Hello everyone! Didja have a great weekend? Same as always with mine -- fairly uneventful, didn't get nearly as much done as I should have, which is to say that I got some things done (frex, a Scary-Crayon review of an educational Batman game, not to mention some food photography that I'll hopefully write up soon -- I've got months of backlogged food articles) but not others. This, of course, is understandable, as it would be absurd for me to expect to be able to accomplish everything that I'd like to do in a single weekend... but then again, my personality does have certain ridiculous aspects to it.

Let's play a game! You read the rest of this post and then, in the comments (in addition to whatever else you'd like to add), you can try to guess what the fuck that is up there. Here's a hint: It smelled even worse than it looks!

Anyway, let's have a bit of linkage. (more...)

Holy shit, I just heard something that sounded like a cat shrieking at the top of its lungs and having its chest bitten into at the same time so that the horrible sound and a huge gust of breath escaped through multiple cavities in one simultaneous and chilling rush. Either that or a child whacking a chihuahua with a mud-filled plastic accordian-like mallet. Scary stuff.

And now I'm off to bed. Sweet dreams, Wes... 🙁

So here's that other fiction piece I mentioned -- a dialogue of sorts that has been more/less repeated multiple times in the course of my life. People say they'll come back, that we'll remain in contact, but no one ever does. Why would they? I am not welcome or pleasant company. Anyway, enjoy...

Incapability and Inevitability
(perhaps to spawn The Catacombs?)

"I would tell you that I love you," he snorted, "if I were capable of the emotion."

"What are you saying? You are capable of anything that you believe you are capable of," she told him.

"Then I do not believe that I am capable of 'love.'" (more...)

To the folks with whom I was chatting last night and then suddenly disappeared, my apologies! It seems that the lack of sleep I'd been getting during the week suddenly caught up with me in a single moment. I barely remember looking away at once and stumbling over crap to climb into my bed! And then this morning I discovered that I hadn't even bothered to turn my monitor off -- which I hardly ever forget to do for fear of burning out the monitor -- to highlight the sudden nature of this compulsion to sleep. Anyway, I hope (and am pretty sure that...!) I wasn't terribly missed. And hey, I'm up awake before 6 PM, meaning I might actually get something done today! 😀

So, as promised, those two drunken mp3s from the other night -- two versions of a drunken Wes voicing a selection from Bif Naked's "Anything"! There's the singing version and then the spoken version. Both very embarrassing; I don't know why I'm posting them here! Ah well. 😛

And finally, a mancrush! I don't know about you, but I think that Gackt is bloody gorgeous. Seriously, that is one beautiful dude! On that page, I think Kyoko Fukada is pretty delectable too... but she's hardly as comely as Gackt. Sugoi!

All for now. Ja ne, minna-san!

Hey all -- hope you've been well these past couple of days! I've been terribly exhausted. Haven't made much headway in Timothy Findley's Pilgrim (the book I'm currently reading) on the bus this week, as I keep nodding off and allowing the book to fall to the floor every time I try to read! (Which isn't to say that the book is boring -- far from it, actually!) But hey, it's FRIDAY, no? Looking forward to catching up on sleep this weekend. Not to mention writing two or three SC articles! Speaking of which, the 47th Hot Flash went up yesterday.

My position was officially posted today, which means that they should ideally have someone new hired in three to four weeks -- probably five max. Which means that you should look for me in NYC in six to eight weeks! Speaking of looking for me in NYC, I'll be in town next weekend! I'll be arriving in the morning on Saturday the 23rd and leaving on the evening of the 24th. So if anyone wants to hang with me, hit me up and we'll schedule something! Natch, I'm planning on hitting up Chinatown in the daytime -- gotta get my requisite Asian cinema fix. 🙂

All for now -- but I've actually got a handful of ideas for upcoming entries! In addition to another romantic selection from the archives of former Wes, we've got two mp3s I recorded last night on the way and a post about my apparent lack of social skills as indicated by my reservations about attending certain events! And whenever I get around to it, I plan to add a little page about myself to the site. Ja!