We promised Ben we’d go see Spiderman 3. Personally, I was pushing for the latest Shrek movie, especially after getting a tirade about violence and horribleness from another mom whose slightly younger kid wanted to leave Spiderman after about 15 minutes. Of course, they saw the IMAX version, and that’s probably a bit more intense. Granted, there is probably a bit too much marketing toward the kids for the level of of the movie, but hey, there’s a megaton of…
A moment to pause and thank…. Darrell at the Blog of the Grateful Bear for a very interesting set of interchanges on the death of Falwell (Jerry Falwell, Rest In Peace | Jerry Falwell, Rest In Peace: Part 2). Yours is the far better thing. Joseph Nechvatel (the lively and brilliant) picked up my post on some of his work and put it up on his website, as though I were an actual art critic. If I had known he…
Either way you interpret “WTF,” it was my first thought this morning. “Do you smell a wood fire?” “Is our house on fire?” “Where’s the fire?” “WTF??!?!?!” The whole backyard was full of smoke. I went outside, and couldn’t find the cause. I turned on the news. Weather report: Hazy, sunny, and smoky. Yeah, and? Only in Georgia would they simply describe the conditions without any explanation at all. On the way in to work (I’m on break right now,…
ENTP – “Inventor”.Enthusiastic interest in everything and always sensitive to possibilities. Non-conformist and innovative.3.2% of the total population. Free Jung Personality Test (similar to Myers-Briggs/MBTI)
I am too disheartened by recent events to be able to respond to the news in any kind of responsible way today. I’m taking a break. And I have been rewarded. I have just witnessed the Snow White/Sleeping Beauty effect. Keep reading. One of the nicer aspects about not having found a full-time job yet is that I have a couple of days off during the week. I was feeling rather down and, having completed most of my mundane chores,…