We went looking for the great horned owl that lives at the marina. Every time I bring my camera, it’s conspicuously absent, but when I’m unprepared and have only a cell phone, then the stupid featherbucket hangs around all photogenically on the yardarms of sail boats. The above photo was taken a couple months ago, [...]
I went to see Hunger Games last night. Fabulous. Except this photo I took in the lobby with my phone: 20th Century Fox (and you too, Regal Cinemas), I know you set up the advertising campaign for your movie a long time ago, months or even years in advance. But due to recent events, I [...]
Recently, someone on my Twitter feed retweeted a screenshot of the Salvation Army website which emphasized one paragraph. The Salvation Army has an official stance on homosexuality, which is that I and all my fellow ten percenters are doomed to a painful eternity in Satan’s private theater, wearing feather boas fashioned of hot coal and [...]
The day I get cancer and I have to pay for the treatment out of pocket is the day I’ll stop behaving.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Drama in a nutshell: Subterranean Press published some homophobic Shakespeare fanfic by Orson Scott Card. The Internet is angry. One of my friends thinks we should boycott Subterranean. Another of my friends thinks we should all buy gay books. Some hilarious person on Twitter suggested the proper response was to rewrite Ender’s Game, Card’s most [...]
At about 9:30 p.m. my boss calls to let us know that there’s been a string of robberies in the past few days. The perpetrator was a Caucasian male in black clothes who told the clerks he had a bomb hidden under his clothes; alternately, he would show them a butcher knife. Now, I don’t [...]
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Imagine, if you will, that Amazon is a witch. They have used magic to make it so your cow’s milk is actually carbonated duran juice. Now, no one in the market will buy from you. Your livelihood is suffering, which stinks because this inexplicable buckle on your hat is getting rusty and you can’t afford [...]
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Now it’s time for something funny. On December 18, 2009, Seamus and I drove down to visit my Grandma Moonie in Everett. Some of my Spokane family had driven there as well. We hung out for a few hours (with Shai, who by then was forbidden from long, fun walks but was still allowed long, [...]
Sunday, November 29, 2009
I won NaNo at 50,006 words! A day early, which I don’t think I’ve ever done before. Audrey put a banana peel on my head as a victory hat, since we didn’t have a viking helmet lying around. (Or we did, she hid it because she just wanted to put garbage on my head.) Afterward, [...]
