I finally broke down and bought a toaster, and had my adventures in kitchening ( Read more... )

So, I just had a very strange afternoon.

If your grip on reality is rather loose, which, let's be honest mine certainly is, film festivals are not going to help that. I just went to see the world premiere of this really adorable film called Satellites and Meteorites. It's a small, independent Irish film. Obviously it's small. Any film having ( Read more... )

I'm at the airport, ready to flee the country in search of adventure and a good pint. My flight has been delayed, but hopefully I'll still make my connection. I had a pretty long layover scheduled in any case. Less time in Chicago doesn't sound like a bad thing right now, and at least DIA has free WiFi ( Read more... )

Today I planned to do laundry, start getting stuff together to pack, get my haircut, and finish arguing with the bank so they would give me money in foreign parts. I also planned to stop by the dentist to get a loose filling fixed. Except not so much. None of that happened other than the dentist and instead of fixing a filling I ended up have an ( Read more... )

This began as some notes for a short essay about the Trickster archetype, but quickly got out of hand ( Read more... )

Rich: Do we get points for just being interesting?
Stephen: That's it. Yeah.
Rich: Did you know that in some countries, linoleum is a form of currency?
Stephen: Now that's interesting. Is it true, however?
Rich: [pauses] You said it was interesting, right?So, after an evening of watching an embarrassing number of episodes of QI while writing two ( Read more... )

I just had this brilliant little moment of clarity and beauty, and I want to see if I can convey it at all in writing. I was doing some stuff around the house, cleaning, putting away Christmas decorations etc, with music on in the background. But I wasn't really doing anything at all because it's that sort of day and it was just starting to snow ( Read more... )

Some philosphical rambling wherein I pretend to know what I'm talking about. Sort of. Read it, reply, agree, argue, or ignore. Whatever. Ignoring is probably the sane choice, but not the fun one.

( I swear I'm not drunk, but someone really should keep me away from the philosophy articles on Wikipedia. )