Archive for February, 2007

24: season 6, hour 11

Monday, February 26th, 2007

It’s Monday, thus it’s time for 24. Read no further, ’cause I’m gonna start with a summary. Since this is about the portion of the season where I start forgetting dangling plot ends. (Unfortunately, so do Surnow and Grazer. Oh well.)
Also, as a note: The Black Donnellys is hilarious. It’s like crossing […]

A Friday to remember.

Saturday, February 24th, 2007

So I woke up on Friday morning and did the usual things–got up, showered, and dressed, and read my email. The top article in my RSS inbox was from Salon, probably my favorite web pub. It was a piece on Steve Jobs, Apple, and DRM, and of particular interest because of both subject […]

Mmm, sugared liver.

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

There are just some sentences you don’t see very often. It amuses me to collect them. From Cory Doctorow’s Overclocked, specifically After the siege, which is a rather weird little tale, even from him:

“She fisted more sugared liver into her gob and ran.”

This totally feels like something we would have written in our gaming […]

Neil Gaiman is one of the good ones.

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

When you are oddly awake, you find things on the internet which are whimsical and amuse you for many minutes more than they usually would. You also find other people on the internet, who say things like this in regard to that thing that was whimsical, like:

“Which is a good explanation, but somehow […]

24: season 6, hour 10

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

We will continue our regularly-scheduled 24 synopsis, with only a small margin of error for illness. In other words, anything wonky that shows up this week? Can be blamed on Nyquil instead of just my usual charm.

Uh-oh. Bashir’s gonna be the fall guy for another Palmer assassination. Oh dear. I don’t […]

Spoon bread.

Monday, February 19th, 2007

After 2 days subsisting on ginger ale and saltines, I made a foray into the kitchen today (and not just to clean the glasses off the counter). It’s cold outside, and my whole body wants something warm and comforting. But it needs to be simple, since I’m not sure I’ll be awake long […]

Lengthy post about books.

Monday, February 19th, 2007

Under the thrall of a Nyquil-induced haze, I have spent much of the morning (and likely, the remainder of the day) reading. This is a favorite thing to do, under the influence or not, though my choices tend toward the comforting and familiar when I am sick and out of it.
Right now it’s that time […]

Two films that couldn’t be more different.

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

It looks to be a movie weekend. I feel like crap, so I hurried through the necessary errands this morning and came home with some of that throat-numbing spray and some extra Sprite. On today’s (and last night’s) docket: the recent release Children of Men and, straight from Netflix, Eternal sunshine of […]

Sorrow on a Friday night.

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

Sadness is snapping a string just after midnight when you’ve only been home an hour, have no spares in the house (and in fact don’t yet know how to string a guitar), and really really want to play. In fact, I was good all day long. I worked from home without picking up the instrument […]

QotD

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

From a neat blog, Shakespeare’s Sister, an intriguing question of the day:

What 5 television characters (not the actors, but the characters) would you want to have over for a dinner? Bonus: What would you serve?

Man, that’s tough. ‘Cause they have to all get… along… somehow. I mean, dinner with Mulder together with the […]