Claire got smacked with the stomach bug this weekend. She seems to be over it already (which was more in line with what he heard about all the other kids at Ollie's daycare) but still. Bummer ( Read more... )

@U2 has a blog post about the new upcoming U2 album...or the lack thereof, and the flip-floppery that's surrounded it for about three years now. For example: Bono suggested "a more meditative album on the theme of pilgrimage" might come out the same year as No Line on the Horizon. Damn, that would've been sweet. Then we heard 2010. Then we heard ( Read more... )

Remember that Star Wars: Clone Wars embargo I mentioned last week over at AICN?  Well, Moriarty, the only major AICN reviewer "who kinda liked" the  Clone Wars movie has thrown in his Star Wars towel and given his reasons for doing so, instead of actually reviewing the movie.  The short version, in his words: "George Lucas didn't rape anything.  ( Read more... )

It started raining here Thursday.  Raining really hard.  Which isn't much of a problem, really.  Usually, I love it when it rains here, especially if it's in the middle of the summer (because it NEVER lasts, you see).  But the problem with it raining was that Chris, one of my longest and best friends, was coming over for dinner with his family.  ( Read more... )

The woman in front of me ran over a dog on the way to work.  At first, I didn't think she hit the little pekinese, it looked like it had stopped short.  Then I saw the dog jump up and start to limp away.  I pulled over to the side of the road but the woman who hit the dog didn't stop.  Two Asian women came running down the street in their pajamas ( Read more... )

Bummers travel in tribes of three.  I got a new rejection today for "In the Belly of the Whale."  It was nice, in that it was another personal rejection and the editor told me what worked and didn't work for them (the afforementioned aliens and the repentance scene) but I'd be lying if it doesn't sting.  "In the Belly of the Whale" is an updated ( Read more... )