Posted in Uncategorized on February 14, 2008 | No Comments »
The awards are up and you can feast your squinties on the final selections in each category over here. I am not surprised by one of the winners, happily surprised by two others, and look forward to checking into the rest.
My discussion of the graphic novels category may or may not appear in this [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on January 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
That’s my grand and insightful conclusion after staying up late in the lounge with a bunch of my fellow campers until just after midnight. Well, midnight was the goal but somehow we all kept at it until after 1 AM. Okay, so i was closer to 2 AM. And who could sleep? Not me, not [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on December 23, 2007 | No Comments »
We come to the end of the year and find ourselves taking stock. Family, friends and holiday bring us together, the coming new year allows us to consider the future, goals, resolutions.
Though the calendar date is an artificial reference point we look back at what was, finding it difficult to have predicted the year that [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on September 3, 2007 | No Comments »
I had just graduated from college and panicked: I hadn’t lined up a job, didn’t have any leads in my field, and was absolutely clueless. My girlfriend (later my first wife) and I weren’t on speaking terms (a sign I chose to ignore) and I was couch surfing with friends until I could find [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on August 30, 2007 | No Comments »
A couple decades ago (and it’s weird to think of it in those terms) I had to write a personal essay to get into college. By the time I was at the personal essay stage I was several months behind my friends who had already sent out their college admission materials. College was [...]
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