Archive for July, 2008
Context is King: Some Personal Observations
Sunday, July 27th, 2008“Lewis Nixon had some tough times after the war. He was divorced a couple of times. Then in 1956 he married a woman named Grace and everything came together for him. He spent the rest of his life with her, traveling the world. My friend Lew died in 1995.” — Maj. Richard Winters, Band of [...]
Stay Classy, FOXSports
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008Yes, that’s right FOXSports. Michelle Wie needs to learn her lesson. She should stop competing against men. Maybe you should get the belt ready in case she doesn’t learn her lesson this time. Danica Patrick and Billie Jean King are next in line, eh? I’d say more, but it really kind of speaks for itself, [...]
Unbalanced
Monday, July 21st, 2008I got my oil changed today, and that meant sitting in the dealership lounge thingy watching Fox News. I don’t do that near enough. First, I saw a bit where the host was quoting a criticism of Obama’s fact-finding trip to Iraq, from the McCain camp, saying that it was just a political ploy. Which [...]
Health Care
Sunday, July 20th, 2008A thought occurred to me recently. Now, before I say this, let me say that I tend to support a broadening of affordable health care coverage on the grounds of social justice. It’s just the right thing to do, setting aside libertarians’ campfire stories about the horrors of socialization. But it occurred to me that [...]
I’m … Batman!
Saturday, July 19th, 2008Tarri and I went to see The Dark Knight last night. Very good movie, and highly recommended. The somewhat funny thing is that I spent today reading reviews of the movie, and I found myself agreeing with parts of the few negative reviews that are out there, but I still think it’s a great film. [...]
Puppet Touchery
Thursday, July 17th, 2008Delightful author Cat Valente wrote, a week-and-a-half ago, a thoughtful post about touching the puppets and how it applies to writing. Basically, the idea is to stop keeping the strange at arm’s length, and comes from a DVD commentary for the Henson-produced sci-fi drama, Farscape. Actors were encouraged to touch the puppets because it made [...]
Paid To Recycle
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008Or: Aren’t We Just Giving Away All Those Delicious Raw Materials? Okay, maybe they’re not raw materials, but the question occurred to me when I saw this from the Guardian. Or, rather, it occurred to me to blog about it, since it had generally been occurring to me for a while. That is, when Penn [...]
I Forgot What I Was Going To Say
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008Driving up to Traverse City this morning, I thought of something really clever to post, regarding something I heard on NPR. Sadly, the clusterfuck that was my Traverse City stop blew it right out of my head. Instead, I’ll mention that we live in an age of wonders: I deposited a check to my bank [...]
Long Weekend
Monday, July 7th, 2008So, not surprisingly, I did not post anything over the weekend on account of being out in the middle of nowhere with a long walk between us and the nearest wi-fi hotspot. We also discovered that they seemed to turn something off around the time the campsite’s welcome center closed and couldn’t get on the [...]