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Day 663: Movies For Those Who Hate Themselves
Ever since I began working toward my vocationally hopeless major of film studies, friends and family began assuming that I would drift into the realm of the film hipster. That I would forego whatever...
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Day 670: Tricking And Treating And Singing And Eating
In a few hours I will be visited by a myriad of Captain Jack Sparrows and Spidermen, Walking Dead-types and three-and-a-half-foot Jedi. Some kids will get the good chocolate, while others will get the...
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Day 674: How To Screw Yourself Over In One Simple Temporal Paradox
So Marty McFly shows up back in 1985, the timeline restored and the set-up in place for a whacky epilogue. His parents are now confident and healthy, his brother has an office job and his sister no...
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Day 681: Six Heroes
You’ve probably never heard of Charles Davis Lucas. Like most recipients of the Victoria Cross, the highest honor awardable to members of the British and Commonwealth military forces, his name is far...
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Day 696: Here is Ceres
If you haven’t read the article or seen the t-shirt, you’re probably nevertheless aware that our ninth planet, Pluto, was demoted in 2006 to the meager status of dwarf planet, a lower classification...
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Day 704: The Angel Of Budapest
After trudging through a kilograph of hatred, bigotry and anti-Semitism yesterday, my soul needs a purge, a forceful injection of positivity. While there is undoubtedly a trough of sludge and sentient...
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Day 710: Wolfgang Pauli – Physicist, Genius, Breaker of Stuff
Do you sometimes feel as though you’re haunted by bad mojo? Do you sense a crinkly shadow slurping up your footsteps, stalking you with hand-wringing deviousness and an insidious yen to muck up your...
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Day 725: Christmas Day, 1914.
No matter what you’ll be doing today, there will be no escaping that subtle shift in the light, the quirky zigzag of distorted collective energy – it’s Christmas, and the world always looks, sounds...
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Day 728: Creative Anti-Crime Tech
Presbycusis. Not a word one hears often in polite conversation, in fact it’s not a word that the good folks at Microsoft felt necessary to plop into their default dictionary, according to the squiggly...
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Day 739: Freedom Is In The Eye Of The Guy With The Big Stick
Looking for a way to feel old? With a few exceptions, the only people who vividly remember the events of 9/11 first-hand are now legally eligible to vote. Those of us who can recall it are easily able...
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Day 744: The Mothers Of All Sauces
In traditional French haute-cuisine (which is defined as French food that is neither fries nor onion soup nor yellow bottled mustard), sauces are the most crucial part of the dish. If you think of...
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Day 745: Mind Over Brain Matter
It is more than a little discomforting to imagine the center of one’s universe of perception, that grey squishy head-gloop that defines for us our life, our world and our being, getting plopped onto a...
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Day 759: The Scar Tissue Of The Elite
They tell me that chicks dig scars. I’ve got one permanent battle etching upon my exterior, and when I was single it did nothing to improve my social life. Sure, it’s just a 1½-inch tic across two of...
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Day 770: The Summerless Summer
This year the news has been splattered by alarming weather reports like a silent film soundstage wall after take thirteen of an epic pie fight. Much of the western world has been grappling with...
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Day 776: Of Fingers And Knuckles And Stuff
Faced with the prospect of a sixth trip to the dentist in two months for the same misbehaving molar, I find myself begrudgingly short on optimism for today. Rather than delve through another tale of a...
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Day 788: Vintage Celluloid Boobery
Whenever I’m assessing a question of morality, I like to assume the vantage point of an interplanetary visitor from an advanced race, dropping in to see how humanity stacks up to their alien...
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Day 799: Poon Adrift
Each of us possesses a limited reach of survival, a finite extension of our bodies’ and minds’ capabilities to endure. Fortunately, we live within the sanctuary of modernity, with a rather slim...
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Day 803: The Shocking (Pun Tragically Intended) War Of Currents
While ruminating on beer and movies and the mighty Cleveland Browns may fuel the tip-tap-thump of my dancing fingers, every so often I owe it to myself and to my rapt and generous audience to dip into...
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Day 813: Biting The Bullet
To my fellow fans of tweaked reality, I ask: what is the ultimate magic trick? Is it David Copperfield sending the Statue of Liberty into a temporary netherworld? David Blaine bending the laws of...
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Day 836: When Wars Simply Won’t End
I don’t like to get overtly political on this site, but I’m going to roll the dice and potentially alienate some of my audience by taking a firm stand: war, for the most part, is not good. What’s...
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