-Arrived late because of a jumper on the subway ( Read more... )

Health care ought to remain an inefficient, government-run business not because that's a better way to treat people in the short term, but because it promotes the right goals for the long-term: getting rid of the system entirely (or at least as much as we can). Privatizing health care will make the business owners want to keep us sick so that they ( Read more... )

So, this thing was making the rounds about facebook and I thought it was pretty rad. It didn't hurt that I ended up with a Nietzsche quotation. So, here goes:

1 - Go to "wikipedia." Hit “random” or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RandomThe first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band ( Read more... )

I've had probably about four or so different ideas for updates in the past few weeks, but none of them came to fruition. This means that you will undoubtedly have to suffer through the worst of it. That's okay, since this entry doesn't have anything about the word twenty-five in the title and thus relatively few will give it a glance ( Read more... )

Yeah, so upon reflection that last entry was probably really boring to most of you. Well, you know what? I don't really care. I have fun writing sometimes, just for me. So, on that note, what am I gonna do? I'm going to write a whole lot more about things that few of you will probably care about.

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I may have mentioned this before, but I think film has so much potential for engaging storytelling. Too many movies are written like books (likely since so many films are based on books). Movies should be written more like songs - swelling and moving up and down with time. I suppose that in general I simply think that people should explore the ( Read more... )

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So, I'm visiting "home" for the period of time indicated above. Include me in your plans. Meet up with me. Plan it now or the time will slip past all of us. I want to see all of you, time permitting.

I guess my phone ran out of batteries at some point in the past few days. Unsurprising that I wouldn't really notice. I think I've used it... three times in the past two weeks? Something like that ( Read more... )

So, I saw the Polysics play on Wednesday, and that was the best twelve and a half dollars I have ever spent or will ever spend. One of the opening acts was almost cool at times, but their lead singer was the result of what happens when Robert Plant is allowed to live with the Hobbits at the Shire for a little too long, and their bassist (who ( Read more... )