Bruce Willis and that other guy in Colorado Springs. This last Wednesday, I took Ray down to the cheap theatre to see Valiant. I had been planning to get a cup of coffee from the Bear Rock Cafe and wander around for an hour or so before the movie — but BRC was closed: Movie …
Boink! What’s the point of wearing your favorite rocketship underpants if nobody ever asks to see ’em? I’m not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. Calvin : You can’t just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. Hobbes : What mood is that? Calvin …
The Grandiloquent Dictionary. Some vocabulary words are interesting. Some are amusing. Some would make good villain names on City Of Villains when it comes out. deiparous – Giving birth to a god or a goddess deisidaimonia – The fear of supernatural powers dentiloquent – Pertaining to someone who talks through their teeth deoppilate – To …
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana.By Umberto Eco. I’ve just started the novel. Like Silverlock (thanks, Randy), it’s one of those books that contain a kind of map to a bajillion others. Unlike Silverlock, there probably won’t be a happy ending. Some kind of tragedy will cap it off; it’s Umberto Eco. In the Eco-ian …
Jesus of the Pierogi. An article on how people turn random information into things that seem like something else — the process is called paredolia. Includes links to examples–the face of Jesus on a pierogi, among other things. Babies, at birth, will respond to faces. They’ll even respond to the picture of a smiley face …
Odd train of thought. I’m going to share a somewhat nutty train of thought. I was jotting down ideas for stories and letting my mind ramble before doing some editing, and I found myself thinking about Freddie Krueger. Now, I haven’t watched all the movies, and the ones I have watched I don’t recall fully. …