Frozen in cumulative cage of bone, FOP

 “For just at that moment the light came over the hill, and there was a mighty twitter in the branches. William never spoke for he stood turned to stone as he stooped; and Bert and Tom were stuck like rocks as they looked at him. And there they stand to...

Freecycle jar cakes!

I have discovered a wonderful place on the interwebs.  A place much like CraigsList, but where everything is free. That place, sirs and madams, is called Freecycle.  Essentially a forum of stuff that people have and are eager to get rid of (or stuff that...

A meeting between cultures, cargo cults

 Say sometime in the future we are contacted by a highly technologically advanced society (for the purposes of this discussion it doesn’t really matter if they’re mole people or extra-terrestrials). How would we react? How would our society change to...

John Updike’s Rules for Reviewers

There’s an interesting post by Harvey Freedenberg over at Beyond the Margins asking about whether book critics and authors can be friends.  He eventually decides that they can be, but the part that drew my interest was when he discussed John Updike’s...

My room is finally coming together

Today was one of the few sunny days in Seattle, which meant one thing for me: I could put my top down on my Camaro.  Which meant that I could finally go and pick up a loft bed from someone on Craigslist.  Now, I need a loft bed because I have oodles of stuff...

Giants, the conclusion

We’ll count Andre, but only because he’s awesome.(This is the third part of a series, start reading here: Giants, big men, and traveler’s tales) Even with all the evidence against giants, I still kind of like the idea of a race of giants hidden out...