San Diego

November 28, 2007 -- Tags: Cowboy-Versus-Samurai, San-Diego, Writing

Cowboy opens this weekend in San Diego — I will be there for the Dec. 1st and 2nd shows. I’ll be doing a Q & A after the Dec. 2nd show if you want to stick around and grill me.
This should be a pretty great production — there was a preview article about [...]

Six Hundred Pounds of Man

November 27, 2007 -- Tags: 600 lbs of man, Anger, Food, Sausages, Texas

Today’s true American hero is this angry Texan who called into the Jimmy Dean Sausage complaint line to yell at them about reducing the portion of their sausage roll from 16 ounces to 12 ounces while still charging the same price. Here is a quote, although you should really listen to the audio [...]

Wrecking Ball

November 25, 2007 -- Tags: Dogs, Food, Video-Games

There’s a new Doughboys in Hollywood a few blocks from my friend’s place. We went there last night.
The place is known for its comfort food — I had the Beefy Mac and Cheese, which is kind of like a really good Hamburger Helper. Then I ate a mini red velvet cake. [...]

Currently Reading

November 19, 2007 -- Tags: Evil, Recommended-Books, Vampires

Currently Reading: (Because it’s about time I got around to it)

More on this soon.

On Kindle, Amazon.com’s new electronic book device: An ominous paragraph exists in Kindle’s Terms of Use:
Information Received: The Device Software will provide Amazon with data about your Device and its interaction with the Service (such as available memory, up-time, log [...]

My Glacier Melted

November 18, 2007 -- Tags: Recommended-Books, Running

Currently reading:

This is the sequel to Old Man’s War. I bought it on Friday and I’m already 70% of the way through. Fortunately there’s a third book in the series.
If you’re me, you’ve gotta make time for hard sci-fi. I like the world that the author has built here — one [...]

I’m With Stupid

November 17, 2007 -- Tags: You Dumb

So I’m getting word here that the young female college student who posed the “Diamonds and Pearls” question was actually forced to ask that question by CNN. Apparently she gave them a list of five questions she had crafted, four of them being useful and the fifth being the diamonds/pearls bit, and CNN [...]