Existential Angst

Scenes From A Mall

11 August 2011

Malls are like pitcher plants – traps designed to attract and kill. Nothing crushes the human spirit more than a mall. Nothing except thoughtful contemplation of the people who choose to go to a mall as a sort of social event. I went to a mall earlier this week. I needed to buy a birthday [...]

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Goals

5 August 2011

Sometimes I think about blogging as a medium and I feel like I am not cut out for it. This blog is a record of my life and, really, my life is not entertaining at all.  Seriously not at all, you guys. If I’m going to keep this up, I need to establish goals. Or [...]

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11 January 2011

So, I’m reading Javier Grillo-Marxuach’s “My Year Without Star Wars” at the same time as I’m reading Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Vortex, the sixth part of a nine-part series of Expanded Universe novels in which a sixty-something Luke Skywalker and his teen son fight a Cthuloid space-monster who is a weird, tentacle-y triptych [...]

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Read This.

26 December 2010

“all i know is that they always fail to bring me joy. after many years and repeat viewings in so vast a variety of media, the sad truth is i will probably never understand why they were made, what they are intended to represent, or why i should care.” TV and comic scribe Javier Grillo-Marxuach [...]

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Okay, So There Are These Pods, Right? And You Cast Them.

12 October 2010

A bunch of people told me over the weekend that I should be on a podcast. I am malleable to this sort of manipulation, especially because I’ve thought about doing it before.  But then I remember that the last time I was on a podcast, I think I said that Chromehounds (based on the review [...]

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A Brief Anecdote #2

20 August 2010

So yesterday I made a comment about being biased against Dave Eggers in the comments of someone’s Google Reader item and BOOM – some total stranger swoops in like Batman and says “shut the fuck up Jeff.” Whoa, right? My first thought was that the commenter was Dave Eggers himself (who I’ve done a bit [...]

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A Brief Anecdote

12 August 2010

One time I was walking out of the Blockbuster Video in Edwardsville, PA, carrying a movie (I don’t remember which movie) and I got into my car. There was a boy, maybe ten maybe twelve, coming up the strip mall sidewalk toward me, past the chinese buffet, past the Little Caesar’s, past the Radio Shack [...]

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Treinta y Dos

11 August 2010

I am one year older than I was when last I posted. Thirty-one was alright. I fell in love. Stopping right there, that’s a good year. Despite being self-published, I managed to tell a comic book story I could put my name on, with the help of my talented friends. I took on new job [...]

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This is Stuck in My Head Right Now

7 July 2010

Bill Cosby is releasing an iPhone app. Which probably has nothing to do with this and probably a lot to do with the kids and the hip hop and the Pokemans.

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Angela Chase Talks About the Issues

28 June 2010

[Sometimes, we could all benefit from a glimpse at the modern political landscape through the eyes of self-absorbed teen heroine Angela Chase of MTV's short-lived series My So-Called Life.] The Nomination of Elena Kagan for Supreme Court Justice Can she, like, make those awful sweaters that Sharon always wears against the law? Are they going [...]

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