I spent the last few weeks watching all of Avatar: The Last Airbender. I've known about it for years and known that it was supposed to be good for quite a few of them, but I never really had any interest in knowing more about it. My initial exposure to the existence of the show was a couple of LEGO sets (clearly from the first season) that, not ( Read more... )

I finished Season 1 of Lost today, and I report that, so far, I am completely on board with this train. Among other things, it has reawakened my latent lust for impossibly lonely South Pacific islands. I remember being fascinated by them, thanks to a couple of rather terrible books I read when I was about 9 or 10, as a kid. Part of this is ( Read more... )

So I started an author-blog here on LiveJournal (http://beiorthil.livejournal.com) to go with my book, and after posting there I wandered back to this older account to see what was new here. And what was new was a spam-comment on a post from the Summer of 2009. Well, I went to delete the spam ( Read more... )

There are some letters in the Archives that make me laugh, because the writers are so serious and their texts so improbably authoritative, the only healthy thing to do is laugh.  The excerpt from the following letter would be one:

Your Grace,

The hierarchy is contemptuous of women as is the present pope.  He does not have the intellectual capacity ( Read more... )

I have just--and I really do mean JUST--finished American Gods , by Neil Gaiman.  Or, to put it in other words, I have just blown about five hours of evening since I got home from work, in and around supper, checking the Internet, and not doing anything useful or creative, on speeding through the latter 3/5 of this modern fantasy work (to give it ( Read more... )

Well, I'm kind of amazed at myself... I'm actually using LiveJournal in order, of all things, to update a story.

( Lego Story Hidden By Courteous Cut--More on Page A14 )

For lack of a better name, this story has been called "Grandfather's Tale," since the young brats listening call the storyteller "Grandfather." It's mostly just a free-flowing LEGO-related story that may or may not interest you... but if the LEGO is a bit esoteric for my LiveJournal friends' list, the storytelling or epic end may be more up your ( Read more... )

So, in case anyone's wondering, the weather has reset itself a week... the picture I posted last post could have been taken today, no problem.  It's nice out--generally snow weather is warm weather for winter--but dangerous.  All the ice I was talking about yesterday, because of the melting spell, has not gone away, and it's right there under the ( Read more... )

Just plain weird gets my vote...

So, the parish I'm living at is in an okay neighbourhood no longer quite on the edge of the city, but certainly not downtown.  It doesn't have gangs and dope-peddlars on the corners, but there is graffiti.  Not much, but it's there... a lot of the newly redone sidewalk has little red swastikas on them, which I guess ( Read more... )

It took entirely too long, but nearly a month after all the other seminarians, I am finally moved out for the summer, having wrapped my spring session science course on Friday.  I'm now resident at one of the city parishes, with two priests and sleeping with my girlfriend (a sweet ten-ish year old tabby with a winning disposition) again.  As a ( Read more... )