The Tree of Indeterminable Dialogue

bigboots @ 2009-05-20T13:33:00

2009-05-20T20:46:07Z

Thanks to a very generous co-worker, I have 2 100-level tickets to the Mariners game tomorrow night. I tried to ask this girl who works at a coffee shop by my apartment to go (aw yeah!) but got shut down before I even got that far (fuck!). So anyway, I have one good ticket to the game available (section 109). I'm not a baseball fan, nor do I know much about the sport (if the short-stop goes outside the baselines, he is offsides? I can never remember), but I'm going anyway on the theory that sometimes it's cool to have a really good view of something that you're apathetic towards. Anyone in the Seattle-area interested?

I believe they're playing the Lakers.

The funniest sketch

2009-05-01T23:26:13Z

bigboots @ 2009-04-02T01:02:00

2009-04-02T08:03:52Z

Apparently this is real.

I'm dumbfounded.

10,000 Drunken iPhone Photos of Thao

2008-12-14T10:02:32Z

here

One of those adjectives is false. Hopefully the other two excuse the quality.

Mad, mad, mad world

2008-01-26T21:45:39Z

"The agency rejected the network's argument that 'the buttocks are not a sexual organ.'"

bigboots @ 2008-01-13T05:05:00

2008-01-13T13:06:37Z

Way better than New Voyages

bigboots @ 2007-10-23T23:20:00

2007-10-24T06:21:09Z

Rarrgh!

bigboots @ 2007-01-03T10:35:00

2007-01-03T18:36:34Z

"The Lord didn't say nuclear. But I do believe it will be something like that."

bigboots @ 2006-08-02T20:41:00

2006-08-03T03:42:59Z

Tonight I went for a walk and walked past two little girls hammering on pieces of wood in a driveway.

"Wooden people first!" shouted one.

"It's a philosopheeeeeee!" cried the other.

bigboots @ 2006-07-28T19:58:00

2006-07-29T02:59:18Z

Damn straight! I miss Strega.

bigboots @ 2006-07-13T21:13:00

2006-07-14T04:15:32Z

Hey vampireelf, you're famous! If being in a few pictures posted on the blog of a moderately (though increasingly) successful fantasy writer counts as fame, that is. Also, he totally name checks you, sort of.

bigboots @ 2006-07-12T19:15:00

2006-07-13T02:18:06Z

On my way home today a guy standing in a bus shelter asked me, "Do you have a dime?"

"Sure," I said, and proceeded to root around in my wallet for one. I found it and deposited it in his hand.

"No," he said, "do you have the time? But the dime works too." He put it in his wallet. I gave him the time and walked on.

And that's the story of how I gave away a dime for no reason.

It's an epic

2006-06-23T18:12:51Z

I don't need to bother reading the Harry Potter books because nothing in them could possibly rival the the shit that goes down in fandom.

bigboots @ 2006-06-14T20:42:00

2006-06-15T03:45:28Z

I spaced out and actually replied to Marc's meme, and the rules dictate that I must now post it here.

Anyway, describe me using only one word if you feel the urge.

bigboots @ 2006-06-07T23:59:00

2006-06-08T07:00:54Z

Lewis Black:

I mean, writing isn't fun. It's never been fun. It's momentum, and once you get the momentum going, that's great, but it's a brutal experience in many, many ways. And when you're done, people tell you "Well, gee, I'm not interested." "Great, I'm glad I sat down and wrote this!"

I couldn't agree more.

bigboots @ 2006-06-05T19:35:00

2006-06-06T02:36:02Z

"The specter of necessity"?

I hate myself so much right now.

bigboots @ 2006-06-05T19:22:00

2006-06-06T02:25:41Z

I tried to write my paper earlier, and I was so sleepy I almost fell asleep in my chair. So then I drank a Starbucks Doubleshot and suddenly couldn't sit still long enough to compose a sentence. I went for a walk instead, which was nice. The weather's finally bearable; the sun's out and the humidity dropped to the point where you can walk more than a block without drenching yourself in sweat.

However--I'm still sitting at 1300 of 4500 words on a paper for which I haven't even done enough reading, and now I'm an hour more screwed than I was when I set out on that walk.

