Have you ever read the screenplay for a movie you particularly liked? Not quite as satisfying an experience as Dolby surround sound, a darkened theater and a bucket full of jujubes, even though the essentially the same information gets transferred from the screenplay to your brain (minus some visual or audio bells and whistles. ). [...]
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<– Chapter 5 / Chapter 7 –> Given the change in his operating status, Ray knows it’s time to contact his superiors and file one of the dreaded progress reports upon which bureaucracies thrive. Doing this always constitutes a big, throbbing pain in his ass. As a Marine, he once thought he’d learned everything he [...]
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Tree man. You know what? Sometimes there just isn’t anything to say. This post brought to you courtesy of “Superman” by Five for Fighting.
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Day 1: I bought some arsenic. For the mice. Day 3: My wife was screaming at me this morning. All she ever does is make me miserable. So I put some arsenic in her coffee. Not enough to hurt her, and besides, she’ll never know. I just need to take control of something in my [...]
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<– Chapter 4, pt. 2 / Chapter 6 –> So now he’s puttering, which is the equivalent of some fallen angel, headlong skydive from Grace as far as Ray is concerned. When he was recruited into the CIU, he was a battle weary, wide-eyed, five by five sort of combat veteran. He stomped through his [...]
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Continuation of a long Chapter 4. Part 1 can be found here. — Ed. <– Chapter 4, pt. 1 / Chapter 5 –> Ray tells the rest, realizing at some point that his voice has become thin, strained. He sounds like a man on the verge of shrieking. “We located Brezhnaya’s camels tethered in their [...]
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Long chapter, so we’re going to break this one up — Ed. <– Chapter 3 / Chapter 4, pt. 2 –> It takes Ray and Nomar a few minutes to get to Sub-Deck Omicron. It is decidedly out of the way of normal pedestrian traffic, down in the bowels of the ship where passengers aren’t [...]
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I’m sleepy today, so you get poetry. — Ed. Condensation Precipitation Evaporation Later, rinse, repeat. The wind blows; The storm clouds gather. The Rains come Followed by the inevitable Scorching glare of the infant sun. The sky is constantly falling. It’s the cycle of tumultuous And turbid renewal That washes us clean. The world renewed [...]
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If you follow the NFL at all, you really should be catching Pro Football in Pictures every week. The artwork is intentionally low-res, but the commentary is concise, witty and biting. And probably a thousand times more insightful and honest than you’re going to get from ESPN. Flere’s currently got the 2007 weeks posted, with [...]
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I spent some time this evening going through the hard drive on my laptop to free up some storage space and found some pics from the trip to Europe I took with my brothers and one of their college buddies back in January 2005. The photo on the left is my younger brother James (left), [...]
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