Monthly Archives: December 2008

Rather than a best of list, these are the things that I got the most out of this year.  If you haven’t seen/heard/tried these, maybe you should.  Not in any particular order: 1.  Video Game – PS – Rock Band.  … Continue reading →

Next Thursday begins a new age in my life. It is not only the first day of January. It is not only the first day of 2009. It is not only the 14,801st day of my life. It is the … Continue reading →

It so happens that today after my wife had finished her final final this semester and I’d put in three hours at a local middle school making sure lunch time did not become a scene out of a early teen … Continue reading →

I’m just thinking tonight about the footy club and Saturday’s PL match against ManU(re).  I’m going to break my doctor’s orders and drink a Black and Tan for the game, and probably have a squeaker, too.  And, hopefully, have something … Continue reading →

Is it that time again? 1.  I watched "Mindwalk" again and am re-realizing that the space in atoms is about as easy to understand as the flecks of belly button lint that magically appear. 2.  I may be insane, but … Continue reading →

Two hundred transfixed, placed by levels, handed incomplete props and no proper introductions, left to sleep or read or fall into window watching trances. We sit with snacks and waters, waiting for the liquor trolley, reading instructions of emergency exits … Continue reading →

Beside the hills and yellowed grasses and six-inch, wood-stump, barbed-wire fences, once branch stripped and laid out by brothers days upon days until they divided the land, he watches – staring above at the one soaring,  selecting gusts, rising and falling based on whims and animal instinct … Continue reading →

‘Cause she knows that It’d be tragic If those evil robots win I know she can beat them The Flaming Lips: "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" I do hardly anything anymore without the aid of some sort of technology.  I … Continue reading →

I had Wednesday off this last week, which means I got off from the main job at 7 am on Tuesday and spent the rest of my time last week twiddling my thumbs, playing Civ. That is, until I heard … Continue reading →