Monday May 29th 2006, 11:10 am
That was what my old history teacher, Coach Thornburgh, used to say on parent-teacher night. I now think that every time I look at MySpace.
“If the Holy Father ever met your kids, he’d rethink his opposition to abortion…”
Making Book
Thursday May 25th 2006, 10:05 am
So, George W. Bush’s term is up at noon on January 20, 2008. We all know that it’s going to be a flurry of pardons, what with all of the criminal misconduct and all. When do you think Ken Lay’s pardon will be signed and announced? Leave your dates and times of the announcement in the comments. Me, I’m going with January 20, 2008 at 11.45 am.
Run, Al, run!
Wednesday May 24th 2006, 9:47 pm
We just came back from seeing An Inconvenient Truth.
Never in my life have I wanted to a) give a wedgie to an executive from GM and b) get someone elected to the Presidency.
Just run, Al. For the love of God, run.
I don’t have an agent yet…
Wednesday May 24th 2006, 4:41 pm
…but when that glorious day comes, Barbara Bauer is off the list.
Goose Jam
Wednesday May 24th 2006, 10:26 am
Two geese (an adult and an adolescent, I think; it certainly looked as disheveled and gawky as I did when I was twelve) waddled out into traffic at Valencia and Magic Mountain this morning. Screwed things up for a bit.
How did nature know I was looking for an excuse to use the phrase “goose jam” in public?
How To Be a Contrarian?
Tuesday May 16th 2006, 4:03 pm
On the one hand, I don’t want to see The Da Vinci Code because I think it’s going to suck; it’s a SciFi Network B-movie with a gravitas-lift (Tom Hanks instead of, say, Lance Henriksen) and a baddie transplant (Opus Dei instead of…Mansquito!). Dan Brown has made enough money, and I don’t want Sony rewarding him by commissioning Da Vinci Code 2: Opus Dei Can You See?.
On the other hand, anything that pisses off Bill Donohue can’t be all that bad.
So, what to do? Simple. Pirate the movie, slap a couple of flatscreens on a truck, then park that sucker across the street from a Catholic League protest. That way, everyone wins.
Important Stuff to Read
Tuesday May 16th 2006, 11:45 am
We Fictionados have homework for the first time: list your favorite stories, genre and not. In compiling this list, I’ve realized how poorly read I am. So:
Short Story or Novella
“My Name is Aram” and “The Journey to Hanford” by William Saroyan
“The Stars My Destination” by Alfred Bester
“Magic for Beginners” by Kelly Link
Novel
Love and Garbage by Ivan Klima
Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis and Derick Robertson (yes, I count the entire series as one big-ass novel. Why the hell not?)
Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
Church and State by Dave Sim and Gerhard
Nonfiction
i: six nonlectures by ee cummings
On Writing by Stephen King