What do you say to people when they tell you how cute they think your dog is? Do you say “thank you”? Because really, i have very little to do with his cuteness. True, i helped pick him out and every so often i bathe and brush him. But his cuteness is definitely beyond that [...]
This summer i’m observing my ten year high school reunion. In high school i listened almost exclusively to classic rock. In fact, other than The Red Hot Chili Peppers, i was fairly convinced that it’d all been going down hill ever since Kurt Cobain died. The top twenty stations were inundated with mindless boy band [...]
Reading the book The Pleasure Of Finding Things Out by Richard Feynman when i was 19 years old has substantially contributed to the majority of my life’s ‘A Ha!’ moments. It’s no exaggeration to say that i would be a much different person today, and have a drastically more limited grasp of reality without it.
Today, [...]
Tomorrow morning i’m going to get up at the ungodly hour of < 6 (for the life of me, i can’t remember what they call the time that comes before 6:00 am) to take Pi to be neutered. A lot has been said - often jokingly - about the metaphysical identity consequences of neutering an [...]
Today is the fortieth birthday of filmmaker Wes Anderson. In celebratory honor of this event, my post will be about Anderson, his films, and my experiences with them. The following will probably mean nothing to you (will actually contain spoilers) if you haven’t seen Wes Anderson’s movies.
The first Wes Anderson film i saw was The [...]