tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3303467325514688512024-02-07T02:59:25.161-08:00Songs of Love, Destruction, and Other Synthetic DelusionsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01029798636741736894noreply@blogger.comBlogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-330346732551468851.post-8767308656026487842014-11-21T18:01:00.000-08:002014-11-21T18:01:22.711-08:00Nix Tempestas Erat Calidus!So two weeks ago I went to Blizzcon 2014. I've been to a few comic conventions, both as a guest and as a visitor, and so while there are obvious differences between comic books and video games I thought I knew what to expect. I didn't.
First things first: Blizzcon 2014 was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed myself. I didn't play a single video game there, but it was still pretty cool. They Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01029798636741736894noreply@blogger.com0Los Angeles, CA, USA34.0522342 -118.243684933.205404200000004 -119.5400714 34.8990642 -116.94729840000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-330346732551468851.post-39824218943145737752014-09-07T16:20:00.000-07:002014-09-07T21:23:23.230-07:00Cara DiariumI've been doing a little fall cleaning on my computer, and found this little piece I wrote a little over twelve years ago. Thought I'd share.
Dear Diary,
I am drowning in a sea of happiness. Oh, I know what that usually
means. Everything is perfect, life couldn’t be more wonderful, all
that shit. But drowning in anything is hardly a pleasant situation,
and the environment you are Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01029798636741736894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-330346732551468851.post-13167365123221295612014-08-12T18:07:00.000-07:002014-08-12T18:07:43.029-07:00Pignus FidelitatisI pledge allegiance to the brag of
the United States of America
and to the oligarchy for which it stands.
One nation, under fraud,
divisible by race, gender, religion, and sexual orientation
With liberty and justice for those who can afford it.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01029798636741736894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-330346732551468851.post-33700775196826842292014-05-23T14:48:00.000-07:002014-05-23T14:48:58.631-07:00Quae PutidiusculumMeanwhile, 5 months later...
A lot's been happening, and I haven't been able to adjust my habits to include blogging very much. Apologies.
But the good news is I've still been writing! "in Sanity, AZ" has been on shelves for a little over half a year and the response so far has been very positive. Thanks to everyone who's picked that up, I'm really proud of it. (And if you haven't picked up a Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01029798636741736894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-330346732551468851.post-31496537973064184012014-01-11T11:58:00.000-08:002014-01-11T11:58:20.754-08:00Mutare Tu Mente II: Units of HeatGreetings! I hope everyone has been having a lovely start to the year.
In my previous blog, I talked a little bit about a little bit about those common New Year's resolutions to "lose weight" and "get in shape" - two rather vague terms that don't (in my mind) properly define the goals you may be trying to accomplish.
For instance, "losing" generally has a negative connotation. You lost the game.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01029798636741736894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-330346732551468851.post-81444903965068625652013-12-24T12:38:00.000-08:002013-12-24T12:38:31.426-08:00Mutare Tu Mente I: Reconstitute!Anyone who's known me for a significant length of time knows that I don't do New Year's resolutions. Instead I go on either a 2-week or 1-month detox from all the lovely vices that for the most part aren't too terrible as long as they are not abused: No alcohol, no caffeine, no smoking (though that last one gets easier and easier to stop for far longer). Woof.
This new year though, a couple Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01029798636741736894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-330346732551468851.post-82527918906014081142013-10-26T11:45:00.001-07:002013-10-26T11:45:57.008-07:00Cor Tuum Enim Bono*credit for the following bean recipe goes to The Pioneer Woman.
About a week ago, I looked in my freezer and saw a large pork tenderloin that desperately needed to be cooked. So the other day I thawed it out and thought, What the hell, and decided to brine the pork.
Brining is a cooking technique similar to marinating, where you soak your meat (or vegetables) for a long period of time in a Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01029798636741736894noreply@blogger.com0Orange County, CA, USA33.7174708 -117.8311428000000132.8717023 -119.1220363 34.5632393 -116.54024930000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-330346732551468851.post-24878826772078669722013-10-16T14:22:00.001-07:002013-10-16T14:22:24.538-07:00Amoris Medicum: Bibunt Biberunt BibebantOh dear... Slate.com is an online news source that generally puts out really good, interesting articles. But today on their splash page was a link to this article with the tagline: "Being Drunk Puts Women At Higher Risk of Rape. Why Will No One Tell Them To Stop Getting Wasted?"
The article, by Emily Yoffe, seems at first glance to offer good counsel.
