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Once when I was a kid, I had a nightmare about being chased by Jason from the Friday the 13th movies. The dream was completely inacurate, because I had never seen Friday the 13th, or even knew what Jason looked like. My entire experience with the film had been the VHS movie case at my [...]

remember that time i went to san francisco? 2

The St. Regis Hotel in downtown San Francisco was probably the poshest hotel I’ve ever been in. The phone had a touchscreen LCD, which was kind of lame, until I discovered I could touch a button to have housekeeping sent up, turn on the “Do Not Disturb” light, raise and lower the blinds, and a [...]

dear [adult swim]: please save pushing daisies 1

You aired Family Guy enough to have it picked back up by Fox.  You aired Futurama over and over again to the point that they regularly release straight-to-DVD movies.  Now I’m asking you to work the same watch-it-over-and-over-until-we-demand-more magic with Pushing Daisies, one of the most original series to get canceled from TV in recent [...]

why i did nanowrimo (and why i quit) 2

NaNoWriMo, the “write a 50,000 word novel in a month people”, are insane.  But I did it anyway.  I did it because I used to write all my long form stuff like I write my short form stuff.  I obsessed over every line, focused on layout, and tried to make the first draft the final [...]

addressing a personal pet peeve 5

A regularly maintained website with entries organized in reverse chronological order is called a “blog”. An individual entry on such a website is called a “post” (“entry” works as well). Thereby, the statement, “I wrote a blog yesterday” is inaccurate unless, of course, you are talking about writing the entire site. Please, spread the word [...]