I'm just glad this weekend's going to kick so very much ass.

bigboots @ 2006-06-02T15:48:00

2006-06-02T22:49:57Z

Aw, fuck:

I regret to inform you that due to circumstances beyond our control, we have had to cancel the summer ENG 418 (31416) you are enrolled in. I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you. If you were taking this course as a requirement to fulfill your major, please contact Dr. Marc Geisler, Marc.Geisler@wwu.edu, for advisement as soon as possible. As the new Chair of the English department, Dr. Geisler will be advising this summer and can approve requirement substitution arrangements.

If you plan to graduate summer quarter and need 418 to fulfill your major, you may take ENG 423 or 408 instead. Dr. Geisler said either one would be acceptable.

Linda Flanagan
Degree Coordinator

Maybe I can take a CS class instead.

bigboots @ 2006-05-10T04:01:00

2006-05-10T11:11:08Z

Wow, I never thought this stuff would surface--Joe unearthed rare footage from the good ol' high school AV geek days.

A few points:

1. It's really sad that the rest of the movie and its soundtrack didn't survive.

2. But I'm actually glad my bits didn't survive.

3. Wow, I couldn't zoom for shit.

4. My apparent inability to operate a camera is actually an example of my groundbreaking cinéma vérité style, which I should note predates both Firefly and Battlestar Galactica, and which I invented all by myself.

bigboots @ 2006-05-01T22:29:00

2006-05-02T05:30:39Z

"How I explained infodumps and saved humanity"

bigboots @ 2006-05-01T21:39:00

2006-05-02T04:41:21Z

Radiohead's North American tour dates:

June 1 - Upper Darby, PA @ Tower Theatre
June 2 - Upper Darby, PA @ Tower Theatre

June 4 - Boston, MA @ Bank of America Pavilion
June 5 - Boston, MA @ Bank of America Pavilion

June 7 - Toronto, ON @ Hummingbird Centre
June 8 - Toronto, ON @ Hummingbird Centre

June 10 - Montreal, QC @ Salle Wilfred-Pelletier at Place des Arts
June 11 - Montreal, QC @ Salle Wilfred-Pelletier at Place des Arts

June 13 - New York, NY @ The Theatre at Madison Square Garden
June 14 - New York, NY @ The Theatre at Madison Square Garden

June 17 - Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival

June 19 - Chicago, IL @ Auditorium Theatre
June 20 - Chicago, IL @ Auditorium Theatre

June 23 - Berkeley, CA @ Greek Theater
June 24 - Berkeley, CA @ Greek Theater

June 26 - San Diego, CA @ Bayside
June 27 - San Diego, CA @ Bayside

June 29 - Los Angeles, CA @ Greek Theater
June 30 - Los Angeles, CA @ Greek Theater

In conclusion: what the fucking fuck? Berkeley's a long ways away.

bigboots @ 2006-02-12T12:31:00

2006-02-12T20:31:08Z

This guy is a genius.

bigboots @ 2006-02-11T23:57:00

2006-02-12T08:05:43Z

We have an assignment in my advanced tech writing class to "render our textbook obsolete" by repackaging the contents of its chapters in different, creative forms. I was going to savage my assigned chapter in a snarkily negative book review--what more fun way to present information than pointing out how stultifyngly poorly it's presented in its current form?

However, I cannot read more than a paragraph of this chapter without lapsing into a coma. This is a problem. Man, I hate all textbooks, or at least all humanities textbooks. They contain sentences like "Not all cultures celebrate the same holidays" that, when you read them, make you think wistfully that you could be spending your time watching an apple brown.

I need a mental palate cleanser. I think I'm gonna read some bizarre Polish science fiction fairy tails and call it a night.

bigboots @ 2006-02-08T19:14:00

2006-02-09T03:18:40Z

The Elements of Spam, by William Strunk Jr., E.B. White, and Generouss Q. Factotum

14. Use the active voice.

Notice how aloof the passive voice is.

Your balls are to be slurped the most by cum-starved nymphos!!!!!

Hardly persuasive. The five exclamation points feel tacked on, an attempt by an inexperienced writer to breathe life into a desiccated construction. The active voice, however, allows you to write with verve and straightforwardness.

Cum-starved nymphos will slurp your balls the most!!!!!

That'll teach you to read LiveJournal at work.

bigboots @ 2006-02-05T12:18:00

2006-02-05T20:17:54Z

Heh.