onefinemess | August 19, 2006
Ahhh California. I missed it and I sort of didn’t. My 10 year high school reunion is tonight. Out at some bar in the middle of nowhere in Creston – an interesting choice if I do say so. It will make leaving drunk a challenge – or at least dangerous. Not that I was planning [...]
onefinemess | August 15, 2006
Radio Free Albemuth Published after Dick’s death, I found this a nice kind of endcap for his career. The manuscript for what became RFA was in possession of one of Dick’s friends (Tim Powers I think) and then published after his death for whatever reason. It tailed in nicely what he had been doing with [...]
onefinemess | August 13, 2006
Something within the last few days reminded me of Lyja, the Skrull Alicia Masters impersonator who married the Human Torch under false pretenses (she was a shapechanging imposter, duh!). Her story was actually pretty convoluted (and interesting!) even for a comic book. The original writer of the Masters & Torch marriage intended for them to [...]
onefinemess | August 12, 2006
So I was flipping through the channels the other day when I was home sick and I happened to stumble across something I found amusing. I stopped on a BBC America news show for some reason and they did a brief story on the current Cuba/Fidel thing. Their brief blurb was this: Cuban practioners of [...]
onefinemess | August 12, 2006
First, I plumbed, now I nail. ed. This job is much shoddier than my plumbing job though, which was actually decent. But hopefully it gets the job done. What, or what am I talking about you ask? I put up a (shitty) safety rail on the stairs connecting our attic and main level. Why? Because [...]
onefinemess | August 10, 2006
OK, things will look a little haphazard for a while (ok, forever) while I move 53 pages worth of blogs over from myspace. All posts dated before 08/10/06 are transplanted from myspace. I’m also converting some of them into other formats – separate reviews, whatever, etc. which makes the process take even longer. MARCH!
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