Time to celebrate spring! But first: I’m serious. Do NOT click the “play” button below unless you’re prepared to see and hear graphic depictions of adult situations. Yes, it is just WoW machinima, but it’s quite explicit. You have been…
Month: April 2008
Free Comic Book Day
Since we’re currently traveling, and I don’t have the time or access to resources I would at home, I get my news from an odd variety of sources. For example, it was a hotel copy of USA Today, perused over…
Jane’s Forbidden Book Kingdom
Over the weekend, D and I saw two movies from opposite ends of the genre spectrum: The Forbidden Kingdom (in a theatre) and The Jane Austen Book Club (on DVD). Both were enjoyable, for different reasons. Kingdom is all archetypes…
Trash, Treasure, and Trade
THDI, a term coined by my friend Jeff, stands for “Trash Heap Development Index.” Remember that for later. Two weekends ago, as part of the process of moving out of our house, D and I sorted all our worldly possessions…
Smart People
Editorial Note: Since I’ll be on the road for the next few months, most of my blogging will happen over on Travels With Our Cats. You can subscribe to both blogs using my combined feed from Yahoo! Pipes. (Not responsible…
Separated at Build
When we met our landlord this morning to do the final walk-through of the house we’d been renting on Calderon Avenue, he told us about another house on the other side of town with the same distinctive facade. Whenever we…
Today In History: One Week Ago
Last Wednesday, for my belated birthday present, D took me on the “Deluxe VIP” Warner Brothers studio tour. (I didn’t want to do it last fall because of the writers strike. I won’t cross a picket line.) The tour was…
Death, Taxes, and Change
“[I]n this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” — Benjamin Franklin, letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy (1789) “Nothing endures but change.” — Heraclitus of Ephesus (c.535 BC – 475 BC) The house is all packed…
A New Blog
It’s a family thing: DeeAnn and I will be blogging about our road trip/big move on Travels With Our Cats, and as the title implies, we’ll see if we can also coax Bayla and Jasper into posting every now and…