Everybody else is doing it, so why can’t I?

You know how “Brokeback Mountain” (the short story) starts out with Ennis waking up from a dream with Jack Twist in it? And something about how he savors that dream to make it last the whole day? Well, what do you know, last week I had myself one of those “HAH” funny dreams that must [...]

Just some random semi-nerdy stuff that I came across today while going through Wiki:

I celebrate my birthday along with H.P. Lovecraft, FPJ (who knew!), Connie Chung, and Fred Durst, among others.
The Birthday paradox says that in a group of 23 or more people, there is more than a 50% chance that two people will share [...]

Reading the Wiki article for Paul Gaugin (don’t ask me why — bored in the office + reading “My Friend Leonard” + Wiki is such a convenience), I came across this sentence:
Best known as a painter, his bold experimentation with coloring led directly to the Synthetist style of modern art while his expression of the [...]

American Psycho is one of those books; either you love it or hate it; either you got it or you didn’t. You either thought it was hilarious, or you were disgusted by all the blood and gore depicted in the book. Bret Easton Ellis, who wrote the book, said that he patterned Patrick Bateman on [...]

So I was sick the last week, and had nothing to do but stay at home and watch TV, which was the good life, really, other than the fact that my tongue lay thick and useless in my mouth like a flaccid penis, and I was coughing so much my head hurt. But at least [...]

The boyfriend and I were having this discussion last night about how irritated he was at people who fancy themselves cooler than cool. You know the type; we were all pretentious and smug at some point in our lives (for some people, all of their lives), and then when we get past that stage, we [...]

So I was out of commission for about a couple of weeks, the first because I was on leave and was actually too lazy to write; instead I spent my days watching reruns of Law and Order (which I love) and Cold Case (which I feel ambiguous about — she’s so white).
And the second because [...]

What they sound like is Better than Ezra, and Barenaked Ladies, bands I started to listen to in the late 90s and in the first few years of the new millenium that featured a lot of rhythm guitars, a lot of pianos, some orchestra. None of the falsettos from Coldplay, or the synthesized sounds so [...]