I still think Grant Morrison may be clinically insane, and his work frequently drives me nuts, but when he has a point, sometimes it's worth repeating:I don't know if we're so much inured to apocalypse as almost sexually obsessed by it…Think of all those videogames where the Earth's overrun by insect-aliens or there's been an atomic war and we're ( Read more... )

Welcome, 2009! Yet another year I never thought I'd see, or at least never thought I'd see like this. Pretty used to that by now, though, so it's mostly an afterthought that comes when I'm not quite sure what to do with a new year. An unwritten future doesn't make me different from anyone else; it's just a little off to realize sometimes. No fate ( Read more... )

We're in Iowa for the weekend to attend my twentieth (!) high school class reunion. Our travel has involved planes, trains, and automobiles, in part as a way to keep costs down (questionable) and in part as a holdover of my original desire to make it a train trip vacation (way too expensive). The end result has us taking the train from and to ( Read more... )

I get confused. I remember everything. I remember too much, and...some of it's made up, and...some of it can't be quantified, and...there's secrets.

-River Tam, Firefly ("Safe")

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

-Mark Twain

Current events I'm trying not to be too bummed about:

• barlow_girl is in Atlanta for work until Tuesday. Couples deal with separate travel and schedules all the time, and it's really not a huge deal (it weirds me out when people are incapacitated when their spouse is away), but it's still the first time we've been apart for this long and I miss her.
• Got notice ( Read more... )

Left my umbrella on the bus. Bummer. "Umbrella" is one of the only things for which I can remember the Japanese word ( Read more... )

Just up from yet another dream trying to fix the past. There are a few places I gravitate back to when I do this, probably because those memories are so much clearer than others I might wrestle with. One of the things that rattled me a bit this time was how willing I was in the dream for barlow_girl and I to pick up and leave our life in Seattle-upon ( Read more... )

Buried in the credits of Heroes, I see a piece of my own history flash. Why didn't I notice it sooner? I'm getting sloppy.

Sounds about right...


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