http://emoglasses.org a bully pulpit, updated whenever Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:20:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Spring is in the air! Maybe not in Spokane, but I hear the weather is nicer in the non-hinterland parts of the country. As it gets warmer, if you're like me you become more & more drawn to long walks and relaxing drives on scenic highways. And what better to ... http://emoglasses.org/2008/04/24/podcasts-worth-listening-to/ Wizard rock is in the air. No less than two documentaries featuring the Harry Potter music subculture have premiered in the last month: We Are Wizards (which focuses on multiple realms of Potter fandom) and The Wizard Rockumentary: A Movie About Rocking and Rowling. To my knowledge, The Wizard Rockumentary ... http://emoglasses.org/2008/04/15/the-wizard-rockumentary-a-movie-about-rocking-and-rowling/ I made my first significant edit to a Wikipedia page today, for which I actually made a user account, and let me tell you: if you think the rabbit-trailing is bad for a reader on the regular side, you have no idea. Someday, someone is going to write a very ... http://emoglasses.org/2008/04/12/untapped/ Your patience will soon be rewarded. I believe I have managed to strike the appropriate balance between this place and others. All it needed was a little crop rotation. Or it might be more like a screen door... http://emoglasses.org/2008/04/11/keep-cool-my-babies-2/ Stupid? Probably. Hilarious? Most definitely. http://emoglasses.org/2007/10/16/people-getting-punched-just-before-eating/ I've had some time to think about a few of the things I like recently. I'm not sure when the concept coalesced in my brain, but a lot of my interests can be explained by a love for invented ecologies. I think that area -- the invented ecology -- best captures ... http://emoglasses.org/2007/09/18/i-like-a-pretend-world-that-hangs-together/ Typical question when searching for a lost item, regarding its possible location, spoken aloud to self: You're not that dumb. Typical answer when object is found (unspoken):Yes, you are. http://emoglasses.org/2007/08/23/yes-you-are/ I just had a little epiphany. So The Simpsons Movie was good and all, but good enough to buy when it comes out... maybe. However, I've been watching the commentaries for some episodes from season 7 of the show, and realized that whatever commentary (or commentaries!) they throw together for ... http://emoglasses.org/2007/08/19/an-epiphany-2/ The answer is, watch a hell of a lot of movies. Apparently. I've had a reviews tab going since last August around this same time, which is shocking. I've been far more consistent and thorough about maintaining my movie scores than I have been about anything else of mine on the ... http://emoglasses.org/2007/08/19/if-you-ever-wonder-what-i-do/ So this is crazy: according to my TiVo, Evan Almighty is airing on basic cable on August 10. Already? That movie just came out! Like, barely a month and a half ago! I knew it tanked hard, but not so hard that the powers-that-be are trying to recoup some of ... http://emoglasses.org/2007/08/01/poor-steve-carrell/