I just finished Cowboy Bebop.
All of it.
:: deep breath ::
Watched the movie last night, and it took me a while to get back used to the faster pace of the episodes tonight. The movie, as it tuned out, needed to come before the last three episodes (one standalone, and the 2-parter), not […]
I really enjoyed her as Callisto on on Xena, but honestly— she scares me. But in a good way.
AAl loaned me a copy of The Crystal Method’s albums Tweekend and Vegas, and I’ve been listening to ’em an awful lot over the past few days. It’s good music to listen to while you’re working, not unlike the Blue Man Group album Audio.
Now that Apple has released iTunes for Windows, as well as the iTunes Music Store (or iTMS), I thought I’d try using their new iTMS Link Maker to share these musical choices:
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Sadly the enhanced image links are now long broken
— Ed. 2026-07-14
Don’t have iTunes? Now you can pick it up for Mac or Windows:
I find that I often agree with Roger Ebert’s reviews of movies, and again, I agree with him here, in a small essay against the most evil of powered lawn implements: the leaf blower.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/eb-feature/cst-edt-ebert14.html
As a side note, I have often said that if, at some point, I am to be responsible for a large amount of land, like a homestead or that artists’ village I keep dreaming about, I will require all of the groundskeepers to use hand-powered tool at all times, excepting if they need to prune a very large dying tree or something. Rakes and old-style push mowers are nearly as efficient, and much easier to abide when you’re trying to concentrate.
I had a humbling conversation this morning with an editor friend, about how when you’re around people more creative than you, you feel energized, like you’re going to suck some of it up just by being around them; whereas when you spend a great deal of time around people duller than you, you’re made to […]
I have never seen so many bad Terminator, Total Recall and bodybuilding puns in all my life, and it’s all because of this:
Davis Is Ousted as California Governor in Recall Election