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I Don’t Like Cyber Mondays

But I do like lasagna. But I’m only happy when it rains.
I didn’t take advantage of Cyber Monday, even though I’m kind of in the market for a cheap laptop. Like with Black Friday, I just really couldn’t handle the crowds. Oh, I did get onto Amazon.com for a little while, but after [...]

Bare Guitar And Plastic Cellos

Karaoke, what have you wrought?
At my family’s Thanksgiving Day celebration, I finally got to play Guitar Hero for the first time. It was Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock on my nephews’ Wii. I tried “Rock Me Like A Hurricane” a couple of times and totally tanked. My nephews laughed at me and [...]

I Am BEOwulf, I Am Da Law

You’ll have to give me a bit of a pass on the daily post. Attending the second funeral in a little over a month of a friend taken too soon has not really put me in the writing mood. Plus, I spent the afternoon shopping, and you know what kind of mood that puts [...]

The I Should Be Shopping Blues

Is this the weirdest day of the year, or what? The day after a major holiday, which in itself has become something of a holiday celebrating consumerism. It’s officially the start of the Ohmigod Christmas Is Almost Here And I Haven’t Done Any Shopping guilt-inducing period. Makes me actually want to go out [...]

I Don’t Know, I’ve Never Kindled

Faithful reader Janet asks, in the comments to yesterday’s post: Hey Flassherooni, to continue an earlier conversation, would you consider devoting a NaBloPoMo entry to your thoughts on Kindle?
Good question, Librarian, and thanks for the topic. (Note: See my recent thoughts on eBooks here and here.) On first perusal, it looks pretty darn [...]

Festival Wrap Up

Day 20 of National Blog Posting Month and I’ve managed to stretch this Denver Film Festival thing out to three posts. Hooray for me! Be glad I didn’t milk it for five, which was my original plan. I generally had a fun time at the Festival this year, and it makes me [...]

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