Daydream Believer

OK, where are my Academy Awards?  You know the ones I mean – where everything is red and gold and glam, where I laugh, cry and exclaim, “Grant, we have to see that movie!” Where I glue myself to the speeches from beginning to end and just soak in the elegance? WHERE DID THEY GO?
As [...]

Books printed before 1985 might contain lead.  That does not surprise me.  So now the U.S. government wants to ban the distribution of any pre-1985 book just in case it’s harmful.  That, also, does not surprise me.  Because it’s idiotic.   Especially because you’d have to actually eat the books to even run the risk of [...]

This weekend is the annual meeting for the American Association for the Advancement of Science. It’s in Chicago, so naturally I am in attendance. Fortunately for me, my work with AWIS qualifies me as a member of the press, and thus I attend for free.  Its basically a chance to listen to scientists [...]

OK, this is fantastic.  This kid is still on his meds after undergoing oral surgery.  I love the moment when he looks about to say something profound, and then he pauses, and says, “I have two fingers.”

The downside of living inside your own life 100 percent of the time is the fact that you forget that everyone else around you is facing the same kind of bullshit that you are.
The theme of this post is Angst.
I don’t know when everyone suddenly got so emo, myself included. I think maybe it [...]