I had a great day yesterday with my fiance's family! Lots of food, drink, and conversation. When we settled at home, I was surfing between an HBO show on adult film (which I had already seen) and a Discovery channel documentary on Scrabble. That was quite interesting, as I never saw a competitive game of Scrabble before. The movie featured two ( Read more... )

I'm home, watching the U.S. Chess Championship, round 1.

http://www.uschesschampionship.com/index.html

This morning is one of those mornings when all the coffee in the world doesn't seem like enough to jump start the brain. I told the barista this morning that my brain was malfunctioning, but then corrected myself to say non-functioning ( Read more... )

On Saturday night, I saw the last show of Mike Watt and the Secondmen at the Big Fish Pub in Tempe. The first half of the show was the playing of the current album, an opera based on Dante's Inferno as a reflection on Mike's sickness from a couple of years ago. The encore included Bob Dylan's It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding). I left quite ( Read more... )

I just started R U Sirius' and Dan Joy's book last night. I am excited to have it! On the flip side, I bought the Clinton autobiography two months ago. As much as I do plan to read it, it just does not grab me right now. (I think I've overdosed on politics as of late.) Fortunately, a close friend is interested in it, so I will loan it out so ( Read more... )