Category: Personal
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Turkeys
Did I mention before about how bad my NaNoWriMo thing is sucking? Because it bears repeating. In my head, it’s a rollicking adventure story that ingeniously reinvents pop culture conventions and cliches, cleverly making light of the shallowness of these conventions while staying true to what’s great about these popular adventures and what makes them…
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Embedded Journalism
I’m reporting live from suburban Atlanta, where I’m rethinking my earlier claim that nothing is colder than San Francisco weather. It’s 18 degrees right now. They’re predicting a high of 28 degrees tomorrow. I mean sure, the “snow and freezing rain” effect on the Apple Dashboard weather gadget is pretty cool, but eighteen degrees. I’ve…
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Schadenflavin
That’s the act of taking pleasure in someone else’s pratfalls and stepping on rakes and having buckets end up on their heads. Mac made it up. Use the word. Coin it. COIN IT! I’m going to Disneyland! The Taskmaster is going to be at my apartment at the ass crack of dawn tomorrow so I’d…
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Fat Drum
I was in Japan Town for dinner tonight and was reminded of the International Taiko Festival this weekend at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco. I’m not going this year because I’m headed to Disneyland for Jessica’s birthday, but everybody else should go. Seriously. The shows are really spectacular on every level, breaking out…
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Dire
Things are pretty dismal in the world of kludgey, predictable, cliched literature. I’m still stuck just under 10,000 words and have been stalled for about a week now. I can confirm that the key to the whole NaNoWriMo thing is momentum, since I haven’t been all that compelled to go back to the thing and…
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The Disney Taint
Tonight after work I decided to go see Chicken Little at The The The El Capitan Theater in Hollywood. I’ve been wanting to see the theater for a while now, and I had to do something to make up for not going to Disneyland this trip, and it was showing in Disney Digital 3D! I’m…
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Banned from Disneyland
No Disneyland for me this week, since they’re only keeping the park open until 8pm every night. Even I’m not stupid enough to drive at least an hour and a half through Los Angeles rush hour traffic to be able to spend 30 minutes to an hour in the happiest place on earth. Okay, I…
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Behind
I haven’t done the actual calculations, but I reckon I’m around 5,000 words behind in my creative masterpiece. And that’s what’s finally convinced me that the NaNoWriMo thing is a good idea. Before, whenever I told myself I would write my Great American Novel or Life-Altering Screenplay or Subtly Disguised Semi-Autobiographical Erotic Escapade*, I would…
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I am a fashion god.
When I was looking around SFGate’s tech news section to cannibalize it for that column I’m supposed to be writing, I found this article about an e-mail exchange between the former FEMA director and his staff. Remember all that stuff I was saying about “never assume evil when incompetence will suffice?” Yeah, scratch that. There’s…
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naDevvo’ yIghoS!*
I just went outside for my just-before-bed cigarette to find a Klingon passed out on my front steps. He was moaning and occasionally mumbling phrases (in English) like “got to get…” and “no man don’t do that…” before rolling over. He was on his side, so I don’t think he was in danger of doing…
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As Bitter As The William Shatner Section of a “Star Trek” Cast Member’s Autobiography
Oh yeah: I’ve heard that writing is just like anything else, you have to practice at it before you get better. (Hence this weblog). So I’ve been spending the day limbering up, coming up with lines that I’ll never use. The MUNI bus seat was so vile and disgusting that even Rosa Parks would’ve refused…
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If You Go Out In The Woods Today
I wrote earlier about the teddy bear who’d collapsed on his way towards my apartment. Unfortunately not all the toys in San Francisco are so lucky. In rougher neighborhoods, like Haight-Ashbury, you come across scenes like this one. Mac and I had a Stand By Me moment a while back when we came across this…