Why I love my friends

Prince of Darkness

  Early in 2006, Moofruot sent me her sock as per a prior agreement. I’ve mentioned that before. My friends think it’s odd that I carry the sock around in my backpack, but it makes perfect sense to me. I…

Hot, like a bell pepper

Prince of Darkness

“Doctor Doctor Master Albright, my name is—” “Please, please, my friends call me Doctor Master Albright.” Albright interrupted. “Doctor Master—” “It’s actually Doctor Doctor Master.” “But you just said—” “I was making conversation. I was trying to be friendly, but,…

The game’s on you!

Prince of Darkness

It makes me sad that the Daily Show and the Colbert Report are on hiatus until the end of the writer’s strike. I mean, I like writers and I understand their anger against the studios, but damn… why punish Pixel?…

We have ice cream? That’s odd.

We have ice cream? That’s odd… better thaw it out and have some before it realizes we’ve neglected it for months …. oohhhh…. my tummy hurts. Ice cream=bad

I am thankful for… good professors

Prince of Darkness

While applying to graduate school, there’s a lot of stuff to not be thankful for: 1 the cost of official GRE scores, the cost of official transcripts, strenuous studying and worrying about GRE scores, worrying about your vocabulary worrying about…

Waiting indefinitely for applause

Ahhhh…

A conversation I had with my friend Frank. 1: I know what you can do to fix your computer. 2: What? 1: Just get a new motherboard! 2: What? That’s like $800! 1: Yeah, isn’t that a great idea? 2:…

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Ahhhh…

Albright was even giving his toddler-clone an in-depth education. His lessons were progressing nicely: he was nearing Algebra now. “I’m going to skip over dividing by percentages and go right on into factorials. Can you say factorials?” Albright asked. “’Torios!”…

Why do bad sons happen to good mothers?

Ahhhh…

“Listen,” he began in a wooden, rehearsed-sounding tone, “I sympathize with you, I do. My maternal grandmother was 1/16th Arab and she tried to jihad a dozen times before she finally just settled down and married my paternal grandfather. But…

My Lappy Broke :‘( …again

So I don’t break NaBloPoMo… Almost exactly two years ago, I had my laptop break during finals. As you can imagine, it was bad. That post seems eerily appropriate now as my laptop turned off on me and refused to…

I’m glad I have a medium

Genius on paper

The monitor shimmered momentarily. Then, the image changed to a torch-lit scene of brutal riots. Tijuana residents were throwing Molotov cocktails through store windows. There was looting, severe language, beatings, a gang rape of a local TV anchorman and— at…

I am thankful for… projects

Genius on paper

This year I’m doing NaNoWriMo, the project in which you write a novel in one month. I’m also doing NaBloPoMo, the project in which you write one post every day for one month. The problem is that NaNoWriMo is on…