One of the many reasons I decided to sink some money into getting my own site was to try out some of the pieces of web software I have run across in my 'net travels. I have tried out WordPress,...

Christopher Walken Interviews a Centaur - video [via] "Would you mind if I asked you a few questions about being a centaur?" "Please, go ahead. Believe me I've heard them all." Cool Map of NYC c.1940 [via] Notes a commenter,...

"I am a genius", I thought as I stared at the large calendar plastered to the wall behind my boss's desk. Black letters marched all across the surface of the calendar marking birthdays, work anniversaries, vacation days planned and vacation...

This post is not for you all, the readers, but is instead in deference to my own obsessive need to keep copies of things. I decided that in light of my decision to stop blogging in several different locations and...

9/11 WAS AN INSIDE JOB!!!!!! BUSH SR...INVOLVED IN THE GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY TO ASSASSINATE JFK?!?!?!?! WE NEVER LANDED ON THE MOON!!!!! I pride myself on being skeptical. Under most arenas of my life a deep undercurrent of disbelief runs, causing...

Found this via pretty helmet who found it on wikihow. How To Dissuade Yourself From Becoming A Blogger: 1. Find five completely random blogs, and read them daily for a month. After thirty days, you will absolutely dread your self-imposed...

Normally I only post videos over at myspace, but this song and it's accompanying video were so lovely that I decided to put them up here. I had heard Emiliana Torrini before on the soundtrack to "Lord of the Rings:...

Abngdon, VA photoset @ flickr Last year during the unexpected Washington, D.C trip, I was pulled over by a Virginia State Trooper for exceeding the posted speed limit by 10-15 mph. Fortunately, that was as far over the limit I...

For Christmas a few years ago, my friends David and Reatha gave me a copy of Monica Wood's "The Pocket Muse", a book of ideas and encouragement for writers. Unfortunately, it was given about four or five weeks before I...

*Updated, see below.* I grew up listening to Christian rock. In those days, when the seeds of the current Christian Ghetto were just being planted, the Jesus Music wave had crested and carved out an entire new industry from the...