unlikely ways to go

Gamma ray burst destroys the earth’s ozone layer.
Brain eating amoeba gets up your nose.
Stung by a Box Jellyfish.
Hippos kill more people than any other animal?
Death by legal execution –your odds are 1 in 62,468

night of the hideous yowling destructo-mammal

It’s not my story. It’s Scot’s. He doesn’t have a blog so I’ll tell it, and I’ll probably miss some important parts and maybe get something wrong or out of order, but here’s what happened as I understand it:
After watching a horror movie at a theater, Scot came home and entered his house. His cat [...]

The Kite Runner – the movie

I had an opportunity to see a sneak preview of this at SIFF recently. Pretty good because it’s a pretty good story. In some ways improves upon the book, in other ways, no. Sure, it’s Hollywood-ified: starts with kites, ends with kites, includes some smarmy music in between as it dutifully takes you through the [...]

“fetal horses, for example, may gallop in the womb”

A quote from a New Yorker article, “The Abyss,” by Oliver Sacks. I hope to fit that phrase into a song lyric someday

it’s tricky

Anything on the piano that involves using fingers and coordinating them is too tricky. Once again, recital time is coming up in a few weeks. I’m playing Elvis Costello’s “Almost Blue” over and over again to get ready, but it doesn’t matter, because here’s the process that occurs when playing in front of other people:
1. [...]

movie dialog art

The goddess of links (Maggie) gave me this one–arty images made from film dialog. My favorites are “Blade Runner” and “Blow-up,” not coincidentally my favorites among the movies on the page that I’ve seen.

Burnt Out and moon-mined

Dang me. I forgot to put a link to Carol’s Burning Man comic. She and Becca also witnessed the first of the two man-burnings. I’m jealous that she saw a meteor streak across the lunar eclipse. Maybe not coincidentally, her next comic was moon-based also. Maybe we’re in for a moony series. That would be [...]

a sight for sore eyes

Ow! It hurts looking at these pictures of Hushvillans (the annual group shot). What a motley crew. It’s going to hurt even more when a bunch of us gather in West Seattle tomorrow. My eyes will be bleeding.