The Shattered Prayer

Today is the day that brought to the world the wonderful, exciting, beautiful creature known as Che! What a fantastic day in history this day is. In celebration of Che-Day or Che-Mas, I will recount some of the wonderful ways in which my life is different for having known her.
In the past, we […]

Well, nothing, actually. At least not this year.
Any other year and it would be Che’s birthday, but Che’s birthday is a bit lazy this year and decided not to be the year’s longest day.
I’ll have to come back tomorrow to post about how wonderful Che is. Other wise, happy Che’s Eve.

I am becoming Mary Roach’s biggest fan. After sailing through Stiff, I am now reading Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife. Any fears that Roach’s first book was a one hit wonder were quickly dispelled. The new book is as completely enjoyable as the first.
I haven’t finished it yet, but I […]

I just finished a fantastic book. It is called Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers and it was written by Mary Roach, a Salon.com columnist.
The book details the various things that dead people have done throughout the millennia. As Roach puts it, cadavers are our super-heroes. You can shoot […]

They both prove I’m gay since I asked about them?
Maybe.
But they really show that I am a comic book geek beyond comic book geeks.
Mojo, A the Girl (yes, our daughter is home from college for a week), and I were watching a show where collectors face off in a test of knowledge and skills […]

The Mother’s Day Storm, that is.
Yes, it is true. Che, who managed to flee Katrina right as it was bearing down on New Orleans, did not manage to miss the rash of tornadoes that happened this past weekend. The F2 Tornado that hit Maconga tore right down the street on […]

They also took all the lottery tickets.
At the Train station near my work, there are two little magazine shops. Up until about two week ago, these shops were run by a group of Indian men (one of whom was Oh My God! hot. The others of whom ran the full spectrum of […]

What a beautiful morning! We had dinner last night with two witty and urbane gay men and their three daughters. And now, after a night of wine and witty conversation, we have a clear sky, cool temperatures, and kd lang playing in the background.
What does such a beautiful morning bring to mind? […]

I really enjoyed Doctor Who tonight. I am so very glad that Catherine Tate is the new companion. They couldn’t have chosen better.
To be honest, the choice of Catherine Tate could have gone either way. The last time Doctor Who tried to have a “famous” person be the companion, it […]

I did this once before, so I decided to do it again. I thought I’d post the last two comics I bought. There is a theme if you look closely.
Here is the first one.
And here is the second one.
Now, the theme is very subtle, so you probably won’t realize what it is. […]

Really depressing thing in the news today about Absinthe. Apparently it was about as exotic as Everclear. Nothing really psychotropic about it at all.
Apparently they found some really old (like a century) bottles that were had been unopened since before the ban. When they opened them and performed a chemical […]

I never wrote about Michael’s story on Lost, so here goes. But something far more important is happening tonight. Sarah Jane Smith, erstwhile companion of the third and fourth Doctors (and who has been known to hang out with the tenth) has the U.S. premiere of her show tonight! I for […]

Che has been appreciating the beauty of Smallville’s version of Brainiac (I mean — who wouldn’t appreciate that beauty? Gotta love ol’ Spike.) She therefore right naturally assumed that the comic book version would be just as beautiful.
Well, not quite. Here, then, is a little history of a character who […]

Lost comes on tonight and I didn’t even talk about last week’s episode. So here’s some quick stuff about last week’s episode before tonight’s comes on.
YAY! Jack was almost non-existent!
YAY! Kate was almost non-existent!
That alone made for a really good episode. Let’s just let that sink in.
Ah, bliss.
I think it was […]

These are snippets from conversations I overheard on the subway.
All of them involve numbers in some way.

Conversation Snippet 1
“Can you believe I’m getting six years just because I robbed a bank? Ain’t that some shit?”
Conversation Snippet 2
“Mortgages are for shit, man! It’s like paying rent! Nobody knows that! They all stupid! […]