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Alternity's/Star*Drive's grid is in its infancy.

So . . . cool!

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OK, here's the thing.

Mike wants to do our Christmas tree Friday. He says it's ok if people come over (actually, he said "it might be fun to get people together and make cookies and decorate the tree"), so if you want to, you can. But if not, that's cool. It's not any kind of official party/invite.

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OK, so I despise Harry Knowles' Ain't It Cool News Site. Partially because I hate his formatting, partially because I think he's basically a jumped-up fanboy with delusions that he's a serious newsman, and partially because he posts any random rumor he hears, and I spend far too much time debunking things he's posted. This quote from an Englishman's review of Harry's book sums it up:

Ever visted the website of Ain't It Cool? Well if ever there was a misnomer, it was the title of that website because frankly, no it's not. And now we have a book to accompany the grotty world of Knowles. The writing (and I use that word advisedly) is terrible. If ever there was a man who is so in love with himself, so blinded by his own press, so clearly taking bribes and kick-backs, so hell bent on tearing down any movie ever made that doesn't give him a bribe or kick back, it's Harry Knowles. To read his book you'd think he was some kind of folk hero. Newsflash, the man is a joke and so is his nasty, bile inducing website. Pack up and go home. You're an embarrassment to humanity.

HOWEVER, I could not resist reading some advance stuff on The Two Towers which Google linked me to on his site. Check this out, submitted by a reader to the site after an MTV preview:

. Orcs on wolves battling our heroes, marsh graveyards with evil ghosts, Wormtongue and the sickened king, the ENTS revenge on Isengard, The Black Riders on flying horses...the Nazgul! Breathtaking. This is still an image I cannot get out of my head...Flying Nazgul....scary as hell, visually amazing stuff. The whole movie has this mood of forboding doom.

ONLY TWO WEEKS!!!!

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Steve, a sort-of compadre (meaning he's an actual teacher while I'm still three years away from a classroom and he's YOUNGER THAN ME BY SEVERAL YEARS!!! ARGHWHATHAVEIDONEWITHMYLIFEWHYDIDI--AHEM!! Sorry about that) up in Canada (lucky bastich), had this to say about relationships in a comment on Ernie's page. I thought it was incredibly eloquent and since it rings with Truth, I thought I'd show it to you, my droogie brothers. The emphasis is mine.

. . . the knight in shining armour is only shiny for the first couple of years. Trust me. After five years, my relationship's all about the sitting around watching TV, being comfortable enough to belch in each other's presence and having somebody to snuggle at night. It's no romance novel, but it's beautiful and it's life.

Enjoy what you have as long as you have it. Agonizing over the future's a pointless endeavour. Savour the now. Be happy :)

A snippet of History

I dug these out on November 26, my father's birthday. I have some concerns that this may be incredibly odd of me, but I'm posting it here because it is as close as any of my friends will come to knowing my father. Hell, it's as close as I can come.

These letters were written by my father to my mother from Atascadero Prison. He wrote them just a month before her death in 1976. Other than some pictures, his sax, and his trumpet, this is all I have left of him, the only clue to his personality.

I've retained any errors he made.

( Cut so those who aren't interested can skip by with impunity. I won't mind, really. )