Breakfast cereal migrates. From its nest in the kitchen cabinet, cereal moves to new homes through the house. I have never seen the process of the actual migration. I have only seen the end results. I am not a trained watcher, and I think that perhaps my presence would “spook” the breakfast cereal. Yet, itContinue reading “On Kitchen Migrations”
On Subway Reading
An observation. I tend to notice what people read on the subway and light rail. It’s curiosity, pure and simple, and I try to be subtle about it. Often as not, it’s the newspaper. Either the Baltimore Sun, occasionally something from out of town like the Wall Street Journal or the Washington Post, but moreContinue reading “On Subway Reading”
On Band Names
If there isn’t a band out there named “IKEA Rage,” then there fucking well should be. Because we’re all a little Tyler Durden, y’know? Blogged with the Flock Browser
On Resuming Normal Service
And now, after Retro Weekend, we resume normal blogging service. Who knows? Maybe in a couple of months, I’ll feel the need for another Retro Weekend, I’ll put some Creedance in the old stereo, and we’ll rock out again like it’s 1999. 😆 In the meantime, though, I need coffee. And a good descruffyfication. InContinue reading “On Resuming Normal Service”
On Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen
On a mailing list I subscribe to, discussion turned recently to Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns and Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen. The series were published in 1985 and 1986. Watchmen is credited with beginning the era of “realistic” superheroes, Dark Knight is credited with turning Batman “serious.” It was noted that theContinue reading “On Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen”
On a Retro Weekend
When I was a kid, way back in the early ’80s, a local radio station — Q101, in Harrisonburg, Virginia — used to have “Hot Wax Weekends.” They’d pull music out of the vault and turn back the clocks. It was on a Hot Wax Weekend that I discovered Creedence Clearwater Revival. I first heardContinue reading “On a Retro Weekend”
On E-Mail Inaccessibility
For the record, I love my e-mail client. I use The Bat. I discovered it, what seems like ten years ago, and didn’t begin to use it regularly (yes, finally abandoning Outlook Express) until about 2001. What I love about The Bat is that it works hard to be secure. And that means that it’sContinue reading “On E-Mail Inaccessibility”
On That Thursday Feeling
I have a migraine. I hate it. I have a nasty cough, phlegmy sinuses, and bronchial passages that feel clogged. I hate it. I’m feeling a bit miserable right now. *sigh* So, what about you? Life treating you well? Doing better than me, at least?
On Tortured Similes
I frequently read Penny Arcade. The creators bring a snarky eye to pop culture and video games, and the web comic rarely fails to amuse me. Today’s strip concerns, of all things, literary criticism. Specifically, the tendency in science fiction to invent really complicated similes for really simple comparisons. Throwing in random, made-up words —Continue reading “On Tortured Similes”
On a Mystery That’s No Mystery
I’m currently reading a mystery novel. I have a problem with it, though. It’s not much of a mystery. Here’s the problem. The way the murder is set up, at the end of the first chapter, there are only two characters that have the opportunity to commit the murder. At the end of the secondContinue reading “On a Mystery That’s No Mystery”