Being back in Cincinnati is weird and comforting at the same time.  In many respects nothing has changed.  There's still a fountain in fountain square. There's still a slew of restaurants and coffee shops and German sounding antiques dealers downtown.  But being so distant from my family means that I'm missing all of these major life changes going ( Read more... )

Everyone is going through a 10 year remembrance of September 11th, so this is my contribution.

I was living in Seattle, and going to graduate school.  I had been out that night, like every other night, and probably got home at some ridiculous hour of the morning.  My mother called me at 6:00 a.m.

"Mom, it's 6:00 a.m. over here.  Why are you ( Read more... )

I've been quite busy with work stuff lately. I'm still trying to figure out how to make the schedule out so that we're not totally destroying people's weekends forever. I think I'll find a solution to that this week though ( Read more... )

The Sharon Apple Concert from Macross Plus.

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It was five years ago today when my father passed away. I've been taking the day slowly, contemplating, reading. I don't often feel this way around this time of year, in fact I often forget that it happened until the day is upon me and then it hits me. My father is gone. My mother is alone. And I'm hundreds of miles away from either of them ( Read more... )

I saw this photo of me from Red Dragon Feast.

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I have literally grown up with movies as a critical part of my life. I’m not talking about going to the theater every once in a while, but literally at least 2-3 movies a day (sometimes more), every day, for the last 30 years. A lot of these movies have shaped my life in indefinable (and sometimes very definable) ways. But this isn’t really a ( Read more... )

I just watched "Singles" again for like the maybe 50th time, but it's been a while and not since I lived in Seattle. I liked it just as much as the first time I saw it in high school. It's everything a gentle, romantic film should be. Truly sympathetic and somewhat quirky characters, real people doing real things, ups and downs, dealing with ( Read more... )

I've been listening to a lot of the music I listened to when I was younger today, stuff I listened to while in high school ( Read more... )

Tonight I got to ride in the bed of a truck after having drunk maybe 7 pints of beer (slightly buzzing) at night on a cool semptember evening in my hoody ( Read more... )