Blogger…No More
The time has come, I think. I started this blog almost two years ago to the day, January 29, 2003. Blogger’s profile pages are a little wonky, not having updated since November, but I figure even with my decreased output over the past couple of months, it’s been close to 600 posts and 200,000 words
Pumpkin Seeds: Winter Blahs Edition
1. What to do? Against my better instincts, this blog is quickly becoming one of those personal, “yesterday I went to the Mall” kind of blogs that I find terribly boring. It’s not that I don’t have as much to say as I used to – god forbid that day ever comes! – but for
Pumpkin Seeds: Will I Ever Write a Complete Post Again? Edition
1. I was heading to the airport the Sunday before last for my trip to Miami when I realized I hadn’t flown since August of 2001, to Seattle for my last National Poetry Slam. Nine days and six flights later, I’ve had my fill of airports to last me another 3.5 years! Almost every one
Pumpkin Seeds: A Little Bit of This, A Little Bit of That Edition
1. So, this time around a Democratic Senator decided to show a little backbone as California’s Barbara Boxer stepped up and joined the House’s challenge of the certification of the electoral college results, specifically in regards to the issues in Ohio. Unlike in 2000 where not a single one stepped forward to support members of
Pumpkin Seeds: Seven Days “Post-Op” Edition
1. I really hope the idea that how you start the New Year reflects the tone the rest of it will take is way off base. 2. Trip #4 to the ER yesterday included an excruciating round of poking and prodding of the wound – literally, a pair of surgical scissors stuck up in there
Real-Life ER Drama
I visited the ER many times as an accident-prone kid – and a couple of times as a still-accident-prone adult – almost always for stitches, almost always somewhere in my head, to the point that one time, after seeing it done so often, my mother got medieval and fashioned her own butterfly stitch for one
Profiling Jehovah’s Witnesses
“Game recognizes game.” Or in this case, former Jehovah’s Witnesses recognize current ones. There’s a youngish couple in our building that I pegged as JWs a while back and finally had my J-dar confirmed when they came knocking during the Jets game yesterday. Something about the way they carried themselves rang familiar, but it was
Pumpkin Seeds: Gonzalez’s Twelve Edition
1. The difference between sanity and insanity is whether or not you do what the voices tell you. 2. If you know you’re a sore loser, it’s best not to answer the phone for an hour or so after your team loses the game you talked so much trash about. 3. Don’t tell my wife
Comment: A Fanboy’s Rant #1
1. One of the sequences in Comic Book Superheros Unmasked (2003) dealt with the crash of the comic industry during the early 90s. I’d like to bring up one point made by Marvel’s Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada during the interview, where he basically states that the variant cover phenomenon during that time played a big part
Pumpkin Seeds: STFU! Edition
1. Democrats whining about the election. It’s pretty clear there were various problems across the country, as there always have been, but crying foul-play after your guy limply threw in the towel and disappeared is self-flagellation at its most annoying. Screw Kerry, deal with reality and start working on fixing the system that stuck us