Starting 1 January 2006, the IMEX catalog will be available only on the web.

Apparently Joss won’t be at DragonCon after all (there are actual comments ostensibly from him on the Whedonesque page). This sucks, but the suck is somewhat mitigated by the fact that we would have missed his scheduled panel anyway. Update: It’s looking more and more like Universal has committed Joss to be there. We’ll be […]

Harper’s enumerates a number of decidedly un-Christian behaviors of the most professedly Christian nation (we’re more professedly Christian than Israel is Jewish, f’r Chrissakes). The author calls it a paradox; I’m inclined to call it hypocrisy, or maybe just ignorance of what Christ is reported to have taught.

Why does some Mexican music sound like polkas? Because it is polkas! An interesting story about German immigration to Texas, the invention of the accordion, and that big stew of musical mixing.

Another trailer link: Retro Camping Club of France.

Since we moved to a more serious web hosting solution, I’ve had better access to statistics, including which search queries people are using (on the up side, I don’t have to scan through the URLs in the log; on the down side, the log parser my hosting company uses doesn’t recognize queries from very many […]

It’s like seeing some alternate timeline version of me: an art taxidermist! There’s your standard jackalope, and your less-standard punk squirrel (mother’s day is coming up….). If I worked in an elementary school, I would have one of the creepier items in my office, so the kids would gape at it, eyes like saucers. Since […]

If this blog had categories, this would be in the "shut up and think what I tell you" category.

I was always sorry that I missed this exhibit at the Burke Museum, but here it is: the artifacts of daily life during the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

If this is true, I’ll think hard about getting a TiVo. I don’t think my tv has any spare inputs, though…