These entries are rolling out slower than I anticipated. The semester is winding down, which means lots of lots of work. But, since I am relatively homework-free this weekend, I figure I might as well get a few posts in.

The last three posts chronicled the train ride between Chicago and New York City and my first few hours in the Big Apple. We pick ( Read more... )

So, I saw "Super" yesterday at Chicago's very own Music Box Theatre. From what I understood, the movie was a labor of love for director James Gunn. I understood that he had hard time finding distributors. According to the early reviews, the movie was a bit disturbing. But I love independent films, and I enjoy superhero comics, so I decided to check ( Read more... )

( General thoughts )

Happy 4th of July to all my American readers... which is pretty much everyone. Me, I still don't feel too sentimental about it, but I do enjoy partaking in the celebrations. As usual, there are plenty of fireworks being launched from people's back yards, and there will be fireworks down in Chicago, but I am not going there because it's bloody ( Read more... )

About two weeks ago or so, I started writing the Margaret Okuda story, because it kept on nagging and nagging on the back of my skull with dogged persistence. Margaret is a character that migrated from story idea to story idea. Originally, she was a second-generation Japanese-American girl with a businessman father who got her hands on a Total ( Read more... )