I'm driving to Alton for Festivus this year again, and find myself at the end of my last full day at home poring over a mental list to make sure I don't forget anything. I thought I'd make it more tangible.

Rental Car: Picked up and loaded from my car. It's nice; a Mercury something or other. It's got Sirius radio, but most of the channels I ( Read more... )

Though the New Year is thoroughly arbitrary to me, personally, I'm coming to terms with December as an enormous annual hurdle. ( I find I no longer care for December... )

Listening, as I often do, to the occasional ramblings of the church broadcasts for which I run the board on Sunday mornings, today I heard two things that made me ( flinch. )

'Tis the season for overexposure to crappy Xmas shit, and one of the most pandering and offensive standards is Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, which is also one of the most commonly retold and referenced Xmas stories. Despite my love for the movie Scrooged -- Bill Murray is always excellent -- I detest the story. I've always felt it was an ( Read more... )

I went to Fry's this afternoon after driving to Glen Ellyn to see Good Night, and Good Luck -- everyone see this movie! -- and after struggling to find a parking spot and wading through a ton of people and discussing the tradition of Festivus with my movie buddy, then engaging in a short conversation on digital video and DVD burning with a fellow ( Read more... )

Complex travel plans
Eight hours in a tiny car
Lonely kitties wait

As I write this, I wonder why I'm suddenly interested in haikus.

My cynicism surprises me not one whit.

( Last Friday, Revisited )

( Starting with this past weekend... )

Having been invited to a Hallowe'en party next month, I find myself wondering at the costumes I can put together. I don't work with clothing, so it will have to be cobbled together from elements that resemble something else.

( Here's the list I've compiled thus far. )