We are failing to let women know that whenAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01029798636741736894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-330346732551468851.post-51460043239762689092013-10-13T16:38:00.001-07:002013-10-13T16:38:45.171-07:00Nullam InfernusOh my goodness, have there been things to rant about! The government shutdown is the big one, obviously. I try to follow the developments (such as they are) as best I can, and nearly every day I think, Oh, I should blog about that. I've been feeling guilty about not updating as much as I should, and I got stuff I'd like to write about. Part of the blame can be laid on my schedule. I've Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01029798636741736894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-330346732551468851.post-18311611630929123182013-08-22T15:09:00.000-07:002013-08-22T15:26:08.414-07:00Memorias II
The Time I Had Appendicitis
Every now and again, if I've been doing lots of walking or lifting, of if the weather is just right, I'll get an awful pain in my left hip. It's usually bad enough during those times that I'll walk with a pronounced limp.
"Why are you limping?" someone may ask.
"I tore my hip flexor back in high school, and it acts up sometimes," I'll say.
They wince. "Ouch. How'd youAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01029798636741736894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-330346732551468851.post-59529806521948926322013-08-14T14:08:00.001-07:002013-08-14T14:08:07.883-07:00Veritas Metaphorae I: The One About FishingOn a bright, sunny day I sat by a lake and dangled my feet in the water. I was leaning back on my elbows, my face was raised to the sky, my eyes were closed, and a smile had snuck onto my mouth. I was taking a break from fishing, and enjoying the way the sun would heat the skin on my face until a cloud passed over, and the cooler shadow would make my skin tingle.
My fishing pole lay at my side, Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01029798636741736894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-330346732551468851.post-32325082482083155082013-07-29T18:08:00.001-07:002013-07-30T12:11:05.080-07:00Memorias I
That One Time I Was Gay
God, I love the digital keyboard! Edits are easy, mistakes fixed with a copy taps of the backspace key or highlighted with a mouse and changed. When I'm writing, my mind moves way faster than my hands, and I'll go back and reread things I wrote and realize I left out letters or even words. With a keyboard, fixing those little oversights is easy. Which why I prefer it so Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01029798636741736894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-330346732551468851.post-23275208986230890972013-07-22T16:09:00.000-07:002013-07-22T16:17:29.702-07:00Oculus de AcuIn 1795, President George Washington ordered Ambassador David Humphreys to negotiate a treaty with the Muslim states along the Barbary Coast, who for the past three centuries had raided the seas as privateers. In 1797, under John Adams' presidency, the Treaty of Tripoli was unanimously ratified by the Senate. Article 11 of the Treaty that was ratified states,
“As the government of the United Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01029798636741736894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-330346732551468851.post-84299818228214317452013-06-27T10:34:00.000-07:002013-06-27T10:34:33.723-07:00Interserere Faciem ad PalmisMethinks Texas is not thinking this one through. After one hell of a filibuster by Wendy Davis earlier this week, Governor Dick Perry (yeah, the one with the hunting ranch called "Niggerhead") announced a special session called next week to pass SB5, an overhaul on abortion law which would ban all abortions after 20 weeks and close 90% of women's health clinics, effectively eliminating women's Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01029798636741736894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-330346732551468851.post-32787883876480611992013-06-20T11:41:00.000-07:002013-06-20T11:43:57.416-07:00Amoris Medicum II - Guides to DatingWell, it was bound to happen sooner or later. Someone is using crowd-sourcing to fund a book that is fairly reprehensible. My facebook feed has blown up (hyperbole, don't worry) with people expressing their distaste over this use of the crowd-sourcing site, asking me sign petitions (I did), and generally having the sort of conversations on social media that we're supposed to be having on social Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01029798636741736894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-330346732551468851.post-40207938665862725942013-06-17T17:29:00.000-07:002013-06-17T17:29:03.291-07:00De Mendacio
The
Lie
My
breath forms mist in the air when I exhale
The
mist becomes a dew when it hits her cheek
As we lie
in a tangled embrace
The
dew becomes tears on her face when she exhales
The
tears fall off her chin to feed a pool of sorrow beneath us
As we lie
in a tangled embrace
The
pool overflows Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01029798636741736894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-330346732551468851.post-82591856390157838452013-05-03T15:43:00.000-07:002013-05-03T15:43:43.816-07:00Parsimonia EssentialiumThis is how an economy works:
Let's say you make a product, and it costs you $5 to make this product and it takes 1 hour to make it. Now when you sell product, you want to be able to cover the cost of production, right? So you don't want to sell the product for $4, because you'll quickly run out of funds to be able to make your product. What would be great is if you could sell it for $10, so youAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01029798636741736894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-330346732551468851.post-87050147242468988252013-04-04T16:30:00.000-07:002013-04-04T16:30:15.694-07:00Amoris Medicum IA friend posted a link on facebook: "100 Ways to Flirt With Guys". Number 92 says, "Flirt with someone at a bookstore by slapping the book out of their hands and whispering 'books are word prisons!' Then karate chop the air and saunter away." While I agreed with a couple other friends that this method would totally work on me, it's fairly clear that this is a joke post making fun of the teen girlAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01029798636741736894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-330346732551468851.post-69489284833958932182013-03-15T17:13:00.001-07:002013-03-15T17:13:35.286-07:00Cogitata Magnus et PotensSo Oz the Great and Powerful, eh? It's been getting some incredibly mixed reviews, including some that are downright loathing. One review in particular, though, had me scratching my head. (Oh, and by the way, I'll be talking spoilers, but since it's a prequel to the incredibly famous 1939 film if you have a problem get over it.)
