Three weeks ago I’d mentioned how some phrases kept turning up in my search logs, phrases related to LEGO Doctor Who. Strangely, after writing about the need for LEGO Doctor Who products, people stopped “asking.” Go figure. Howsomever, LEGO searches have remained popular. Just from the last week: LEGO Batman Killer Croc LEGO Frodo StarContinue reading “On Other Needed LEGOs”
Monthly Archives: November 2007
On Dealing With Content Theft
In late October I discovered that someone was plagiarising my blog posts on a website, reason unknown. The website looked to have dozens of others’ contents, presumably to game Google’s page-ranks or somesuch. I could have shrugged. Seriously, how do you fight that shit? I sent him an invoice. I’m handy with a computer. IContinue reading “On Dealing With Content Theft”
On Dreariness
We’re into our third day of rain. It’s just dreary. Tuesday wasn’t terrible. Just wet. Wednesday was foggy. At one point mid-morning, looking out the windows in the office, it looked like the office was inside a cloud. And then it cleared. And then it rained. And now it’s windy and rainy and windy. AndContinue reading “On Dreariness”
On Literature Abuse
Something fun on this dreary Wednesday morning, an e-mail forward I received, credit unknown: SELF-TEST FOR LITERATURE ABUSERS How many of these apply to you? I have read fiction when I was depressed, or to cheer myself up. I have gone on reading binges of an entire book or more in a day. I readContinue reading “On Literature Abuse”
On Revisiting the Wardrobe
Recently I acquired Disney’s extended cut DVD of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. It was released last Christmas and left on the market for about six weeks, whereupon it was pulled. Like The Lord of the Rings extended editions, this was a four-disc affair, released both as a regular four-disc edition and asContinue reading “On Revisiting the Wardrobe”
On “Two of Us”
I always liked this song: Two of us riding nowhere spending someone’s hard earned pay You and me Sunday driving Not arriving on our way back home We’re on our way back home We’re on our way home We’re going home Two of us sending postcards writing letters on my wall You and me burningContinue reading “On “Two of Us””
On Political Opinions
Things I’ve said in the past two days: How can a politician put together the words “debate on torture”? There’s no debate. Torture is torture. End of sentence. You just don’t do it. Calling Condi Rice “incompetant” is being kind.
On Veteran’s Day
In Flanders, eighty-nine years ago today, the guns fell silent, and one of the great follies of our times came to an end — In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the gunsContinue reading “On Veteran’s Day”
On the Lennon Listen — Introduction
I love the Beatles. That’s… a little hard to hide. The solo careers? Those I run hot-and-cold on. George Harrison’s solo work — especially All Things Must Pass, Cloud 9, Brainwashed, and his work with the Wilburys — is phenomenal. Except for the mid-70s and early-80s — Dark Horse and 33 1/3 aren’t especially memorable.Continue reading “On the Lennon Listen — Introduction”
On Mangling Shakespeare
From Lawrence Schoen, a Shakespeare thing: Give thy Allyn no tongue. Which work of Shakespeare was the original quote from? Get your own quotes: What an interesting mangled quote. 😆