new writin's

new writin's

Ok, so I seem to have lept over the intended Ebertfest posts with that last entry. I promise I will return to them shortly.

Mainly, that last post -- and to an extent, this one -- are elaborate tests of my new mobile blogging software on my phone. If you haven't noticed, I'm in something of a posting explosion. I don't think I've posted this many posts in a row since when I first opened this blog.

Perhaps, just perhaps, some of them will have something of substance to say soon.

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untitled poem

untitled poem

i rant
sometimes the pretty
girls will seem to me
a strange thing and
foreign entirely, stumbling
in to find their sugar
and coffee, left brown
and black, espresso crema,
settling quickly,
a quickly diminished art.
mocha colored blood
and burnt fingers that
crept too close to the
steam wand,
no matter.caffiene is the world's happiest drug
and those without it are
left far behind.

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ebertfest, in transit

ebertfest, in transit

I'm not really in transit at this point, but I've not yet seen any movies. Apocolypse Now Redux starts in about an hour, so I suppose this first post is simply me checking in.

Also, does anyone else think there should be more movies set along rivers? Apoc Now, Aguirre: Wrath of God, and a couple other really good flicks out there. I love the juxtaposition of man's feral nature vs nature's unyieldingness. Something about that really strikes me somewhere primal.

Click the title of this post to check out streaming video of the panels I'll be helping film!

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testing, testing, 1, 2, 3....

testing, testing, 1, 2, 3....

Trying out my new mobile blogger platform. Not necessarily something to churn out huge posts, but something to help me get back into blogging more the next couple months.

Here's hoping it works!

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a curious moment

a curious moment

So I just remembered this strange moment I had a few years back.

I was at college, and was in my fedora-wearing-stage. Also, I rode my bike everywhere.

It was late at night, and I was trying to find a party. Or something-- maybe I was trying to find the way home.

And I suddenly found myself in a terrible neighborhood. Poor, and the sort that typically you don't want to find yourself in after dark.

As I'm riding, a group of young black men -- I'd say about 6 or 7 of them -- appear on a doorstep off in the distance. Here I am on my bike, and I'm not the sort of person who goes, "Oh, black men. How menacing." But knowing that the area was not the sort of area one would want to find oneself in, if just speaking statistically, I started to speed up.

And then I heard it.

"Duh, duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh...."

Menacing. And then I realized the fedora on my head. And me, skinny skinny me, riding my awkward looking bike in the dark. ""Duh duh duh duh duh duh DUH!!!

"Inspector Gadget!!!"

They were all singing the Inspector Gadget theme song.



I've been having a lot of days like this lately.

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