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My thoughts and ramblings on whatever pops into my head. Why should you listen to me? No particular reason, but I put thought into what I write, I hope what I offer is coherent, and I welcome challenges and well-reasoned thought.

Latest Blog Posts

  • Reaching Your Quarterlife Crisis with Dignity on Nov 7, 2009 in Madonna aging Spongebob Squarepants silly Life

    Earlier today, I was driving in my car and listening to the local oldies station. I was singing along pleasantly to the end of "Hang on Sloopy" by the McCoys; as it segued into the next song, I nearly slammed the brakes in horror. What was the next s...

  • Why Halloween Is Awesome on Oct 31, 2009

    Perhaps this is a little late in the week (as in the last day of the week), but I still made it! I realized last week that I have a lot of anti-Twilight posts on this blog ever since I decided to try this posting regularly thing. Now, while I probabl...

  • Edward vs. Prince Charming: The Bigger Detriment to Female Will? on Oct 21, 2009

    My failure to keep up my coherent thought a week past 3 weeks is only half-excusable. 2 weeks ago, I could blame being tied up with my dear Anya-berger's wedding. (I'm still trying to figure out how to combine her first name with her new last name...

  • Loving or Losing Literacy? on Oct 1, 2009

    Ha, you probably thought I already forgot about my "1 coherent thought a week" venture! I never said I'd do it on the same day every week, right?This week's topic spawns from a conversation with a soon-to-be-former (again) coworker at your friendly n...

  • Thoughts on Tim Burton on Sep 22, 2009

    This is a new thing I'm trying; let's call it an experiment in discipline. I'm going to try to have one coherent, well-formed thought a week that I will post about. Particularly for the past year, I've been very sporadic in my posting--sometimes a bi...

  • My Comic-Con 2009 Adventure :-) on Aug 13, 2009

    I know, I know--for everyone else in the world, this is old news already. And I really meant to get this posted much earlier, but my excuse is that Borders is slowly sucking away my soul and will to live. So, here goes...Lindsay and Katherine picked...

  • In Defense of Hating Michael Bay on Jun 23, 2009

    Disclaimer: As the author of this blog, I reserve the right to delete any comments that I deem offensive. In this case, I will be counting any comments defending Michael Bay or other so-called "filmmakers" of his caliber as offensive in addition to w...