jake will not be going to japan via the JET program this summer.

01. Name a movie that you have seen more than 10 times ( Read more... )

as of yesterday my JET program (japanese english teaching program thingie) application arrived at the embassy with mere hours to spare on the deadline.  i'm nothing if not punctual (and a huge procrastinater).  so now i wait and see if i get an interview, then if i get chosen, then syanara!  maybe when i come back the country will be cooler, though ( Read more... )

i don't know if it is because school has started and i'm not in it or if it's the girlfriend's influence or what, but i've been all kinds of motivated lately and actually have a lot of things going on in my life.  i'm still not writing much, but i'm in a writer's group, and will have to produce something soon or they may crucify me.  i bought a ( Read more... )

writing about John McCain and Sarah Palin

Eve Ensler, the American playwright, performer, feminist and activist best known for "The Vagina Monologues", wrote the following about Sarah Palin:

( Ensler's essay )

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to read at school and hated.
5) Reprint this list in your ( Read more... )

when there are so many desires to do different things in life, like hobbies, for instance, i end up finding that i get the new thing and try it only for a while because others intrude. but you never get good at anything if you always do like i do. on the verge of a new hobby, i'd say it will bring the total of my time-absorbing hobbies up to ( Read more... )

jim rigney, otherwise known as robert jordan, author of the sometimes sometimes wonderful, sometimes bad, always long Wheel of Time saga, died yesterday, leaving an incomplete last novel. they say he left all major plot stuff with his family and parts may be ghost-written just so fans will know what the hell happens after 10,000 or so pages and 17 ( Read more... )

i guess this is 1-49 of the 5000 question survey. time is short so the answers will be too tonight.
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neato fantasy books are gonna be a movie. it's a good year for fantasy lovers.