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March 5, 2015
I am grateful, now fuck off.
Originally posted on Mama Said:
It was some time between midnight and 3am. I was dead asleep. I���d fed the littliest at midnight so it was after that, and it was before he woke up for a feed at 3am. This hardly matters, because that time of night is Hell unless you���re pashing, happy drunk, smoking in a bar, dancing, or on drugs ��� y���know, generally having a fulfilling life that doesn���t involve milk dripping out of your breasts or playing the fart or shit game.
So, I���m asleep and I fe...
March 2, 2015
Star Wars: The Legand Continues In Little China PART FIVE: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY
Years ago, when I first started drinking gin and keeping this blog, two things that aren���t related except insofar as they pertain to this particular post, I made a list of topics that I might write about, and taped the post-it to the dining room wall. I crossed off some of them long ago, and others I started but never got round to. The list is as follows:
COMPLETED:
1. The story of Dalek Tom Tom (last week)
2. Book Meme (done and done!)
3. Christmas in Pics (yawn)
UNFINISHED:
1. Viola’s camera (t...
February 23, 2015
People Who Talk About Social Media the Most
Lol times 1000. Accurate!
Originally posted on Peas and Cougars:
I don���t know if this chart exists yet, but I just realized it and it needs to exist.
The Story of Dalek Tom-Tom
So back in 2011, I and Vstroyer drove to Kansas from our home in Pittsburgh for Thanksgiving, a trip that we now make every year BECAUSE IT IS ACTUALLY CHEAPER TO DRIVE TWO DAYS ACROSS THE COUNTRY THAN TAKING A PLANE. I guess I could have made it in one long ass day, but I am one of those people who stops at every dumbass place (OZARKLAND? HOME MADE FUDGE! BIGGEST BALL OF TWINE? FAMILY DONKEY SHOW?!), so I decided to take it easy on me and Vstroyer and take two days.
It was a howl. I had direc...
February 17, 2015
THE TRAGIC AND HEROIC PROGRESSION OF KEVIN COSTNER’S ILLNESS AND RECOVERY.
Years ago, I don’t remember who started this idea that actors could get actor’s diseases. This is for purely humorous purposes, so don’t try to see rationality in this. It started with either Mel Gibson or Tom Cruise, but they were definitely diagnosed. Tom Cruise’s Tom Cruise Disease is a pretty simple progression that begins to gestate around “Born on the Fourth of July”, and I think Mel Gibson Disease is fully actualized in Braveheart. Tom Hanks might have Tom Hanks disease, but if he does...
THE TRAGIC AND HEROIC PROGRESSION OF KEVIN COSTNER���S ILLNESS AND RECOVERY.
Years ago, I don’t remember who started this idea that actors could get actor’s diseases. This is for purely humorous purposes, so don’t try to see rationality in this. It started with either Mel Gibson or Tom Cruise, but they were definitely diagnosed. Tom Cruise’s Tom Cruise Disease is a pretty simple progression that begins to gestate around “Born on the Fourth of July”, and I think Mel Gibson Disease is fully actualized in Braveheart. Tom Hanks might have Tom Hanks disease, but if he does...
February 11, 2015
In Which I Read Other People’s Work.
Short blog post this week, because I am not feeling wizard. Also, I am Le Tired.
A few years (years?) ago, and old school buddy of mine reached out to me from the nefarious depths of the internet and asked me if I���d like to do some audio narration for Escapepod, the Scifi podcast. (You can find their main page here.)
(Strangely enough, years before that I had subbed to their sister podcast, the horror genre Pseudopod, and been rejected. But that is neither here nor there. I say it because you...
February 2, 2015
January Book Round-up
Keeping a running review list of all the books that I am reading this year, I present: January, which was very effing slow, because I am reading about 8 at once, and also because omg GRRM is not capable of making a book whose audio is less than 5000 years long.
A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5), George R.R. Martin
Everyone told me to read these books, and I resisted, because I don���t like high fantasy. With the exception of Lord of the Rings, much of which I skip through, I am...
January 20, 2015
So yeah, I have sh**ty habits.
It is obvious that we have reached the point of no shame.
I am an instant gratification person. I have tried not to be over the years, but like my experiences with exercise and running, that’s like trying to swim upstream whilst riding a seahorse���fun to think about, impossible to do.
I am afraid that ever since I saw Aquaman ride a seahorse, I have been embittered by the fact that there ain’t no seahorse out there even remotely big enough to carry me. Also, from what I understand, their steer...
January 8, 2015
A Sluggard’s Tale of Exercise
So last night I had the fastest run of my life, a 5K in 29:55, which breaks down to 9.5 minutes per mile.
Years ago���possibly 2011, my doctor told me that I had to find a way to get exercise. He’s a conservative guy, thinks that you can manage diet and exercise without gyms and Whole Foods, and I like that about him, but my brain is sneakier than he is. “Just walk outside for 30 minutes” goes in my ear canal and is quickly translated into “Plan to walk outside for thirty minutes, decide that...
