Month: September 2012
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Jesus’ Son
I’m running out of things to read in the house, or at least I have the perception of running out of things to read. I probably have at least a hundred or two books that I haven’t read, so maybe I should say “things I want to read” or “things I should read”. I feel…
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Apple TV
So last night, as an early anniversary present, Sarah got me the new Apple TV. Not the rumored buy-a-whole-TV-from-Apple Apple TV, but the third-generation set-top box from Apple. My first impression is that this is an interesting little piece of machinery, and will largely replace my first-gen Roku, plus do a whole lot more. The…
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Wonder Bread Gorging and the Ceiling Toaster Distraction
I want to mount a toaster on the ceiling. It’s a really tall ceiling, seventeen feet or some shit like that, and there’s a thin pipe with a metal box on one end, one of those electrical boxes with four plugs on it, just staring down at me when I sit on the couch. There’s…
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Ranch K-hole
Yesterday was a shit day for writing, not only because I still don’t have a project and I’m entering month three of the one month I decided to take to shore up an outline for the next book, but because my afternoon schedule was truncated by an chiropractor’s appointment, and after a couple of days…
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Half the reason I don’t blog every day is I can’t think of titles
I miss the days when I didn’t use wordpress, because back then, my entries didn’t have titles. I found it much easier to start brain-dumping babble onto a page when there wasn’t a blank title forcing me to somehow compose my thoughts into a single linear article or whatever. So I just got back from…