Santa brought me a chair for Christmas, where I am sitting right now as I type (though possibly not as you read). It’s my favourite chair, an exact replica of the chair I had back in LA. It is a Poäng chair from IKEA, my favourite chair from my favourite home furnishings supplier. Despite its [...]
Three times I have been prodded, and so it shall be. I am bound to blog, unlucky are ye. I usually like Christmas. A lot. This year a series of mildly irritating circumstances in the immediate runup to the holiday reminded me of all the stuff I really despise about Christmas.
I’ve been enjoying a faster-than-dial-up net connection in my hotel during this trip back – and its trying to make my head twist off with the cognitive dissonance. On the one hand, there’s all the peak oil stuff. On the other hand, there’s the Pussycat Dolls.
@hodgman was in Battlestar Galactica for a cameo recently, and he was brilliant. He was on The Daily Show, and was brilliant. And to my total joy, he was on one of my favourite podcasts, This American Life. Guess what? He was brilliant. Each TAL is a themed set of vignettes of interesting people living [...]
Having my bi-decannual tilt at the windmill of ‘gonna write me a novel…’ and as part of that I’ve been rereading the first (97-98) effort which, amusingly, is a near future thing from back then which means its recent history now…