We got a brand new coffee machine at the office this year, a big hulking thing that brews single servings of coffee instead of whole pots. Here’s how it works: you pop a little container of coffee essence (which comes in lots of flavors, regular, dark magic, rainforest nut, brazed melancholy, Brazilian meringue, burnt essence [...]
Gene Wolfe has some very cool things to say about … well, pretty much everything. Here’s his take on the nature of courage, from The Claw of the Conciliator, the second volume of The Book of the New Sun: But I believe there is no other difference between those who are called courageous and those [...]
I’m reading a book called City of Bones, by Michael Connelly, or rather I was. I had to stop, because it was getting to be too painful. If this book is representative of Connelly’s work in general, the man just can’t write. Let me qualify that. He can put a sentence together, and he can [...]
Is Condoleezza Rice the next high-level administration official on the sacrifice queue? So far the fallout from the Niger uranium fib has claimed George Tenet and Steve Headly, and now recent articles in the Post and US News & World Report, along with some informed speculation over at Talking Points Memo, seem to suggest that [...]
Wilco says: All my lies are only wishesI know that I would die if I could come back new which is probably the saddest, most beautiful thing I’ve ever heard.
I’m spending a lot of time at work these days, an unhealthy amount of time. Deadlines loom, pressure mounts, problems ranging from irritating to intractable pop their furry little heads out of the myriad gopher holes that dot the landscape of my best-laid plans. I sit at my desk from morning til night. The cathode [...]
Check out this revue of really bad computer game box art, from Gamespot. Some stunningly horrid stuff here, including a nauseating romance-novel-worthy image of Fabio all Conan-ed up for some ancient Nintendo sword & sorcery flop, an attempted improvement on Tommy Lasorta’s visage gone horribly wrong, and a picture of an old hillbilly incongruously plucking [...]
Just saw this in the Village Voice personal ads: In my bedroom, you’ll find: “A bed, clean sheets, TV, DVD player, Trojan Magnum condoms, and books on philosophy and law.” Talk about appealing to the widest possible constituency. Clearly this guys gets his information on what women want from The Man Show.
Who am I? Where am I? What is my purpose? These basic, existential questions have been bugging us ever since we got smart enough to ask them, and there’s been no shortage of answers, all of them vague, unverifiable, and, ultimately, unsatisfying. Things are about to get a lot better, at least on the question [...]
There is a small country in the southwest corner of the North American continent, on the border between Mexico and California, called the Republic of Laplalaland, Lap for short. Laplalaland is invisible to the rest of the world, and has been so for many centuries, ever since the Great Scataclysm, an event that the Laplalanders [...]
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