Lynn on the Suckiness of High School Drama

Brain Farts’ blogger Lynn’s reminiscences about high school drama got me thinking about my own experiences in that department.
While most of my (now-obviously-sketchy) performances at variety nights with bands and in plays and such were of my own choice, mostly — including the jazz-fusion version of Metallica’s Enter Sandman, and a narrating job for [...]

Get a Gander At Me

I don’t know if I ever posted the last self-portrait I made using the Southpark character creator tool (which can be found here), but anyway, this pic looks like a good approximation of me during my recent tour of duty at my Uni’s biannual Elementary English Camp.

And yes, do I squint like that… because [...]

Mickey Mouse Suicidal

Shrinkette linked to this page with old comic strips where Mickey, distraught over his belief that he’s lost Minnie for good, starts thinking he might be better off dead. Just weird.

Rome not quite right, he says

In this fascinating Times Online piece, one historian says that HBO’s Rome, while good entertainment, has vastly simplified the sexuality of ancient Rome. It’s a fascinating read, especially where he claims that, in fact, HBO’s The Sopranos is much closer to ancient Rome.

Wasn’t it Erasmus…?

Wasn’t it Erasmus who said that whenever he got a little money, first he bought books, and then, were there a little left over, food and clothes? Yes, it seems it was, well, sort of. It’s a mangled quote always attributed to him, at least, and we like it that way, don’t we?
Well, I [...]

Paperwork&bureau

crazcies, oh, they give my head to an ache,
&last minutes specially give to it no break.
this paper, that scrap:all gathered not yet
can lateron (thus now) more trouble beget
oh trouble oh nonsense if people would just
let things onward go (a bit) with less this fuss
than guv’ments’ suitmen whose offices closed
would prob’ly have nothing to do, so [...]

Fifty Fantasy & Science Fiction Works That Socialists Should Read (according to China Miéville)

Instead of the Lunar New Year Readathon I did last year, I’m considering trying to work my way through China Miéville’s list of Fifty Fantasy & Science Fiction Works That Socialists Should Read over at Fantastic Metropolis. Some of those books will be difficult-to-get, but I just got a credit card approved, so it might [...]

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