♦ Colleen and I have pretty much the perfect geek date lined up for next month – Jonathan Coulton, with Paul and Storm, at The Birchmere! So, uh, yay for us! ♦ More reasons I like the new President, both real and not so real…. …Though I have to say, Obama’s on the wrong side […]

While doing the last of my Christmas shopping the other week (specifically, while picking up a copy of “How to Be A Domestic Goddess” by Nigella Lawson for Colleen), I ended up with a good Borders coupon. So, today we ventured out to to the one Borders books in the Richmond area (via a roundabout […]

Seeing as this was one of the least eventful weeks in recent memory, but in order to avoid this site from turning into nothing but a succession of “random ten” entries, I’m going to just play stream of consciousness and toss some random observations and links out into the aether for anyone who’s interested…. ♦If […]

We woke early this morning (even earlier than I wanted to, thanks to Catherine) to trek up to DC for the National Book Festival on the Mall in D.C., most specifically, to catch a reading and signing by one of our favorite authors, Neil Gaiman, who was just one of a ton of authors out […]

Exaggerated…but only slightly. No, I haven’t pulled a McCain and suspended all activities to duck out on the debate deal with the financial crisis; I merely got really, really, seriously, knocking on Death’s door sick with some evil flu-like virus this week. From Monday evening to Wednesday lunchtime, I think I was awake for maybe […]

After a day a somewhat better day at the office (one particular hour notwithstanding), this evening was actually really quite enjoyable. I took a nice evening walk through the neighborhood, stopping first at the local Olssons bookstore to browse the shelves and bullshit a little bit with the geeky, funky staff, who are always good […]

for free! For the next month or so, Neil Gaiman’s American Gods is available for free online at the link you read past eleven words ago. It’s really quite a good book (as is pretty much everything Neil writes, so give it a read, if you feel moved. It’s really worth it, if you can […]

Today was another fine Sunday afternoon at the Central Virginia Comicon for Mary and I; poring through the fifty-cent longboxes for forgotten treasures worthy of an eight year old girl’s attention. This time, a bunch of Byrne She-Hulk (well, those were just as much for me, being the Jen Walters geek I am – thanks, […]

Going back to that post a while back about that study that says people don’t read any more, I wanted to see exactly how much I read, in some quanitifiable form. The first step was adding that “number of books read” count over to the left. The second, was to add a new page, where […]

Writer Steve Gerber died yesterday. A lot of you reading this site probably have no idea who I’m talking about, but this guy’s work has brought me a lot of entertainment over the years. Probably more than anyone, it was Gerber who shaped the aesthetic of the “back bench” of Marvel Comics in the 1970s; […]