reports from the land of betwixt and between
“The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 2″ (Alan Moore, Kevin O’Neill)
“Fray” (Joss Whedon)
“Fables Vol. 1: Legends in Exile” (Bill Willingham)
“Fables Vol. 3: Storybook Love” (Bill Willingham)
“Watchmen” (Alan Moore)
“The Wooden Sea: A Novel” (Jonathan Carroll)
“After Silence” (Jonathan Carroll)
“Bones of the Moon” (Jonathan Carroll)
Back when I lived in Providence during the late 90s and into the early Aughts, the best pizza in Providence was Pizza Pier on Wickendon Street. I figured that was still the case until the other night when I ordered a “Take and Bake” pizza from Gourmet Pizza, which is on the corner of Hope [...]
I am a product of my culture and a bit of a computer geek and, as such, have an affinity for getting the newest, most up-to-date x (where x = “pretty much damn near anything tech/computer related). Of course, I have never had the income to really pursue that affinity to the lengths that I [...]
I’m trying not to get my hopes impossibly high for this but I haven’t been this excited for a movie since I was 13 and was waiting for Return of the Jedi to be released.
Joy. Elation. Excitement. Pride. Patriotism. Many have already written about the events of yesterdays inauguration, and many will write and talk further about this important moment in our history as a nation.I want to simply say, now is the time for us, the American people, to re-engage with our democracy, and to do so in [...]
I’ve been storing various links in my rss feed reader that I wanted to share with you folks for several weeks now and haven’t gotten around to posting them, so here goes:
Amanda Marcotte has an excellent deconstruction of a recent evolutionary psychology “study.” (You’ll see why the scare quotes if you read her article.) These [...]
Sharing some fun videos. Enjoy!
An amazing film that creates an entire world, offers compelling characters, and scary action scenes and does it in a few minutes and with no dialogue:
9 Nine Shane Acker Short Animation by FrFKmeron A lovely rendition of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” on a ukelele: [...]
Can I just say, by all that is holy, unholy, and iambic pentameter:
He’s a Montague . . . and a Zombie! (Ok, not so much with the iambic pentameter, but still)
These are old photos of a very young Lila, but they are just so frakin’ cute that I wanted to post them. I don’t think I posted much about Lila when Joya and I got her in the fall of 2006 because I’d yet to accept the fact that I went completely bonkers for her. [...]
Fighting the Anti-Science Forces
There are lots of ‘em out there: people who don’t understand the difference between science and religion, people who prefer fantasy to fact, people who think that imposing their own particular reason on children through the school system is a perfectly fine and decent thing to do, people who choose to stick their head in [...]
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