Despite the wonders that are delivered by digital music today, sometimes I really miss lying on my back on a shag carpet, eyes closed, two huge stack speakers aimed at my head, listening to a quality vinyl record played over excellent analog equipment.
One day I wish to retire to a dictionary.
Sometimes I come untethered.
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Sir @ November 17, 2010 # 3 Comments
A book you’ve read that changed your views on something The Alchemist I can’t do this book justice. The nutshell version of the story is that a boy believes that his destiny lies elsewhere from his idyllic existence as a shepherd in the Spanish countryside, so he sets out to find said destiny, ends up [...]
Sir @ May 20, 2010 # 5 Comments
Science writing sucks, kids. It sucks so hard. It generates hypotheses that lead to potential cures for stuff and furthers the neverending quest for knowledge and understanding, sure, but it still blows goats. During weeks of days spent writing words, then agonizing over the words you’d written, then hunting down references in order to make [...]
Sir @ July 17, 2009 # 14 Comments
Damn this man and his infernal questions! Ten Favorite Books Death with Interruptions by Jose Saramago – What would happen if death stopped doing her job for awhile? How would the government, the clergy, and the general population react? Are people so sure that dying is such a bad thing? The plot and the writing [...]
Sir @ July 13, 2008 # 7 Comments
Rare it is that I fly back to 14th-century England. It was a nasty time, overall. An astonishing lack of toilets. The beginning of The Hundred Years’ War. Chaucer *shudder*. Oh, but wait. There was this person, Anonymous, who wrote this lyrical poem called Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Whenever I hop in the [...]