weapons of massdistraction

Never mind election brouhahas for now (I’m allowing myself a 30-day period of denial), there are enough headlines to hold my attention without delving into that topic. Let’s start with the bad:
“Police use stun gun on 6-year-old boy” and how on earth this could possibly be okay. Sure, something needed to be done [...]

I missed last night’s screening of Tarnation. Lucky Chuck was able to go and hobnob with the filmerati afterwards. But I’m not bitter. And I was productive, at least. Met up with some other NaNoWriMos and cranked out 4000 or so more words throughout the day. Will also be missing The Pixies tonight, for [...]

It’s been an unexpectedly beautiful day. Sunny and warm, with a healthy mix of productivity and r&r. Today I:

got a fair amount of writing in at the coffee shop in the morning;
realized just how punk rock the husband is. He who wears his clothing until it is literally falling apart (photo exhibit a);
had my [...]

We have a treat for you today…a rare appearance by, gasp, the husband. He’s not imaginary after all, I swear. So all weekend I’ve been typing like a madwoman. Yesterday, skipping the one day of gorgeous weather to catch up on my NaNoWriMo word count (and then some), and today coding like a fiend [...]

Chuck first emailed me in March of 2003, as I’d tentatively signed up for a local weblogger meetup (I never did show). We started visiting each other’s blogs, and returning, as we found we shared many common interests. In August of that year, we met IRL. Chuck was screening a rough cut of Blogumentary, [...]