JMan, over breakfast after watching the movie ’9′: I think it interesting that he put his intellect into the machine, but not his soul. He put his soul into the dolls.
Sitting in my chair at the table, Bookzilla crawls into my lap. Since she is now 14, 5’9″, 120 lbs, this isn’t the same as when she was little. I worry that the chair, a resin arm chair, will break under the strain and try to keep her from wiggling around. JMan has a rich [...]
I’m sitting outside on the balcony of our condo in Kailua and JMan comes up. He asks if Bookzilla can play music on the laptop. I had been singing “Fly Like An Eagle” by Steve Miller while pouring coffee to take out to the balcony. He asks, but it is a wild, scratchy, chortling voice. [...]
JMan has an easy laugh. The other kids like him. He is up more than he is down. I was sitting out side with him on Friday, at a table in front of a Thai restaurant in downtown Kirkland. The waitress had taken our order and I started talking about the future. He stopped me. [...]
JMan is at dinner and his feelings were a little crumpled around the edges. Bookzilla laughed when he started to talk. His feelings got a little more dinged. He started to talk again and Bookzilla waited and zinged him with a laugh at just the right time. I called her on it. I told her [...]
There is a subtle spin in this AP article about Roman Polanski. PARIS – Filmmaker Roman Polanski has broken his months-long silence to lay out his case for why he should not be extradited from Switzerland to the U.S. In a post on a friend’s Web site, Polanski says he is not asking for pity [...]
I’ve been watching a new television show, Parenthood, a little. I liked the movie, mostly, and this show tries to recapture some of those story beats. Some of the writing is good, most of it mawkish. Characters often perform the “adults behaving badly” dance with very little veritas. Characters behave in ways that would make [...]
Matt Taibbi gets his rant on. Titled “The Catholic Church is a Criminal Enterprise” Anyone who’s interested in losing his lunch should read the above-mentionedblog entry by New York archbishop Timothy Dolan in defense of Pope Benedict; the archbishop’s incredibly pompous and self-pitying rant is some of the most depraved horseshit I’ve ever seen on [...]
Letters published by advice columnists are usually in that 2-3 sigma range and rarely the 4+ sigma. The one that followed this one was from a woman who was with her husband for 12 years, married 5, and wondered about bringing up the question of kids. He is on meds for depression, so the doctor [...]