Currently in Chicago, will be here until I fly to Phoenix on Sunday (at last!). Spent a lovely though exhausting day in the city, starting at the Art Institute of Chicago, proceeding to the Shedd Aquarium, and ending briefly at Water Tower Place on Michigan Avenue ( Read more... )

Random/interesting news I discovered today: Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr. Fox will be made into a movie dated for 2006. Wes Anderson, known for Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic, etc., will be directing the film, and it will be done in stop-motion photography by Henry Selick, known for his work with The Nightmare Before Christmas and ( Read more... )

I gave it a chance. I really did. Despite my emphatically vocal aversion to Keira Knightly, I honestly gave her and the latest adaptation of Pride and Prejudice a chance ( Read more... )

New winter theme! Not quite the same look, and actually used a background picture this time. It's rather Frank-Miller-Sin-City-esque, I think. Considered changing layouts as well, but was discouraged by the excessive customization involved with other layouts. Sometimes less is more.

Am feeling very cosmopolitan and capable today. Reasons ( Read more... )

Just a few things of note ( Read more... )

There's nothing quite like contributing to a community service project after playing Quarters for an hour. I'm not sure what the moral implications of that are, but I know at least the humor value is tremendous.

Some of you may or may not remember the Colonel Sanders entry I wrote this summer. One of my personal favorites, actually ( Read more... )

I wish there were a reason for me to be posting other than being too tired to go out yet too bored to go to bed, but unfortunately nothing spectacularly eventful has occured since my last update. Just life as usual, with some inconvenient bouts of illness and stress ( Read more... )

The Sibyl here, reporting live from Chicago O'Hare Airport, on a layover en route to Michigan. (Well, I guess I won't be posting this online until I get to the house, but I suppose you could say that this is "live from a previous recording".) Now that Thanksgiving Break has finally arrived, I feel as though the time has come for a long overdue ( Read more... )