It is odd to think when keeping any kind of journal that, in addition to whatever personal things one might be reflecting on in any given moment, that there is an entire world of activity happening every day outside of all that. In the past I only sporadically would comment on world events, though when I was first writing I'd often reference news ( Read more... )

I was on this Halloween kick so I was looking at some old links I have saved, seeing pictures random strangers from the Internet posted of Halloweens and costumes from decades ago. The nostalgia washing over me. I stumbled across articles and blogs from people talking about how the "last real" Halloween seasons were in the 1990s, mirroring what I' ( Read more... )

There's a hilarious thing happening in the country currently. Well, not so hilarious but still hilarious ( Read more... )

Right before I got sick the Sparrow and I had one of our lazy evenings in front of the TV and I put on Madonna's 'Bad Girl' video from the 90s. He'd never heard the song before and liked it. And I too remember liking the song and video a lot when I was younger. We ended up listening to some other 90s songs from her and I was actually quite ( Read more... )

Complaining about the weather in 2014 seems to be the norm. As much as I would like to appreciate the cooler temperatures and lack of overbearing heat and humidity, all the rain, cloudiness and lack of sunlight has been deeply affecting my psyche. I never realized how much I relied on the sun for mental wellness until I endured this past winter, ( Read more... )

Spike Lee is an ignorant, bigoted asshole. I am hearing all these news stories about him going after Clint Eastwood for "misrepresenting" history by not having African Americans, or whatever the PC term is these days, in his two WWII movies from a couple years back. This is of course all so he can stir up controversy over his WWII black-focused ( Read more... )

Something else I've had tossing around my mind for a bit now, based on stuff I was reading on the net Friday. The whole pointing-fingers attitude of modern society ( Read more... )

I am feeling a surge of technophilia this morning. I just want to spend a day reformatting my Windows PC at home. Researching on the pros and cons of running my iTunes off an external drive and backing up about 25 gig of MP3's to DVD incase my system crashes anytime soon. I just bought 70 days of privileges on my music pirating site and thanks to ( Read more... )

Ebert’s review of ’Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ sounds promising but expressed the same fears I had that Depp’s performance as Wonka just somehow didn’t work. Which sucks cause I like Johnny Depp’s stuff ( Read more... )

There’s a special on Rosa Parks on right now and it’s very disheartening to watch. I realize the cultural differences between ethnic groups, but I cannot fathom the mindset that existed concerning the difference in skin color back then. It’s completely illogical and preposterous that human beings could act like this ( Read more... )