In lieu of me being grumpy and whining/venting, I give you a happy dog:


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this photo shows where my head's at these days, I think. Plus I think it's pretty. A lot of research, though I've taken a break to finish off Joe Abercrombie's second novel in his fantasy trilogy (Before They Are Hanged, I think it is called - fun, but jesus, can you make any more unlikable characters? It's like he has a hangup for writing ( Read more... )

Reading up on Malaysian counterterrorism units, I came across the Senoi Praaq, a military unit started during the Malayan Emergency to fight the Maoist insurgency in the country ( Read more... )

Sometimes I think every piece of art that's ever existed is just a cry for help that missed its mark.

Ever had one of those times where you're talking with a friend of a friend at a bar, but you're rambling and you don't remember why you started talking about a certain thing but you still feel the need to keep going ( Read more... )

http://hood.theory.org/ has a neat program that culls craigslist programs for areas that claim to be part of one neighborhood or another. The result shows interesting places where gentrification and cultures mash together, where names and neighborhood identities are in flux, right there in a wash of Seurat pointilism ( Read more... )

This evening before 12 AM we think someone tried to break into the place. Considering the place is behind a house, the door fronts to a garden and rests over a garage, the whole thing was a bit weird. No idea what actually happened -- big rumble down by the front door and I immediately started shouting (for some reason I was thinking of bears, how ( Read more... )

...several things, really. A big post on my trip to Malaysia, a big post on why, various and sundry other smaller posts - like one on my impressions of Paul Tremblay's The Little Sleep along with some perspectives on noir in general ( Read more... )

I went to a gallery yesterday ( Read more... )

http://winter-is-coming.blogspot.com/2009/05/first-cast-member-and-director.html

If this is true... Peter Dinklage as Tyrion? Holyfuckyeah.