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I have this talent, apparently, for attracting small weirdness. Oh, it’s little things. I am the person who will be standing on the sidewalk when a man rides by on a bicycle, and points a banana at me and says “Stick ‘em up!” (I did, for the record. He said “That’s right!” and rode . . . → Read More: Have you heard the message? Lately, I have been finding myself with the urge to…revisit. I am sure there is a more elegant way of saying this. Probably in French, which has also given us such fantastic idioms as “l’esprit de escalier” – which means literally “the spirit of the staircase, I believe. What does it mean? “That thing . . . → Read More: The Oz Project This delighted me: There really should always have been an entry for them. Spotted at BoingBoing. This evening it will be movie/tv night, as it is most Mondays. Our regular crew has just finished watching the BBC miniseries Jekyll (my assessment in brief: many lovely moments, and is good watching up till the last episode, when a number of things come apart. Oh, and don’t watch the last five minutes . . . → Read More: I ponder the Western Love him or hate him, most people have strong responses to H.P. Lovecraft. “Who?” I hear some of you asking. Well, there is always his entry on That Wiki if you are so inclined. But here is the short version: H.P. Lovecraft was a writer who published mainly short fiction in magazines like Weird . . . → Read More: Lovecraftian Listening Sometimes, one can learn the most interesting things when something doesn’t quite work. Last weekend, during a D&D session, I was reminded of this. First, a little background: Approximately a million years ago, I was an undergrad taking theatre courses. I didn’t know whether I wanted to be an actor or a techie, but . . . → Read More: Close, but not quite There is…this website. When it is linked to in message board threads, cries of “NOOOO!” can be read for posts and posts thereafter. People speak of it in hushed tones and warn people away from clicking links to it. I once sent a link to a single page on this site in an email, . . . → Read More: The most dangerous website on the internet The short answer is: Away. The longer answer is that I have been doing a number of things pertaining to a) finishing my graduate school and b) hunting for a job. (Still working on the latter, though I have also been volunteering, freelancing, and otherwise doing my best to keep busy while I am . . . → Read More: Where have you been? …What? That is what we’re doing here, isn’t it? Resurrecting an old blog? I expect things will be a mess here for the next while as I figure out how things ought to look and work. Stay tuned, cats and kittens. Spiffy short film of the backstory of the Tin Woodman from L. Frank Baum’s Oz books. A grim little saga many people have never heard.
Heartless: The Story of the Tin Man from Brandon McCormick on Vimeo. Found . . . → Read More: Heartless |
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