c(h)ristine (hypothetically) has a “mad shitter” at her workplace, apparently. And yes, it is sad that there is a category of weird people who defecate in workplaces. Well, I can’t say I’ve ever had a comparable experience to that one, but once, way back around the turn of the century (haha, I can say that now!), I was working at a now-defunct company that made computer-usage tutorials for the blind. I lived pretty far from work; it ended up being something like 20 minutes by bus, then 45 minutes by subway, or else 20 minutes by train and then 25 …
Month: September 2006
Shatner & Nimoy, 40 Years Later
Since this clip won’t load on my Ubuntu laptop, I’m saving it for when my office PC is back online, and that means I’m posting it here. Apparently funny interview of the two old space-codgers, passed on by a Clarion classmate, I think it was.
Writing Group in Seoul?
I couldn’t find one. And I looked, believe me. I’ve produced so much fiction that I’m leery to share it all with the one crit group I have, my Clarion West classmates. So I was thinking I could get a secondary group, a local writing group I could join maybe. Turns out, at least from googling, no such thing exists. If anyone’s interested, and cool with genre fiction, I’m interested, and cool with non-genre (whatever that means). Drop me a line. I was thinking meetings every 2-3 weeks, maybe.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
Adam blogs it like it is: So let’s see… five years after 9/11 and the US is despised the world over, the mightiest army in the world is being nickel-and-dimed to death in a pointless quagmire, Al Qaeda has more members than ever (and several successful franchises as well!), Iran is the dominant power in the Persian Gulf, the guy that ordered the 9/11 attacks is being protected by a key “ally”, our economy is tanking, gas is over $270 a gallon and our government has moved into the business of torture at the retail and wholesale levels. Wow! Can …
jesus camp trailer
Over on YouTube, you can see the trailer for the documentary Jesus Camp Now do you see why I find it ironic when Americans criticise the Islamic world as being basically religious-fundamentalist?