will keep the kitten well loved, and give myself guff while making my own damned fires. i miss you.

lone ranger's real name = john reid.

tanto = no known translation in amerindian lang. but does mean "fool" in spanish.

kemosabe = probably from a word in the Ojibwe language, spoken by the Ottawa, that might mean something comparable to "scout". according to the source i read, it might also be translated as "one who peeks", which sounds like a ( Read more... )

there's something very strange about this short little car commercial. watch closely with sound on. be warned though, it's a little spooky and not for weak hearts.


spooky ad, watch carefully or you might miss it

watching this will only be effective with audio.

when i came home today, my house was very comfortably warm. not eyeball-drying, parched and dehumidified, but god-fearing, wood-burning, the-way-man-was-meant-conquer-nature warm. real fire. not gas, but a god-damned druid-loving tree. chopped into warmth-shaped pieces by an axe, a tool that is very capable in times of both war and peace. chunks of ( Read more... )