It's been a while since I've been here. A lot has happened. I'm writing because I don't really feel like writing any of the fictions I'm working on... this shooting in Virginia has messed with me somehow. It's strange. I'm not used to caring like this. I prefer sarcasm over earnestness. After 9/11, I was in shock for a day or two, but then I was ( Read more... )

I'm sure the readers here are more than familiar with this theme, but I've been feeling overwhelmed lately. By the future. I know what I want to do, and I think I can do it (though that worry's there too). It's how to go about it. I need to make the decision very soon as to whether I'm applying for Film school in the fall. I want to go to that one ( Read more... )

I helped Chris move out of his apartment downtown yesterday, the one I would kill for. Susan was there, too, and Tim showed up briefly to help haul the television and its even heavier stand around. Once I got home I hemmed and hawed over writing. Lay on the couch for a while. Cooked dinner. Things like that.

Mom is in Pittsburgh for my Aunt Rita's ( Read more... )

It's Spring Break, though for whatever reason it doesn't quite feel like it. It could be the fact that I've run out of money. I haven't started getting paychecks from the radio station yet, and the trip to Albuquerque cleaned me out. I thought today "it might be nice to walk down to the comics store", but then I realized that I didn't have enough ( Read more... )

It's that time of year again. I'm a big fan of movies. I'm a big fan of making lists. This I'm a fan of the Oscars. Here we go ( Read more... )

Here's an idea: an ensemble epic, like "Magnolia" or "Crash" or "Babel". Only instead it's called "North Olmsted" and it's set in suburbia. Instead of "racism is bad" or "people from different countries have trouble understanding each other", its great message will be that people are dumbasses.

I've been very busy between the Programming job at WBWC ( Read more... )

Just saying hey to everyone from Albuquerque, where I'm
attending the 2007 Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA conference. I posted a
while back about how my paper, "Do You Have To Be, Like, Super
Religious?: Private Spirituality vs. Insitutional Christianity in
Buffy the Vampire Slayer," was accepted for presentation at the
conference. I present tomorrow ( Read more... )

I've posted private entries a few times since my last, but I'm starting to get out of touch with you all ( Read more... )

That's what I called Berea tonight on the radio. The temperature tonight has hovered around zero, with winds up to forty miles an hour making it feel even colder. I'm glad I have a warm room to stay in, with a television, a laptop, and a stereo. Unfortunately, I probably should have stocked up on food before this whole development, considering I ( Read more... )

There was a decent amount of media attention the other week when Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez testified before Congress. But where was the mass outrage when he said (and I'm paraphrasing here, but this is completely true) that the Constitution doesn't say you have a right of Habeas Corpus, it just says they can't take away Habeas Corpus. They ( Read more... )