Sooo… right now I’m living temporarily in Cape Town, South Africa. There are endless stories of aching sadness and everlasting redemption that I could tell you. But for now, I’ll focus on the somewhat innane. I’d say that 90% of white people who live in South African cities have maids. It’s just how it is; [...]

And if you’re not, there should be some ceremony where you have to start calling yourself German until further notice.

Dr. Alexander Treviņo’s office in the Diehn Fine and Performing Arts Center at Old Dominion University serves many functions: storeroom, office, de facto conductor’s chambers (where Treviņo does his seamstress work), and military-style recruitment and operations center. It also has the only blue door in the building.

“Nobody forgets the truth,” Kate Winslett’s character says of suburbanites abjectly not living their dreams, “They just get better at lying.” And isn’t it the truth?

As anyone who likes going to see movies knows, they tend to suck these days. They’re all action or horror or cartoons or dance contests between hot white chicks and hot black chicks… Have we become completely, totally, irretrievably base? Because what’s popular says a lot about who we are as a people, as a culture: our tastes, our values, whether we just want to be pacified, or if we demand to be inspired.

I knew there was still secretly some reason to live. What isn’t great about this show? You’ve got like 25 pretty, reasonable girls who are desperately trying not to appear crazy. These women say that they’re all emotional because of their love/lust/desperate-need-for-validation for The Bachelor, but I know the real reason that they’ve been crying [...]

12:21 I’m going to eat a killer fake-chicken salad sandwich after this. And I’ll feel like I deserved a good meal if for no other reason than I voted for this man. 12:24 But just voting wasn’t enough. If all of us who were so excited about this election, all of us who knocked on [...]

12:04 Oh boy, here it is… Cheif Justice is coming out to do the oath. I know I was joking before but… well… 12:05 I’m getting a little misty. 12:05 Protect that Constitution, Obama! 12:06 It happened so quick! Shouldn’t there at least be some sort of passing of a sword involved? Should we make [...]

Part 1 You watching the inauguration alone? Well, now you can pretend you watched it with me. My running diary: 11:37 It’s not enough that Cheney is in a wheelchair… but why that weird, drooling lean to the right? Just because you’re in a wheelchair doesn’t mean you can relax all body muscles, buddy. 11:38Nice [...]