At the almost end of the day, the fader pulling back slowly in the sky, the earphones pop out and I can hear the high D-flat hum of my laptop and the hiss of brisk conditioned air seeping in from the ceiling vent. I rub my eyes and focus them out then in, out then in. A deep breath confirms that my posture has again misaligned, my back reassuming ( Read more... )

Comic-con happened and I barely noticed. This is the first year that I haven't been pressganged into Comic-Con attendance. And by pressganged I mean had a free pass slapped into my hand and allowed to freely roam the bright show floor and oggle toys and games and have people with which to share little fixations about robot tanks and Peanuts ( Read more... )

I'm kinda down. Today. And in general. I'm getting a lot of practice appearing well adjusted when I am in-the-guts-maladjusted, or just plain unadjusted, which is how I like to leave things. However, things like pool parties and birthday barbecues necessitate the divorce of mood from behavior. I'm beginning to appreciate not having to do so in ( Read more... )

Sometimes I read something and it makes me want to write. Not just write, but be a writer. Ages ago, I read an essay, a story, in which nothing really happened, but somehow the way time flows between flickers of touching little moments was conveyed in a few thousand words. And I was touched ( Read more... )

There are a number of people I 'place' myself in front up when I write these things. As much as they're meant to act as a sort of dialogue. I read them as such when I go back a dig through them to see what was going on every few months ago or so ( Read more... )

I've just returned from the nearby land of Arizona. The topic of why I was in Arizona is a highly academic one, but it can be easily summarized in two succinct statements. It was free. I was bored. Actually, it wasn't quite free. I spent seven dollars on two hot dogs, soggy fries, and a root beer. When the cashier rang it up, I saw +corndog ( Read more... )

So, waking up for the first time after a trip to Vegas is usually a pretty trying thing. Being buried in a stupor for dozens of hours is hard to just snap out of. But coming out of the haze at about 9pm the Tuesday after, I felt that unvanquishable tremor that comes with doing things that only young people are capable of doing. My recollection ( Read more... )

Right now, I mean right at this very moment, I am doing an amazing amount of things all at once. With my left hand, I am doing my job. It is a part of my job that is very repetitive and involves listening for snippets of a video loop that contains commercials for the movie The Rock, a boxing match between Mike Tyson and Francois Botha, and the ( Read more... )

The Wire is over. Now, being unsatisfied by a series conclusion isn't uncommon. I'm hard pressed to think of any finale of a series I enjoyed that was anything more than barely satisfying. I've said in the past that I feel that The Wire ended with Season 3. Seasons 4 and 5 have been nice additions, but haven't been nearly as compelling since ( Read more... )

I've just ctrl-shift-home deleted about 2000 words because frankly, there's not really anything to write about. I'm doing pretty good, which is to say, things are frightfully boring and nothing of note has happened in about two weeks. Soon, I will get restless and attempt something "in the high sigmas", as we like to say in statistical jargon, ( Read more... )