Geek Shakes Tiny Fist on Weblog. Dozens Bored. Film at Eleven.
(Originally published on my old LiveJournal.) So Warren Ellis (tangent: new Planetary out! it’s a good ‘un!) enlisted a bunch of his friends to offer predictions, sermons, and manifestos for the new...
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Bowling For Geisha
(Originally published on my old LiveJournal.) Goddamn, you half-Japanese girls / you do it to me every time. —Weezer, “El Scorcho”* Last week was Lisa’s birthday. We went out with a bunch of friends to...
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Hit By A Fish
(Originally published on my old LiveJournal.) In French, as you may know, April Fool’s Day is called Poisson d’Avril, which literally means “April Fish.” My Dad sometimes tells a story about when I was...
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Torah! Torah! Torah!
(Originally published on my old LiveJournal.) Today is the first day of Passover, which seems like a good opportunity to say something about Douglas Rushkoff‘s book Nothing Sacred: The Truth About...
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France part Un: Le Vrai Thing
(Originally published on my old LiveJournal.) I’m not from here But people tell me It’s not like it used to be They say I should’ve been here Back about ten years Before it got ruined by folks like me...
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France part Deux: Damn, it feels good to be a Buddha.
(Originally published on my old LiveJournal.) Besides eating and drinking, what do you do in Paris? Well, museums. Mostly art museums, cause that’s L’s thing. I wouldn’t go to many art museums without...
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France part Trois: Royale With Cheese
(Originally published on my old LiveJournal.) We got back nearly two weeks ago, so the statute of limitations must surely have expired on these France posts. They’re not very popular, either: not only...
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France part Dinkum: Professor, what's another name for pirate treasure?
(Originally published on my old LiveJournal.) “Professor, what’s another name for pirate treasure?” “Well, I think it’s booty… booty… booty… That’s what it is!” My Ontario high school French held up...
View ArticleFighting the Urge to Channel Burton Cummings
(Originally published on my old LiveJournal.) I’m sorry, Mike, but everybody gets at least one dejected post-election post. I am not surprised by the outcome. This is pretty much exactly what I’ve been...
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Five For The Gipper
Tags: Koschei the Deathless; Dudley Manlove; the Gipper; eat your heart out, Edmund Morris. We talked about the Reagan years in one of my classes this week. That’s all the excuse I need, really, to...
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