…work is kicking my ass. Yes. I expect that if I make it through this coming week, I may survive the rest of the year. Read more →
Author: Mr. McLaren
Mixing It Up 4: “Love Songs”
Those scare quotes are important. Most straight up, earnest love songs bore me–unless they feature a lot of use of the word “baby” in which case they positively repell me. These songs are all songs about love, of one kind or another, but they are not what you would call “love songs”. (If you’re wondering why that image for this… Read more →
Mixing It Up 3: Late Night And Mellow
So this is the one for making the exact middle of the night slip by… Back in the days when I used to do a lot of team road-tripping, we determined that 3:41 (the whole minute) is the exact middle of the night. If you make it past 3:41, you can go all night. They try harder and harder to… Read more →
U.S.A. Number One!
I think that’s probably just Ted A’Zary screwing up the curve for you guys. (Still, that’s a crazy gap. No wonder you guys can’t tell Fox News from reality any more.) Read more →
Mixing It Up 2: Late Night Giddy
So, for the second disc, the idea was to gather together some upbeat and amusing songs; songs to keep you feeling a bit silly during long night drives. Maybe songs to keep your spirits up when cold rain is falling on you in the dark. As with all these mixes, these are only a subset of the songs I have… Read more →
Mixing It Up 1: Immortal Tunes
“I believe that when you’re making a mix tape or CD, you’re making history. You ransack the vaults, you haul off all the junk you can carry, and you rewire all your ill-gotten loot into something new. You go through an artist’s entire career, zero in on that one moment that makes you want to jump and dance and smoke… Read more →
Mixing It Up 0: The Introduction
Since I’ve been insanely busy with work the last couple of weeks, and I don’t see it clearing up in the immediate future, I’m going to resort to a little easy posting. Let me explain… Two of the girls (do I have to call them women now?) who work at my excellent local comic shop are members of an all-girl… Read more →
I want matches in case I have to suddenly burn
Do you remember way back when I was lamenting my lack of knowledge of what Nicole Blackman was up to? And then she replied to the post, resulting my great blog-joy? Well, at the time she replied she pointed us to her story, “Dumped”, in Brooklyn Noir, and mentioned the current performances of the Courtesan Tales. While I didn’t manage… Read more →
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Roman Catholic Church Traveling Backwards In Time
So, did you see the things emanating from the new Pope this week? Wednesday he officially declared that there is no such thing as a Protestant “church”, and that at best Protestants can be “ecclesial communities”. Apparently this is based on his analysis that “because of the absence of the sacramental priesthood”, Protestant organizations had not “preserved the genuine and… Read more →
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, Orqwith, and the Codex Seraphinianus
(This post was, in large part, made elsewhere first, but I figure that since I went to the effort to dig up the links, etc, that I might as well put it up here also. If you’ve already seen this, feel free to move along.) That’s the cover to the 1983 English edition of Jorge Luis Borges‘ short story Tlön,… Read more →
They’ll probably charge him with terrorism
Finally, finally, a public servant is ready to stand up and say what everyone not overdosing on the koolaid knows: Bush justice is a national disgrace As a longtime attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice, I can honestly say that I have never been as ashamed of the department and government that I serve as I am at this… Read more →
Q.O.T.D.
“I pretty much started believing they’ll try anything they can get away with once it was confirmed that they really have instituted a series of secret prisons around the world and that they reserve the right to kidnap anyone on the planet, hold them forever without trial, and torture them to death.” Read more →
A really fun way to waste some time.
Have you seen the Skeptic’s Dictionary site? It bills itself as “A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions”, but I think it should really be labeled with a warning about the potential for losing quite a bit of time browsing around the amusing entries. The entry on true-believer syndrome may shed some light on those people who… Read more →
An Interesting Meme
I mostly avoid these, but I seem to have a weakness for the questions Jonathan Carroll asks, as with at least one lengthy previous post, and these ones that got to me today. 1. Describe three meals from your past (preferably breakfast, lunch and dinner) that you would like to have again and why. For me this has to be… Read more →
