What. A. Day. First of all: you asked for a donation button. Why, I’m happy to help; I’ve set it up with PayPal, and as I might expect, it doesn’t work. Yet. Some sort of verification needs to occur. When the bytes move through the digestive system and cough up useable code, I’ll slap it [...]

There’s a vase with a flower in a niche on the bathroom wall. Or rather there was. Spun around this morning getting out of the shower, the robe caught the flower, the vase went down. Glass everywhere in the room of bare feet. I thought: the day’s either off to a horrible start, or this [...]

The job has become consumed by preparations for the Star Wars Holiday Special, as I’m calling it. We’re shooting a big show at the Mall of America next Monday – stop on by, say hello, throw tomatoes – and we have a pre-taped hardy-har segment on Thursday, and a music show to shoot tomorrow. The [...]

Allow me some parental pride:

She whipped this up after school. Drew the cat first – which she doesn’t like much, she said – then did the lyrics from some song the kids like on their Warrior Cats tribute videos. “Did I teach you how to put layers under other layers?”
She grinned. “No.” She’s proud [...]

Many years ago, in the Mayan capital: a wealthy man is surveying his room of slave-scribes, all of whom have been calculating the calendar into the future. They have no idea why they have been set to this task, but their lot is not to question. It is tedious work, but full of mysteries; no [...]

Ersatz anchormannery, empty violence, cheap emotion: another day. The first was the workaday part, and it was fun. Love my job, as I keep saying. Would like to keep my job, too; we’re having more cutbacks. Went into the boss’s office this morning, said I was just there to see my manager squirm trying to [...]

What I remember the most about the Teletubbies is wondering when the next attack would come. Natalie was a little over a year, and was temporarily interested in those ghastly creatures around the weeks after 9/11; I found it all creepy and a bit depressing, an artifact of the happy shiny world that was now [...]

Today: the usual package reviews, the usual customer-service exchange, a sick child, and some videos. Let’s begin:
Put up more lights on Sunday. Got out all the lights from last year, straightened them out, tested them, set aside the dead ones, plugged them in, and started the merry job of putting them on the tall [...]

Flotsam and jetsam today; big work night and even more to come tomorrow. I’d feel guilty about this if I was running a pay site, AND there wasn’t an enormous update over in Black and White World that features some of the wildest, most striking sets in any movie, ever – let alone a small [...]

This was a stem-to-stern, rock ‘em / sock ‘em day. Here’s an example, ripped from the breathless annals of daily life: I’m tweeting something terribly important on my iPhone, standing outside, enjoying a tiny stub of a post-lunch cigar, and no matter how many times I backspace, I cannot delete a period. I figure something [...]