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Neglect
Yes, I've fallen out of the whole blogging thing. What can I say? I've sufficient social interaction now such that I feel no need to reach out in this particular forum. That's not to disrespect my gentle readers, and not to say that I'll never come back, but for right now, this journal must lie dormant. -
Book Review: *REAL Ultimate Power: The Official Ninja Book* by Robert Hamburger
Surely, by now, we are all familiar with theREAL Ultimate Power website. And if the gentle reader is *not* familiar with this website, then the gentle reader is no gentle reader of mine ( Read more... ) -
Degeneration
I just received an email from my friend whom I tried to contact last week by means of telephone and email ( Read more... ) -
State of the Metal Address
It falls upon me, on this auspicious occasion of...ummm...Ash Wednesday...to talk about the status of hard rock in these United States of America. Or, more realistically, to at least express my own recent experiences with music ( Read more... ) -
The Absolutely Conclusive Solution to the Burning Question of Our Times
Why is it that *everybody* I know is a pirate sympathizer? I think Johnny Depp has a lot to do with it ( Read more... ) -
On Faith And Skepticism
(A friend asked, on his blog, what skeptics might learn from religion. I cut and paste my response, and reprint it here. I didn't use the word "interconnectedness" in my original response, but I should have. It would've sounded impressive ( Read more... ) -
Absolutely Brilliant Insights into the Human Condition
Everybody whose blog I read seems to have sex on teh brain these days. Pilgrimgirl, and John with an H, and Catbonny, and all those people I interact with on a more or less regular basis ( Read more... ) -
Book Report: *Blood Meridian* II
So here are my long overdue concluding thoughts on *Blood Meridian*, that I'll try to rattle off in about forty minutes, because that's all the time I have ( Read more... ) -
Story Report: "The Ones That Walk Away From Omelas"
I know I said I would finish up on *Blood Meridian*, and that I fibbed a little bit. Ah, gentle reader! I beg your forgiveness. I'll try to do that tomorrow. Would it excuse me if I were to say that I've been spending most of my free time being in love with my girlfriend, and what's left over being in love with *Final Fantasy XII*, the first ( Read more... ) -
EYYYAAAARGGGGHHHH
The banner over my journal today was an advertisement for *Furcadia*, which is apparently a furry MMO. From what I can discern from this website, there is apparently no combat; the essence of the game lies in designing anthropomorphic female cats with rouge and feather boas and come-hither stares and then "interacting with the community." That is ( Read more... )