I love Big Lots. It’s a department store filled with wondrous and magical stuff. Like Golden Compass action figures from France. Or possibly Quebec. I’ve found it’s a fantastic place to buy breakfast cereal. Two dollars a box for good stuff. Sometimes bad stuff, but usually good stuff. Cap’n Crunch good stuff. Rice Krispies goodContinue reading “On Shopping Big Lots and Making Mistakes”
Monthly Archives: May 2008
On Sad Dreams
I remember one of my dreams from last night. It was so vivid, and I was so happy in the dream… …and now, when thinking about it, the dream only makes me sad. I was in a store. I was looking at their DVD section. And they had Doctor Who‘s “Evil of the Daleks” onContinue reading “On Sad Dreams”
On that Friday Feeling
Some days go by in a blur. Some days drag horribly. Today felt like one of the latter. It began with the alarm going off. I’ve never been much of a morning person, and I had one of those “Aww, do I have to get out of bed?” mornings. I adjusted my wake-up time byContinue reading “On that Friday Feeling”
On the Movie I Want To See
Producer Peter Jackson and director Guillermo del Toro held an on-line chat last week where they talked about their plans for the two Hobbit films. Near the end of the chat, del Toro is asked about some comments he had made a few years ago about not being a fan of sword and sorcery fantasyContinue reading “On the Movie I Want To See”
On Baseball Fun
Won at work today — tickets to tonight’s Orioles/Yankees game at Camden Yards. This makes my second Orioles game of the year. Similar seats to last time, along the right field foul line. It’s going to be Teh Awesome! 🙂 Of course, I know I’ll be watching the out-of-town scoreboard, to keep up on theContinue reading “On Baseball Fun”
On the Greatest Search Phrase Ever
Yesterday, someone in Bournemouth, England, went to Google and typed in the following: appalled by indiana jones, george lucas and the fiver i wasted last night Which brought him — I presume it’s a him — to my internet doorstep. “Fiver.” I like that word. 🙂 No real content. Just the word “fiver.” And also,Continue reading “On the Greatest Search Phrase Ever”
On Melting
Today, it’s been a melty sort of day. My brain melted. I wrote. I wrote a lot. A lot of what I wrote is even good. All told, it was a 12k day. But, that takes a lot out of the gray matter. It leaves it melty. My body melted. For some reason, today CharmContinue reading “On Melting”
On The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
It’s hard to believe it’s been nineteen years since Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Nineteen! Years! I was a junior in high school. The summer hadn’t started yet. And opening weekend, I went to see it with my younger brother at the movie theater in Bridgeport, West Virginia. A few weeks later, with someContinue reading “On The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”
On Things I’ve Been Reading
Recently, I’ve begun buying comic books again. I used to buy a lot of comics. In retrospect, it’s a bit embarrassing. And then, somewhere in the late ’90s, I stopped buying comics on any sort of regular basis. I’d visit comic shops occasionally if something was coming out that I was interested in — like,Continue reading “On Things I’ve Been Reading”
On Geeking Out
I had two packages waiting for me at home when I got home from work last night. One was from WhoNA. The other, a surprise, was from the UK. I’d received my contributor’s copy of Doctor Who: Short Trips: The Quality of Leadership. And, because I’d ordered one from WhoNA earlier in the week, thinkingContinue reading “On Geeking Out”