Didn't post a great deal in 2011, off doing other things mostly. It was the year of the Arab Spring and the Occupies; the year I got this keen new apartment; a crummy year professionally and an excellent year personally. It was a year I very much hope you all enjoyed. Merry Christmas, everybody ( Read more... )

The thing about the lovely D. is that she's not a nerd*. And, and here's the bit that's inexplicable to me, has no nerd friends. You could walk into a barn full of Friends O' D. and start singing the Ballad of Jayne and they would look at you funny. I thought we as a race had evolved beyond that, what with the San Diego Comiccons and so on, but ( Read more... )

I remind everybody of the Ormond System, in which you're not allowed to bump things in your Netflix queue. Whatever order you added them 9 months ago, possibly while drunk, that's the order you get them.

Next 5 things in Netflix queue:
Annie Hall
Spaced: The Complete Series
Winter's Bone
Through a Glass Darkly (I. Bergman)
Freakazoid!: Season 1 ( Read more... )

One last day of film going. We start with SXSW!: The Story of South by Southwest (not exact title), a documentary about the festival I am currently attending. Tells story of how the festival grew from spunky regional underdog funded by the local alt-weekly to the current lovable imitator-down-shutting behemoth. At one point, they pause for a ( Read more... )

Downtown _really_ smells of beer ( Read more... )

The AV Club had an article a couple of weeks ago in their ongoing "Taste Test" section about Japanese candy drops.

Starts off with a bit of milieu:

The country is currently experiencing a boom in "candy drops," the little tins of hard candies familiar to Studio Ghibli fans from the film Grave Of The Fireflies, a beautiful but heartbreaking ( Read more... )

44 miles in 3.5 hours, holed up in Pauls Valley with jerky, dried apricots, cheese log. Variety!

So hey, I've been in Austin. Apparently there's a snowpocalypse and no one in OK will be able to move twenty feet from their homes for the next two days? (Also, something something Egypt?) As you'll recall the last time a historic snowpocalypse trapped OKC in their cozy homes, I was stuck at my parents. And the time before that, I was trapped in ( Read more... )

Since we talked last Tuesday, I have finished my Christmas card, seen the Charlie Chaplin movie where he's a serial killer, had delicious trifle, been to the Toy and Action Figure Museum of Pauls Valley, been insulted by a Greek waiter, sent off via Fed Ex an undead Dia de Los Muertos burro and six Carlos V bars, been physically restrained from ( Read more... )

Back from Milwaukee, again. American misplaced my luggage on the way up, but were nice enough to deliver it to the hotel. Had local beers, hamburgers. Filled all Trader Joe's shopping orders from interested parties. Spent part of Thursday late afternoon after wrap-up desperately crusing the internet for a thirteenth funky local eating ( Read more... )