It is Jan 8th, 2010, and I am staring down the wrong end of an all-nighter with punk music on my headphones and a 2 liter next to me. The 2 liter happens to be of water, but the all-nighter is because I have a bit of work due to my spending the entire day talking to a girl instead of doing said work ( Read more... )

I've been watching a lot of South Park lately, and the show's creators really don't like liberals (as commonly defined), and said persons are often portrayed as militant crazies in the show. Now, South Park creates humor by exaggerating the odd and stupid things people do, but what I have seen and experienced elsewhere inclines me to believe that ( Read more... )

Holy crap! It is wonder. It is amazement that I am missing. I have become too pragmatic, too practical, too serious. I re-learned it a little late this year, but I want to feel genuinely thankful for the little things again. It has been a while ( Read more... )

I looked in the mirror to see what I saw. I took the saw and sawed the mirror in half. I put the two halves together to make a whole. I crawled through the hole and escaped ( Read more... )

So I've figured it out. The whole thing seems so vulgar to me. It has become a cartoon version of itself. It has become pornographic ( Read more... )

I suppose that living in Illinois (and perhaps the whole Midwest) is living landlocked. It isn't about physically being away from water. It is being very aware of your boundaries (be they real or imagined). Possibilities are all fine and good, but in general, your average Illinoisan is more sensible than that ( Read more... )

So I went on my first "date" in Thailand yesterday. It wasn't a planned date. I was wingman for my friend, and his date brought a friend. But, I suppose when all things are considered in the way Thai culture works, I went on a double date ( Read more... )

So I'm going to try to do this without getting too livejournaly, but I don't know that I will be successful in such an endeavor ( Read more... )

In light of my last attempt at bashing Dan Brown, I received a slightly humorous article about the 20 worst quotes in Dan Brown's books. I tend to disagree with the article's author, but it is hard to pick just 20. Still, that isn't what this is about ( Read more... )

Subtitled: Why Dr. John Watson kicks Robert Langdon's AssI've been trying to reach back to my elementary school days to remember the names of the various different points of view in writing. I've got a few of them down pat. 1st person and 3rd person come most easily to mind. 2nd person, of course, is relegated almost solely to Self-Help and ( Read more... )