Experiment #2

How many tasks can be accomplished without the subject leaving the toilet seat?
Toothbrushing
Duration: 2 minutes
Notes: Subject had some trouble spitting but the results were satisfactory, black and white cat suffered some collateral damage.
 
Nintendo DS Elite Beat
Duration: 1 1/2 levels
Notes: Subject found it difficult to have true sense of rhythm while bound to the [...]

Love Poem #5

My man is not a psychopath.  I’m completely giddy about this fact.
He doesn’t hide behind trees and jump out at me. He doesn’t cling and ring incessantly. His humour suits me just fine even when it isn’t the same as mine.
Though it drives him nuts, he lets me pull his hair and tickle his feet. [...]

I caught myself daydreaming

I caught myself daydreaming the other day about having a washer and dryer in my rental apartment. 
When I was a kid I used to daydream about being a captain on a space-Zeppelin and being an internationally renowned scuba diver and airplane acrobat.
 
/sigh

Last Will and Testament

Burn me with my combo lock. I’ve had it since grade 7. It’s rusted and cantankerous and makes a particular squeak when I haven’t got the last number just right. Every time I use it I feel fourteen years old again, for all the pimpled bad and scrawny-assed good that life was.
 
That’s my last Will [...]

…Cold Feet, Laundry, Chair Stuffing, Lichen, Viruses–

Lately my mind has been flooded by a series of unrelated mundane things. I’m finding it difficult to concentrate on writing anything.I need to figure out a clever way to tie these things into a story.   … Talking Pee Wee Herman doll, men in sock feet, blurry photographs, broccoli soup, non-decomposing plastic bags.

Two Great Films

I won’t linger too long on the details of what I believe (with my sorry excuse for a degree in film) makes these films excellent (you’re lucky you don’t meet me in person, I do tend to go on). 
Danny Boyle’s film Sunshine:
To me this is classic science fiction, combining a morality tale about humanity and [...]