As usual, my grandoise plans to dazzle my five or six readers with a serial short story have fizzled entirely beneath the sunlike blaze of my lassitude.
The 'good' news is that it seems my depressive ennui over the start of the war has passed. Given time and acclimation, I and many others have once [...]
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It seems impossible that every morning I wake up and come to work I come to be even more disgusted by the good old USofA. I flip on the computer, check e-mail, then open the web and check out the news of the day, and proceed to, in the words of the genius relocated Bostonian [...]
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Looks like Peter Jackson we?ll have to wait for next year to meet the feebles (read: Hollywood brain trust) as The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers failed to win anything other than the pre-req technical awards (sound design, visual effects, midget rangling) at this year?s 75th Academy Awards. Shut out of the directing [...]
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Jason's comment about "ignoring the elephant in the room" is a good one. Rather than make some kind of peasley effort to say more about the war, when there is much too much to be said altogether, I will come up with something else to talk about. But bear in mind that the elephant seems [...]
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"What the hell was that? Where'd that come from?"
"I don't know. It's been ages, hasn't it?"
"And it doesn't make any sense. Why now? When things are, ostensibly, at their worst?"
"Perhaps that's the point. Perspective, and whatnot."
"Maybe."
"I can't help but feel it's a positive development."
"Well, yes. I'm thinking it has to do with the letters."
"That too, [...]
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