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Science Fiction Double Feature

Neither of these can really considered “Science Fiction”, but they were a double-feature nonetheless. A few weeks ago, some friends and I drove up to Warwick, New York for our annual drive-in trip. Unfortunately we did not plan this trip well around the new releases, but our impossible schedules. Just when we thought that weContinue reading “Science Fiction Double Feature”

Saturday in the City

This weekend, I took a trip into New York City. I take for granted the fact that I can take a train for reasonably cheaply into New York and be swimming in a variety of exhibits, sights, and sounds. With summer class over, I said enough was enough on Saturday and took the train to,Continue reading “Saturday in the City”

August Rising

source listening :: I’ll Get By and The Moth Radio Hour – A View of the Earth (so beautiful); watching :: Won’t Back Down; reading ::The Night Circus, and Locke & Key; wanting :: New running shoes; working :: Job applications; writing :: Nothing! Survived my first and last summer session!; thinking :: New York City tomorrow, switching out of creativeContinue reading “August Rising”

Cold Snap

Throwback from the spring semester – the doctoral students are weird. listening :: Welcome to Night Vale and Enter Shikari ; watching :: Funny You Should Ask and maybe Pacific Rim at the drive-in this weekend; reading :: Wide Sargasso Sea, The Night Circus, and Lucifer (a spin-off of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman); wanting :: A lobsterContinue reading “Cold Snap”

2013 Eisner Award Winners

2013 Eisner Award Winners San Diego Comic Con is this weekend and that can mean only one thing! (Well, actually many things…) When the nominations were posted earlier this year, I posted a list of my hopefuls. 8 winners out of 11 isn’t too shabby, and good job Saga for cleaning house!

A new

listening :: Rooster Teeth podcasts and a lot of Pink Floyd; watching :: Prefontaine (Cried my eyes out) and Spirit of the Marathon; reading :: Homeward Bound, Torch, and The Ocean at the End of the Lane (I am close to meeting my yearly reading goal); wanting :: Summer class to be over, and a pita sandwich; working :: On grant research and jobContinue reading “A new”

Hello, Mr. G

“Hello, Casey.” “Hello, Mr. G—“ At least once a week, for the year that I was at that library, I would exchange only those words with this one patron. He would take up all of the tables in the genealogy and local history section with various Sanborn maps and indexes. It was understand within theContinue reading “Hello, Mr. G”

Dewey or Die

I AM THE GREETEST from Daniel Angri on Vimeo. listening :: I AM THE GREETEST (Because I am a rat); watching :: Above, Prefontaine and Spirit of the Marathon ; reading :: Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed and Deadeye Dick; wanting :: Tacos, new shoes, and a trip; working :: The mock grant proposal, video cassette withdrawals, birthdayContinue reading “Dewey or Die”

Knee High By The Fourth Of July

listening :: Talon of the Hawk 24-7; watching :: Perks of Being a Wallflower after work; reading :: Winger, Underwater Welder, and Hawkeye: My Life as a Weapon; wanting :: A huge bacon cheeseburger and a drink, febreze, Google Reader to return, and naptime; working :: On Grants homework; writing :: nothing recreational; thinking :: WhatContinue reading “Knee High By The Fourth Of July”

A way to go

listening :: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim on cassette and the above; watching :: Seasons of Grimm and some Murray at Wimbledon; reading :: Still Points North and other summer reading program books ; wanting :: To be at Annual, but looking forward to some transmissions from the conference, and lemonade; working :: On Grants homeworkContinue reading “A way to go”