Well, dammit, I finally get a chance at something resembling a vacation and y'all go and let the final sign of the Apocalypse happen while I was out of town. Just don't say I didn't warn you.

I appear to have thrown myself wholeheartedly into worldbuilding for New Sekrit Project. Have to balance that with not neglecting Previous Sekrit Project, assuming anyone's still following that...

What I'm hung up at right now is the part where Muse, in-her-infinite-wisdom, seems to have mentally cast the Bernard Marx-y role in her Brave New World ( Read more... )

Still sewing up blanket -- edges done, now I have to experiment with ways to secure the strips to one another in the middles. This may well take another year ( Read more... )

The problem with The Graduate is that the narrative endorses the protagonist's self-absorption rather than commenting upon it. Discuss:

(This essay-question brought to you by the late-night realisation that hey, I'd never seen it all the way through, followed several hours later by the late-night realisation RE why I'd never stuck with it, which ( Read more... )

BTW, it has now been proven by SCIENCE! that yes, this area is just about as flat as it gets. Inner Trevor will just be over here complaining about the lack of scenery on the road-trip some more...

So, I haven't been imagining this all this while:


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I don't think I've taken Inner Trevor to a garage sale before.


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It's distressing to realise just how much of my long-term plan for my life has been basically 'not getting run over by a bus before 23rd November 2013'.

Perhaps I should consider piracy.

This object appears to be an inflatable slide. ("You know -- for kids!")


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Polling the Man-In-The-Street: what names of individuals or persons known as heads of groups, besides Osama bin Laden and Gavrilo Princip, would you think of off the top of your head as having ( Read more... )