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Book Report: *Blood Meridian*
Yes, I could continue to complain about my trip, but it might be a better use of my time and the gentle reader's time to make good on a long-standing promise to offer up my thoughts on Cormac McCarthy's *Blood Meridian*. The inimical tone of the human interactions on my stay in Oregon afforded me the opportunity to sit around and read a lot, and I ( Read more... ) -
Oregon Trail
Guess who's back? Back again. Real Hussein. I'm not dead ( Read more... ) -
Post-Haste
Look at me, all making journal posts again and shit, after a long hiatus ( Read more... ) -
Fuck tha Police
The gentle reader already knows that I am inclined to take walks in the morning, before the dawning of the sun. This has brought me into contact and conflict with the brave men of the Irvine Police Department on more than one occasion. Normally, the encounters are brief and courteous and end without incident. This morning, though, was different ( Read more... ) -
Christmas Analysis II
So yeah. I didn't get around to talking about Christmas, actually ( Read more... ) -
Christmas Analysis
I think all of my gentle readers--save one--are away on vacation at the moment. Which means that none of my gentle readers--save one--will read these postings today--if my gentle readers read these postings at all. And for that gentle reader, this stuff will all be old hat. But that's okay ( Read more... ) -
Where is there a will?
Oh yeah. I have a journal, huh? I forgot ( Read more... ) -
On *Planescape: Torment*
I picked this game back up again yesterday after a hiatus of some weeks. Of course, when I picked the game back up again a few months ago, this was after a hiatus of some years. I bought *Planescape* within a year of its release, but was thwarted in my playing efforts by some kind of insoluble glitch that caused the game to crash every time I ( Read more... ) -
Twenty, twenty, twenty-four hours ago
So here I am, enjoying my first days as a free man by...staying sick at home, watching season five of *24* on DVD, eating a lot of microwave popcorn and drinking a lot of orange juice ( Read more... ) -
Paradigm Shift
What's this? I promise to be more consistent in my journal entries, and on the very first day after my promise, I give the gentle reader nothing to sink his metaphorical mental teeth into ( Read more... )