I had a while to stew about the season opener of Chuck, and put some words down about it. It's got spoilers, so yeah. It's also got a some lit crit, so if you want to get to the bitch, just go to the last paragraph ( Read more... )

Good morning, LJ people, sorry I haven't been around much. With getting a twitter account and work getting hectic and getting an X-box 360 and Mass Effect, I have been rather away from writing. That shall be corrected here, hopefully ( Read more... )

I'm here at a live music show. I really don't like live performances of anything. It's because I'm an analytical person and a visual learner, and live music isn't conducive to either, really. Analysis asks for dialogue, reflection. Live events are about the moment, something ephemeral that vanishes in an instant and yet is ever present ( Read more... )

I am approximately 3/4 of the way through No Country for Old Men and I must say that I am actually quite pleased with it and actually could see it as a quite suspenseful and well out together flick. So I want to see it even more now.

On the formerly-prolific, ever-brilliant commentary blog
Websnark, Eric Burns recently posted a post about ret-conning as it relates to Marvel Comics’ latest dead albatross: Spider-Man’s "One More Day" storyline. Now, I don’t really keep up with Marvel or DC, or really any comics beyond what Robert Kirkman is regularly writing for (and even then ( Read more... )

01/18/2098: The bitter winter continues unabated. Freezin rain buffets our site, with no hope of letting up. I feel for those poor s.o.b’s up in corporate, toiling in their subzero cubicles. But maybe they’ll get some warmth off the XO’s from HR. Obviously, anyone who makes us work during the worst storm of a millennia must be a demon, and ( Read more... )

So I picked up another Stephen King Book, for the first time in, oh, two years (that's a long time going between books by an author, especially one so prolific and in my preferred genres ( Read more... )

The epic of Gilgamesh is largely considered one of humanity's oldest and most timeless stories.

And yet, it is a story about man's inability to conquer mortality.

Irony!

Grandma Anzaldua is in the hospital.

My earliest memories of life include Wela making flour tortillas. She made them from scratch, and would let me play with the masa she didn't use. Who needs Playdough when I've got the real thing ( Read more... )

It's a lovely book. It's a copy of the Martian Chronicles by Bradbury. The book confused the hell out of me when I read it in high school. I was confused and it took me till I got to the end to realize that it wasn't your traditional begining/middle/end story. It's quite a good book, nonetheless. Not a favorite, mind, nor even a favorite ( Read more... )