Eager to say goodbye to the worst economic year since the Great Depression? You’ll have to wait a second. That’s because the custodians of time are preparing to tack a “leap second” onto the clock on Wednesday to account for…
Year: 2008
Xmas Movie Marathon 2008
Every year, on December 25th, D and I spend all day at the movies. We were excited this year because we now live half a mile from Cinetopia, an all-digital venue which is the third best theatre I’ve ever visited.*…
Tired of Xmas Flicks Yet?
I’m not. Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966)The original animated version, not the Y2K Jim Carrey abomination. D and I just watched this tonight, and what’s not to love? Directed by Chuck Jones, with Boris Karloff narrating and…
Blasts From the Past
Back in the summer of 1991 (after I graduated high school), I hooked up a VHS VCR to a monaural VHS camcorder with flying erase head and manually edited together a music video using footage from my home-taped episodes of…
It’s Snowing
One of the reasons we moved to the Portland area was for the fairly mild climate. My memories of the Chicago-area winters are not happy ones. I do not enjoy scraping ice off my car. Nor do I ever, Ever,…
More Xmas Flicks
Because no one asked for it, but I was thinking about it… Go (1999)Clever, fast-paced fun with Sarah Polley, Taye Diggs, Katie Holmes, Jay Mohr, and lots of other actors you recognize from their more popular movies. But don’t take…
Making Good Art
Okay, I’m back. I spent most of yesterday with that fuzzy, unfocused feeling in my head that I always get after a good cry–it lasted longer than usual, but I’m mostly recovered now. My dad’s flying back to Taiwan in…
May your days be merry and bright
I’ve been pretty useless for anything requiring brain power today–specifically, writing. Grief is tiring. So I tidied up the office (mostly moved boxes into the closet), finished assembling one of the CD shelves in the living room, and digitized an…
A Death in the Family
My paternal grandfather passed away last night. I got the news by email, which my dad forwarded from my uncle, who was in Taipei with grandpa. They’d just taken him to the hospital that day; it was all very sudden….