Apr
16
My birthday was yesterday and Oh! I love birthdays now. I love holidays. I love celebration and joy.
Every celebration heals my soul, even now. After all this time, there’s a small part of me that is making up for all those missed celebrations of my JW childhood.
I am sorry that I have not been posting [...]
Dec
10
I have a new “zone-out” activity. I crank my iPod and play Pirates vs. Ninjas on Facebook. It’s a simple virtual dice game, on which you wager a specific amount of “gold” per play. You can attack individuals on the other side, and you defend against them too.
After accumulating over a thousand plays as a [...]
Nov
02
My friend Amanda innocently suggested that I join her in adding the visual bookshelf application to my Facebook page.
Little did she know that it’s just the sort of thing I would latch onto when I’m bummed out. I guess it’s better than some of the alternatives.
I’ve already listed well over a thousand books that I’ve [...]
Oct
20
Now here’s some political parody that I can appreciate. Check out the satire of the Right-Wing Facebook.
If it seems a little too truthful, that’s because it’s meant to get a few messages across to a sometimes under-informed American public. The Right-Wing Facebook parody site is a project by People For the American Way and [...]
Oct
08
I’ve been reading vampire books since I was a kid. I have a pretty extensive collection of all kinds of vampire novels and short stories. For a while I was a member of the Lord Ruthven Society (Raymond McNally told me that “Vee neeeed new bloooood” - how could I resist? May he rest in [...]