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Night Watch. I got Lee the Russian horror film Night Watch yesterday. He’s watching it as I type. He just said, “If you were going to write a Russian horror movie, this would be it.” Which, from other comments he’s made, is a compliment. I’ll have to watch it later…

Write what you know; know thyself. I’ve been thinking about the old adage “write what you know,” which, for the purposes of today’s mental tangent, shall mean “write what you love.” Because really, why would you expect anyone to love something you wrote if you don’t? If you’re writing something according to someone else’s opinion

Baxter Black, Cowboy Poet. I recommend Baxter Black’s recent commentary on NPR, “Why Not a Court of Average People?“ “The only big word [in the Constitution] is ‘enumeration.’”–Baxter Black.

Alas! US loses to Ghana in the World Quidditch Soccer Finals. I am easily amused.

Suspicious Activity. I brought a book to work with me the other day, called Ancient Tales in Modern Japan, selected and translated by Fanny Hagin Mayer. Sure enough, as I sat down to read it in the cafeteria during lunch, one of the security guys stopped by to ask me what I was reading and

Blah. Our house is full of sniffly people. Good thing the selfish urge to whine is counterbalanced by the urge to take care of people, or this might be a pretty grim household right now. “Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a

Untitled Haiku. After that last postI should try writing somethingDeep. Yeah, whatever.

O Happy Stuff! The life of a fledgling freelance writer is often, surprisingly, dull and tedious. I try to stay away from that aspect of things, but sometimes it can’t be helped. Oh, you’re doing something you love, but it can lack that spark that purely creative writing possesses. Then come the days when you

Happy Father’s Day! In a nice bit of synchronicity, Paul McCartney turns sixty-four today, on Father’s Day. One story is that he wrote “When I’m Sixty-Four” for his own father. Lee will be sixty-four in…2030. Quotes: Two little girls, on their way home from Sunday school, were solemnly discussing the lesson. “Do you believe there

Meter Runs Backward. Short Popular Science article on a guy who puts power into the grid. I so want to do this… Update: And this is cool, too. A related article about using cellulosic ethanol, a type of ethanol produced when the cellulose in plants (wood chips, corn cobs) is processed by termites into sugars