Thanks for the Memory

A quick thanks to Tommy, Janine's brother, who kindly sent me 2 gigs of RAM and some headphones, all in a ploy to get me into the fairly addictive world of City of Heroes. In it, one creates his or her own superhero from scratch, and launches it into a globally interactive cityscape filled with other superheroes from players all over the world.

The real fun, of course, comes in character creation...

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Oh yes, the Tobacconist was originally supposed to have been the Savage Cabbage, but that name had already been taken. Somehow.

And every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth shall be an abomination.

Thanks to my Dad for scanning umpteen slides into digital form. I hadn't seen this photo since shortly after it was taken.

Done and Done

I'm very tired at the moment, but in a state of muted glee. This is the last day I'll be here in the Siberia of Lancaster, Ohio for the foreseeable future. I think I can honestly say that this has been the longest week and a half in memory, to the point where I'm having trouble remembering what life was like before Januray 24th. Didn't I have a wife? A home? Somewhere... was it Connecticut?

Fillet of Soul Sessions: Feist

Feist performing in studio at KCRW, an NPR affiliate in Santa Monica. The song, venue, lady herself, it's all just too goddamn hip for words.

Part 2

Fillet of Soul's Late Nite Music Club with the Innocence Mission

The idea freshly ripped off Crooks and Liars, here's the Innocence Mission's 1995 breakthrough college hit, "Bright as Yellow."

I was in Taiwan at the time, so I missed the song's emergence, only for it to become one of my favorites a decade later. Better late than never.

Happy When It Rains

I'm back in Ohio for the week, and we appear to be rained out for at least the early half of today. The national weather radar looks like there's a massive, angry fungus swallowing the Midwest, so we might be out of the field for large chunks of the weekend. And god knows how I love sitting around the hotel! Luckily, I've got a foot-high pile of reading material, including several hand-picked graphic novels that Dan lent me a while ago that got caught in the undertow of the renovation and hidden for a while.

Meanwhile, it appears that blogextra.com has been purchased by someone who isn't interested in staying in the blog comments business, so I've switched over to the embedded Blogger comments. I don't know if that means that Blogextra has expunged all past comments, and if they come back online anytime soon, I'll probably switch back. Probably not a breath-holding situation, though.

Fifteen and a Couple

Here's us on GMA once again. Short, compact..., uhm, functional. Enjoy!

Some of the Images You're About to See are Awesome

This alone deserves an Emmy.

On a side note: strangely, "What a to-do to die today" is, for some reason, one of the top searched phrases that leads people to my blog. Anyone know why?

...And We're Back

Yes, the Good Morning America folks are back for another poke around our disaster area tonight in an impromptu show of interest. This bit should be airing either this coming Friday, or the following Friday, depending on whose date book is right.

Oh yes, and GMA also recently hired this guy as a regular commentator. The liberal bias of the Mainstream Media strikes again!