This was my car last week. Pretty ordinary. 1997 Toyota Corolla, blue, not too much rust but very worn, a few dents and dings here and there. I chose it for reliability, not looks, and it's served me well for many years now. 184,000 miles, so far. Last week, Jeff Sonksen put out an offer [...]

The BUY MY STUFF sale continues! I'm cleaning out my shelves, selling excess pop culture oddities to those who love them, and moving toward a drastically less-cluttered life (until I get bored or distracted). Now's your chance to score stuff off me! Currently at eBay: More details on each one here. Good luck! More to [...]

I need money,and I have stuff that needs selling. It's off to eBay! Actually I've already put a lot on eBay, with more to come. Here's what I have available at the moment. – A set of the Serenity Pieceworks cards from Inkworks, each one containing a swath of fabric from actual costumes worn during [...]

Neil Gaiman is, most of the time, my favorite author, running neck and neck with Terry Pratchett, always staying just above a constantly churning scrum of damn-near-favorite authors who move up and down in the rankings as their works come out. Amanda Palmer, his wife, is a punk-cabaret-performance-artist-manic-Goth-ukelele-playing online phenomenon known for, among many other [...]

27 years ago today, a small group of my friends, my family, my soon-to-be in-laws, my fiance, a slightly puzzled reverend, and I gathered together in the Ormond Memorial Art Museum gardens. More specifically we gathered in the gazebo, because it was raining. Teres and I were getting hitched. Also there was our 6-month-old son [...]

Note: for reasons I'm still not sure about, I visited my MySpace blog today and stumbled across the following from December 2007, dusty and faded. I'd hate to think that anything with the potential to embarrass my son* might go unnoticed, so I'm reposting it here. I'm on vacation this week, the better to make [...]