I started writing this as a comment on this post by bjcooper, then it got long. So, here are my thoughts on “social networking” sites… A few years ago I started complaining about how my friends never bothered to send email anymore, they just talked about stuff on LiveJournal. (Or,Continue Reading
I followed "The Wish," as I often do, with "Doppelgangland". This episode is from later in season three, and it’s a direct follow-up to "The Wish." We meet Anya the (ex) vengeance demon again, and, oh yeah, Evil Vampire Willow makes another appearance. In fact, she gets a lot moreContinue Reading
I wanted to follow up my somewhat controversial anti-cake position with what I imagine is an even more controversial opinion: I hate jeans. I do not wear them. Ever. I wore jeans like everybody else until I had an epiphany somewhere in the middle of college — I realized that,Continue Reading
George W. Bush is now gone. He is no longer the president. He is an ex-president. Even his dwindling hardcore base doesn’t seem terribly sad to see him go, really. Maybe they’re getting tired of defending him, weary of the increasingly elaborate and strenuous mental gymnastics it takes to explainContinue Reading
Saw this over the weekend. It’s excellent at being exactly the movie it intends to be, and exactly the movie you want when you watch a low budget horror comedy called Zombie Strippers. Plenty of zombies. Plenty of strippers. And plenty of zombie strippers. It’s ninety minutes long, and there’sContinue Reading
So, the PI had this article about a woman who gave up refined sugar for a year. The thing that amazed and annoyed me about this article was the way giving up sugar was treated as being such a big deal. You know, a "test of willpower," a "reflection onContinue Reading
Last night’s make-dishes-tolerable randomly-selected entertainment was season three Buffy episode "The Wish." It remains one of my favorites. It has a solid story, fascinating alt-world building, fabulous new characters, a devastating emotional punch, and is one of very few Buffy episodes to actually be, mostly, a horror story. Maybe IContinue Reading
paulcarp: I hate the way bacon has become so trendy. Me: Honey, you didn’t invent bacon. paulcarp: Bacon is my thing.Continue Reading
It’s almost Christmas and I’m sitting in the exercise room. It used to be my brother Michael’s room. Then I think it was the sewing room, but now the room that used to be my room is the sewing room, unless John’s old room is now the sewing room. AtContinue Reading
Just in case you haven’t seen this yet, here is a link to a lame attempt to make us feel sympathy for somebody who donated to California’s Proposition 8. The editorial is extremely manipulative — right from the headline."A life thrown into turmoil by $100 donation for Prop. 8" —Continue Reading
Saw Twilight over the weekend. It was better than syphilis. I’m also pretty sure it was better than a couple of the movies in the previews, Bride Wars and Confessions of a Shopaholic, both of which made me sort of want to shoot someone in the face. Twilight is frequentlyContinue Reading
I didn’t intend to do NaNoWriMo this year until about October 28, when an idea suddenly popped into my head. This idea was an actual plot sketch for an idea that I’ve been kicking around for a couple of years, which never got much beyond the premise: “Beach Reading,” anContinue Reading