A friend linked the review on facebook from Jezebel, an e-magazine Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01029798636741736894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-330346732551468851.post-29407309699201411482013-01-23T15:13:00.000-08:002013-01-23T15:13:32.337-08:00Solummodo Rerum. Et logica.Well the gun-control debate has been spiraling into the same mess of soundbites and memes as any other political discussion. Now there's a growing discussion that the Sandy Hook massacre is a hoax, and meanwhile everyone is trying to find statistics that support their point of view. Such as the FBI report that violent crime decrease in 2011 by almost 4%, following a five year trend demonstrated Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01029798636741736894noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-330346732551468851.post-41583767390650276822013-01-11T13:43:00.001-08:002013-01-11T13:43:16.225-08:00Et Scripsi Super MurusIt's 2013! Wow, time is flying. A lot's been going on, and there's a lot still to come.
Before we get too crazy about things to come though, I wanted to share about what's going on.
#1. Rue
Rue is a stand-alone graphic novel I co-wrote with Marcel Losada, James Ninness, and Joe Pezzula. This book originally came about because we wanted to have something to showcase our work at conventions. WeAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01029798636741736894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-330346732551468851.post-53226558680653106342012-12-14T15:36:00.000-08:002012-12-14T15:36:48.483-08:00Liberos Vivere Nec Mori DurumOn Tuesday, December 11th, 2012, a gunman walks into a mall in Oregon and opened fire with an AR-15 semiautomatic weapon. That same evening at California State University in Fullerton, SWAT teams shut down campus as they look for other gunmen involved in an armed robbery in Moreno Valley.
Today, I walked out of a morning viewing of The Hobbit and find out that a gunman killed some 26 people at anAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01029798636741736894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-330346732551468851.post-2978766144712608182012-07-29T10:49:00.000-07:002012-07-29T11:15:09.186-07:00Telam DebitumThe concept of money is a bit strange. So strange, in fact, that most people don't try to understand what it is. I mean why bother? As long as your money rests safely in a bank and you can draw on it when you need to, what's to understand?
Well, the first thing needed to be understood is that your money is not like Harry Potter's stash of gold at Gringotts. You can't just walk into a bank and Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01029798636741736894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-330346732551468851.post-60420417505760224492012-06-23T14:50:00.000-07:002012-06-23T14:50:29.403-07:00Gentes TestimoniumSo on facebook one of the alumni from my high school started an event that was basically a high school reunion for the people that managed to get out of high school and still be a human being. That may sound like a weird statement to make, but then you probably didn't go to my high school. It's an uber-conservative, fundamentalist Christian, private education school tied directly to the church itAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01029798636741736894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-330346732551468851.post-52940417707512812042012-06-15T12:38:00.000-07:002012-06-15T12:39:12.082-07:00Úvahy o PrahaThe last time I went to Europe I was too young to appreciate it, and really it was so long ago I barely remember most of it. I'm not so sure it was a sign of how I've grown when one of my first thoughts upon seeing Prague is, "This city has tons of Vantage Points!"
Once a nerd, always a nerd, I guess. The thought never really left me, but luckily I was drawn into the history, culture, and lifeAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01029798636741736894noreply@blogger.com0