Month: November 2005

Hey, this is fun. The Electronic Frontier Foundation‘s Action Center makes it easy to send a letter to my elected representatives by email or fax, or even to print out a hard copy. Here’s the letter I just submitted to…

I hate to sound callous, but after the headline Three die playing catch with grenade, Reuters actually says: “It was not clear why the grenade exploded.” Hello? Because it’s a fucking grenade. The more pertinent question is, why were two…

I don’t usually write letters to my legislative representatives– it feels marginally more useful than signing online petitions– but I just read a news article that chills me to the bone. I’ve sent the following letter by email to Senator…

The best gifts are the unexpected ones — ones that become amazing. My friend Curtis gave me the Firefly series on DVD for my birthday. He had talked about this Western-meets-SciFi concept before where people speak bits of Chinese. It…

The juxtaposition of the genteel and the vulgar always makes for a good laugh. It worked for Monty Python, it works for The Daily Show, and it is teh r0x0r on Penny Arcade. I couldn’t stop laughing at the second…

I love the Flick Filosopher, and the Flick Filosopher loves me. Or at least my caption.

This morning’s links took me from Neil Gaiman’s blog to Wikipedia to screenwriter William Richert’s web site. Now, Richert may rightly have an ax to grind, but everything on his web site smacks of either sour grapes or self-aggrandizement. Okay,…