http://www.strangeradiation.com/blog/ Adventures with an unreliable narrator. en-us mt-notification@strangeradiation.com 2008-04-27T12:54:37-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.strangeradiation.com/blog/archive/000715.shtml I had a dreadful beard-trimming accident this morning, and as a result I have a better idea of what my chin looks like today than I have had for -- what, a couple years at least. It's very short. The... 715@http://www.strangeradiation.com/blog/ 2008-04-27T12:54:37-05:00 http://www.strangeradiation.com/blog/archive/000714.shtml If you don't get this, well, you won't get this. But if you do: Well. It is -- how you say? Bwah. (Ten thousand thanks to stealthmuffin.)... 714@http://www.strangeradiation.com/blog/ 2008-04-25T01:52:10-05:00 http://www.strangeradiation.com/blog/archive/000713.shtml Dear self: That was fun, again. Here, in no particular order, are some songs from Greg's repertoire for which I think it's time to start learning the words -- no, I mean really learn the words, so they can be... 713@http://www.strangeradiation.com/blog/ 2008-04-20T13:12:28-05:00 http://www.strangeradiation.com/blog/archive/000712.shtml For those who need a break from whatever they're doing: an exercise in lateral thinking, best undertaken in short bursts: Funny Farm. Here's what you need to know: it's a concept map. Start with the kicker on the first square:... 712@http://www.strangeradiation.com/blog/ 2008-04-16T17:44:11-05:00 http://www.strangeradiation.com/blog/archive/000711.shtml I saw the [-Clark Gable]-Cary Grant1-Rosalind Russell screwball classic His Girl Friday last night for the first time, in the company of a friend who has been after me for months that my old-movie exposure is so low as to... 711@http://www.strangeradiation.com/blog/ 2008-04-07T13:50:19-05:00 http://www.strangeradiation.com/blog/archive/000709.shtml Things that you may find the new B-52s1 album reminiscent of, at random points: Dieter from Sprockets Various fabulous moments from Wild Planet Dr. Seuss on some unidentified (but probably illegal) psychoactive chemical Some sort of perverse let's-torture-Babelfish experiment Various... 709@http://www.strangeradiation.com/blog/ 2008-03-29T04:10:23-05:00 http://www.strangeradiation.com/blog/archive/000708.shtml I had yesterday off and as a result didn't realize it was St. Patrick's Day until about 2:30 in the afternoon, because I spent the morning stretched out and watching Doctor Who episodes.1 I missed the parade. I missed the... 708@http://www.strangeradiation.com/blog/ 2008-03-18T14:08:28-05:00 http://www.strangeradiation.com/blog/archive/000707.shtml It's winter at last in NYC: real winter, not merely cold. There's snow! And horrible puddles of gray slish in the gutters! And everything! So the weeks of hat hair we've all had to endure, and the new boots we... 707@http://www.strangeradiation.com/blog/ 2008-02-23T17:47:02-05:00 http://www.strangeradiation.com/blog/archive/000706.shtml Hokey smokes, what a long week that was. Am now in Boston for Boskone. Busted my ass to make a deadline today, dashed to the train, discovered that I had somehow screwed up my Amtrak tickets and that as a... 706@http://www.strangeradiation.com/blog/ 2008-02-16T02:13:16-05:00 http://www.strangeradiation.com/blog/archive/000704.shtml It appears I have just made hotel and con reservations for Boskone. Cool! For my next trick: travel from NYC to Boston for the con. I will be going up either as late as I can reasonably manage on a... 704@http://www.strangeradiation.com/blog/ 2008-01-31T15:01:48-05:00 http://www.strangeradiation.com/blog/archive/000703.shtml She answers the telephone. He goes to college despite his parents' pleas. They eat the steak. You open the envelope. You wear the shirt anyway. He cooks dinner for her at home. She goes into the dining room. They leave... 703@http://www.strangeradiation.com/blog/ 2008-01-29T23:24:49-05:00 http://www.strangeradiation.com/blog/archive/000701.shtml Where does the time go? You blink and suddenly there's a whole new year going on and the index page on your blog has gone horrifyingly blank and your friends are worried you're dead or something. Not much to report,... 701@http://www.strangeradiation.com/blog/ 2008-01-28T16:01:09-05:00 http://www.strangeradiation.com/blog/archive/000699.shtml I have had a couple of movie dates recently. Yes, they were very nice, thank you. One of the films was Enchanted, which is a great date movie, funny and sweet and not particularly taxing and full of great New... 699@http://www.strangeradiation.com/blog/ the avenging virgo 2007-12-27T01:19:35-05:00 http://www.strangeradiation.com/blog/archive/000698.shtml Two things in The New York Times almost made me cry on the train this evening: first, the idea that there's an immigrant kid at a school in Decatur, Georgia named Bill Clinton -- because this story about educating the... 698@http://www.strangeradiation.com/blog/ 2007-12-26T01:29:18-05:00 http://www.strangeradiation.com/blog/archive/000697.shtml Or maybe not. Last night's enthusiasm was unwarranted: it was ultimately more shiny, risk-free, pointless worldbuilding. Right now I'm not sure why I do this at all.... 697@http://www.strangeradiation.com/blog/ 2007-12-16T16:26:04-05:00