Thus revealed, the creature buried its nose in the tire-tilled soil...
May 15, 2011
Vampire Haiku inspiration
Category: Books

I just read a book!
The title: Vampire Haiku.
It was amusing.

I'd never really thought about the existence of novellas in haiku, but that's pretty much what Ryan Mecum's Vampire Haiku is! It's not really a continuous story -- the book is presented as the haiku journal of one vampire, and mostly they simply consist of observations and that aren't necessarily connected -- but there is a certain consistency and there are references to past events. Most of the entries are also dated, though a lot of time passes between written dates -- sometimes decades. The book is only 137 pages yet purports to span nearly 400 years (it begins in 1620 and concludes in 2009). (more...)

-posted by Wes | 10:45 pm | Comments (2)
April 21, 2011
Oh Lis Sladen
Category: Current Events … Linkage … Serious … TV, Film, & DVDs

Eldrad Must Live

She will be missed. (more...)

-posted by Wes | 9:58 pm | Comments (3)
March 13, 2011
Totally Crushing: Helen Cutter
Category: Totally Crushing … Toys … TV, Film, & DVDs

You don't even want to know how long this post has been in draft status -- though there are a couple of posts that have been there even longer. Anyway, here's the latest (but unfortunately not the late-est) Totally Crushing entry: Helen Cutter!

Cleavage and a kerchief. What's not to love?

(more...)

-posted by Wes | 8:44 am | Comments (8)
Firefox 4.0!
Category: Technical Stuff

I am now rocking the program, and getting it set up to my liking -- updating and seeking out new add-ons, replacing my broken theme (with Nuvola, for the time being), changing configuration values, and so forth -- took several hours out of my day that I hadn't planned on losing. So far it's decent. I don't like the removal of the status bar (fortunately, Status-4-Evar restores that functionality), and some of the default options are less than ideal (tabs on top; what's up with that?) -- and the program appears to be a memory hog (which is admittedly nothing new) -- but I haven't had any crashes yet. ((Erm, I think I spoke too soon about the crash thing there... though I'm pretty sure that was due to one of these plugins. Hey, speaking of plugins, dig this crazy WordPress footnote thing!)) (more...)

-posted by Wes | 7:57 am | Comments (1)
February 24, 2011
Tonight's dinner
Category: Miscellany

Poured dry oatmeal, salt, garlic powder, cajun seasoning, cornmeal, and sliced frozen carrots and squash into a bowl, then poured half a beer on top of that. Nuked for several minutes, added a teaspoon of mayonnaise and a handful of flax seed. Stirred and consumed.

-posted by Wes | 8:39 pm | Comments (5)