Having a little more consistent free time from work and other obligations has made me turn my eye back to some of my writing projects I've let gather dust. Rich always told me that sometimes the best way to get things going again was just to sit down and start writing and writing and not care for exactly what was coming out as long as it was ( Read more... )

Things aren't all that bad. I have a job I have a pretty enviable amount of freedom in. I have a nice home that, if I so chose, I could punch a hole in a wall or put up completely new cabinets. I have my own car. I have the respect and admiration of bigots, drunks, and sexists everywhere. So, as the wise man once asked, "y so srs?"

I have a history ( Read more... )

It's a play on words, you see.

Anyway, someone poked me by IM asking why I had been so quiet preceeding and even after the election. Every couple of years I tend to get a little uh... involved in the process, so a sudden wave of radio silence I guess made him worry if I had a heart attack or if I had finally made good on my ten year old promise ( ( Read more... )

"The cynic wants to believe. But far too much has happened, and inspiration is no longer enough. The cynic will need to be convinced... Someone will have to measure the wreckage. Someone will have to walk through the ruins. Someone will have to count the cost." - The Cynic and Senator Obama, by Charles P. Pierce

It's a four month old article at this ( Read more... )

Brain catharsis, dump crap out of head, go -

I find it funny that PvP in WoW always frustrated me, but when I do it on my Hunter it doesn't feel like... I dunno. Like it "matters". Not that it was some earth shaking issue beforehand, but shooting people in the face and running around I guess just puts me back in TeamFortress mind-mode, so I tend to ( Read more... )

I got subtle, real death threats four years ago around this time, and afterward I figured it just wasn't worth getting into. The internet has given a larger, broader forum for the angry and ignorant to yell their insights loudly and self-righteously, and unfortunately it's a place I stumble into from time to time. Of course, I'm talking about the ( Read more... )

Forgetting Sarah Marshall was fucking hilarious. It was like Superbad in that it had a couple of extremely awesome scenes and one liners, but unlike Superbad in that there was actually a good movie still in between said scenes and zingers. It did tug at my nutsac a little bit over something that's starting to irk the shit out of me - Hollywood's ( Read more... )

I kinda want to put this in here so when I'm older and mellow I can laugh at how angsty I was even in my 20s. While the following rant was prompted to finally be put down in text by a recent event, it is by no means a response to any single or even just recent happening.

I have alot of female friends. In a trend that someone somewhere will likely ( Read more... )

The past week or so has made me want to make a list of "sometimes" for everyone to review. Bear in mind that this is inspired by a wide variety of people, and if you feel like I'm talking to you, who knows ( Read more... )

I didn't vote today. I've already given my excuses in the long form, so here's the short - I don't believe in voting where you don't live, so I didn't vote in Missouri where I'm registered. I didn't know my Texas address till it was too late to register here. The night's winding down and I'm reading election posts, watching election reports, and ( Read more... )