Re-watching Jennifer’s Body

If any of you know how to get ahold of Diablo Cody or Karyn Kusama, let me know. I would deeply like to send them a fan letter. I re-watched this movie last night. As you may recall, I loved it when I saw it in the theater. Re-watching it only solidified my love for [...]

Life’s disappointments

This morning has been full of minor setbacks. The pipes draining the basement were leaking, precipitating a small flood in the playroom. Some of the kids’s Christmas toys did not function. The gym we took the kids to was closed. It’s snowing. But the flooding was minor, and Cavorter quickly tightened the pipes, and all [...]

“Blame It On the Pop”

DJ Earworm has brought to us another gorgeous damn mashup, the Best of Pop 2009: Blame It On the Pop.” Blame It On the Pop There you go. Here’s the list of songs included: The Black Eyed Peas – BOOM BOOM POW Lady Gaga – POKER FACE Lady Gaga Featuring Colby O’Donis – JUST DANCE [...]

Indy Comic Book Week

As many of you may already know, Diamond Comic Distributors is not shipping any comics this week. This means that stores will have no new comics from the major publishers. Rather than view this as a problem, however, select comics retailers across the country are holding Indy Comic Book Week. Locally, The Source Comics and [...]

The Haunting of Molly Hartley

I know this is not unique to me, but sometimes I really have no idea what movie other people just saw. I watched The Haunting of Molly Hartley yesterday, and thought it was a damn fine film of its sort. I go and look it up on Rotten Tomatoes this afternoon, and see that it [...]

The morning of the Eve

We open our presents on Christmas Eve. But, to the incredibly dismay of my son, we do not open them right the hell away on Christmas Eve. The prospect that he has to wait even longer for, as far as he can tell, no reason other than arbitrary caprice on my part, is excruciating for [...]

My 2009 in music

This is a personal list, a retrospective, not an attempt at a best-of. I can’t say that this was particularly a year of new music for me. Not in the sense that the music was produced or released in this year. (Well, some of it was.) But this is the music that moved me, that [...]

Winter Solstice, Camelot Station

My favorite winter poem is by John M. Ford. Winter Solstice, Camelot Station is available in the collected The Heat of Light, published by Tor. I also expect you can find copies of it floating around online. Camelot is served By a sixteen-track stub terminal done in High Gothick Style, The tracks covered by a [...]

My Three Stories

My friend Caroline posted this today: Well, if all the stories in the world were Say Anything. . ., X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga, or King Lear, I wouldn’t complain too much. That was a spur of the moment set of associations, but as I tried to improve on the idea — to come up [...]

Things of a Thursday

1. Is there any way to explain to a child that asserting one is good at something is not the same as being good at it? Probably not, since I happen to know adults who still labor under this misapprehension. 2. I should make a post about the Palm Pixi and why it’s working out [...]