Greetings!  I'm Josh.  A long, long time ago I started this blog as a way to chat with family and friends about my life in college without having to actually call and talk to them one at a time.  It gave me an outlet to vent about my frustrations and surprises, and I got to know a lot of interesting people.  Then, after a few years, people started ( Read more... )

I found these critiques of Wreck-It-Ralph online, two reviews by the same person.
A Note on Wreck-It-Ralph
Some Further Thoughts on Wreck-It-RalphI really enjoyed Wreck-It-Ralph, beside the fact that the film is jam-packed with videogame love, but I wasn't able to put my finger to it until I read those articles and felt compelled to respond to them ( Read more... )

Halloween and Cosplay and I have a long, storied love-and-hate relationship ( Read more... )

Gaming Girlfriend Update: Stephie has 76 votes in the Miss Video Game competition. If she can double that number of votes before voting ends on the last day of February, I think she has a really, really good chance of moving on to the online gaming competition round, which Stephie feels really good about. If you haven't voted for her because of ( Read more... )

I didn't go to the drag show yesterday. Instead, I played videogames with people at the Suites. But yesterday I did watch Serenity with Stephie, so now she's seen all of the Firefly universe. Like the most of the population of geekdom, she wants more. :)

Then today, on Sarah's suggestion, we went to see Stranger Than Fiction. It's really ( Read more... )

So, apparently, some Missouri football team did something impressive?*

In interesting news, Halloween is coming up soon. That's something else I've never had the gusto to celebrate properly. Maybe I'll steal Michelle's Hinata costume again? The Prism dance is on the horizon too ( Read more... )

Yesterday evening, Stephanie told me "You make me a better person" with a hug. That made my day yesterday. ^_^

[17:30] cmallo01: Oh ( Read more... )

Well, that wasn't too bad at all. :) Thanks to everyone who came! (my parents came and took me to lunch afterward!)

Seriously, I did just fine and I got a lot of cool questions. And now I shall relax for the rest of the day.

My first waking thought this morning: "There's a brown bear cub in bed with me." And I was thinking besides the three teddy bears. My second thought: "What do I do with it?" Then I actually woke up and realized that there, in fact, was not a brown bear cub ( Read more... )

The past twenty four hours have been "Josh Hurts Himself" day. Three times now I've bashed a finger or elbow against a sharp corner. I swear, computers will be the death of a thousand cuts of me.

As a completely random topic, how do you broach the subject of transsexuality with someone?