So, how are we doing?
Thirty posts, and… nine? Yeah, nine that don’t completely suck.
Which is way more than the “once per fortnight” I was expecting, and way way WAY more than my previous semiyearly average. So, hey. Progress.
I expected more doodles. Maybe next month.

Shakes has something… interesting.
I really, really hope it’s just Newsweek having a laugh.

Stayed home sick today. Generic sinus/throat infection, nothing big, but enough to put me down for a day or two. So today I read this, and most of this.
One book to go, and I’m kind of dreading it. That sense of… I’m not sure if i can actually describe it, but […]

After Shithead got reelected, that kinda soured me on politics for a long time, and all the big liberal blogs getting way too big, and therefore too dickish, didn’t help. Also I started thinking about tribalism, and specifically about how people get all into sports and celebrities and all kinds of random social accretions […]

Nothing.
Non-Friday Random Ten:
Hole - Softer, Softest
REM - Ignoreland
MC Frontalot - Good Old Clyde
Pulp - Something Changed
Sugarcubes - Deus
Duran Duran - The Chauffeur
The Meatmen - How Soon is Now?
ZZ Top - Cheap Sunglasses
The Eagles - Those Shoes
Bette Midler - The Rose

Friday Random Flash!
(or maybe a vignette, I dunno.)

Gently Down the Stream
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Alex got sent to Hell today.
We all knew it was coming sooner or later. It’s not hard to see the signs, at least when you’re also a lifetime swimmer - start with Ultraviolence paths, move into the Sex lines after a couple years, […]

Oh, yeah - that.
I put some time into Warcraft before; it started when I didn’t even have my filler job, when I could totally put fourteen hours a day into leatherworking if I felt like it, and, well, I did (of course, I was on dial-up back then, so it sort of evens out).
Where gratification […]

argh argh work sucks i hate everyone
go pretty pictures now

I pretty much never watch political speeches / events (except for debates). There’s never any point to prescripted big events, it’s all just “Yay America” for 90 minutes, nothing of substance, nothing of interest, no details, the only reasons to watch are so you can critique the level and intent of media manipulation, or […]

I read a lot, but like 99% of those words are taken in via burning phosphors. Since my entrance to Le Interweb - 96 or thereabouts - I rarely buy non-comic fiction, and almost never new authors, until I borrow one from somebody and stick to it like glue. So for the past […]