Posted in Uncategorized on January 31, 2006 | 8 Comments »
If you’re reading my blog and have any interest in comics, you’re probably reading Captain Confederacy. But if it’s not to your taste, you might still be interested in How to Make a Free Cartoon/Comics/Sequential Art/Graphic Story Blog, where I explain the tweaks for the site that I figured out this weekend.
Also, I want to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 29, 2006 | 6 Comments »
It’s a beautiful day.
As a kid, I thought that was something people said to be saying something. Now I know it’s an acknowledgment of a fine moment in time. I try to be grateful for every moment in time. It’s hardest when I want to keep something; then my gratitude is tempered by knowing that [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 28, 2006 | 4 Comments »
If you say you’re telling the truth and you’re not, you’re lying.
Frankly, the Frey fray bores me. He’s a Hollywood guy with Hollywood values who has yet to figure out that life isn’t all about him.
But this interests me: Navahoax: Did a struggling white writer of gay erotica become one of multicultural literature’s most celebrated [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 26, 2006 | 2 Comments »
I wrote Mom, asking, “you’re sure he’s in the Philippines? In terms of keeping up with Dad, that’s more information than we often get.” And I pointed out that we shouldn’t worry too much, ’cause, as often, a local woman had taken him under her wing. (Local men do, too. But it’s usually local women.)
Mom [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 26, 2006 | 6 Comments »
To the best of our knowledge, Dad is the world’s oldest solo circumnavigator. You won’t find that it in any book of world records, because it’s not properly documented. Dad didn’t set out to sail around the world twice in his seventies. He just went to Australia. Then Africa. Than on to the Americas. Then [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 26, 2006 | No Comments »
Kim Antieau has posted some great photos of this area and the Mexican border on her blog. Go look.
She’s also a fine writer; you’ll like the words, too.
Posted in Uncategorized on January 25, 2006 | 5 Comments »
I’ve been reading about Machinima for a while now. A great intro to it (and why it excites me) is here.
If I had a Windows machine, I would be making War for the Oaks, the machinma. (Someday, it will be a movie!)
Posted in seeker, tagged autobiography, colonoscopy on January 24, 2006 | 3 Comments »
I don’t want to put anyone on the spot by mentioning that she just came through her colonoscopy with the prize-winning flag of “10 years until the next one.” But I did want to say that I now know three extremely useful things for others who are facing a colonoscopy.
1. Check the flavor of the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 24, 2006 | 59 Comments »
Some people think you should start reading or watching all series at the beginning and stop at the end. This topic isn’t for them.
(But I will note that even that idea is tricky: Is the beginning the first story that appeared before the public, or is it the story set earliest in the series’ chonology?)
Sometime [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged integrity, race, waldrop, wealth on January 23, 2006 | 7 Comments »
I don’t always agree with Ursula Le Guin, but I always respect her opinion. In TO THE PEOPLE WHO WROTE ME ABOUT THE SCI FI CHANNEL MINISERIES, she says nice things. She also says something very true about books being turned into movies:
It’s time that the standard Hollywood contract is changed.I’ve heard the usual advice [...]
