everybody hates a tourist

Busy morning; no time.
I re-watched the Sci-Fi channel’s Dune miniseries this past week, having forgotten how good it all is. The whole miniseries has a very theatrical feel to it: lighting changes in mid-scene, lush backdrops instead of real environments, very standard camera shots. Baron Harkonnen even ends every scene he’s in with [...]

a couple of the sounds that I really like are the sounds of a switchblade and a motorbike

I had a bad experience with crepes in middle school. A kid in my sixth-period French class attempted to make crepes for a class project. Being thirteen, however, the best he could manage were pancakes stuffed with Cool Whip. Imagine sinking your teeth into a cold, undercooked pancake wrapped around a glob [...]

I need a miracle, I need a miracle

Sleep evaded me this weekend.
I made a long delayed return to 90s Night (warning: MySpace) at Common Ground on Friday. New friends and old showed up - Skim, Rick, MPerrotti, Jen, Cheshirepk8, Paperface, Ryan, Kate, and of course our vigilant DJ (yes, I know I’m forgetting some people - comment if I missed your [...]

back of my neck gettin’ dirty and gritty

I take for granted that I will never have everything I need out of the apartment - or even packed - by the day of the move. Years of experience taught me this. So I had relatively little stress on Saturday morning when I realized that I had yet to pack:
An entire bookshelf’s [...]