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, 2011 # No Comment Yet
At about 4:35 this afternoon, science officially defeated me for the week. There’s an outside chance that I might be able to make up a little ground tomorrow, but the best I can hope for is to lessen the lopsidedness of the defeat. It’s all been a blur, the week. It never ceases to amaze [...]
Sir @ November 14, 2011 # No Comment Yet
There are conflicting opinions as to the role of lactic acid in muscle soreness. Some medical types feel that it actually has little to do with post-exertion aches and pains, while those more inclined to the status quo feel that it’s clearly the bastard involved. There’s science to back up both schools of thought, the [...]
Sir @ August 25, 2011 # 4 Comments
This week’s installment of the IndieInk Writing Challenge was submitted by Indie: ‘Have you tried nailing jello to a tree?’ I have not partaken of jello crucifiction, as such, but am willing to try (nearly) anything once for the sake of learning. My challenge this week fell to Sherree, whose answer can be found here [...]
Sir @ May 26, 2011 # 7 Comments
This week’s installment of the IndieInk Writing Challenge was submitted by Dilli, who provided a line from Sarah Kay’s exceptional poem, ‘Point B’: ‘Okay, there’s a few heartbreaks chocolate can’t fix. But that’s what the rain boots are for, because rain will wash away everything if you let it.’ My challenge this week fell to [...]
Sir @ April 21, 2011 # 7 Comments
This week’s installment of the IndieInk Writing Challenge was submitted by Wendryn: It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. – Charles Darwin It supplements a week that’s been jam packed with science-related blah blah. My [...]
Sir @ March 10, 2011 # 11 Comments
This week’s instalment of the IndieInk Writing Challenge is a doozy. My challenge, submitted by Dara: ‘One of my favorite quotes is from Salman Rushdie’s novel Midnight’s Children: “Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. [...]
Sir @ December 4, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Wonder. How did you cultivate a sense of wonder in your life this year? There was this thing that I managed to do involving science that worked really well after many days, weeks, and months of trying to get it to work. Let’s see what kind of writer I really am. Can I explain this [...]
Sir @ November 28, 2010 # 4 Comments
What if you were pregnant or got someone pregnant, what would you do? If I were pregnant, I’d invite biomedical researchers from across the world to a conference, wherein I would stand on the stage, spread my arms wide, and scream, ‘OK, PEOPLE. HIGHEST BIDDER. WHO WANTS A PIECE OF THIS?’ If I had gotten [...]
Sir @ November 27, 2010 # 3 Comments
What’s the best thing going for you right now? When people ask me what I do, I neither cringe nor sigh before answering. I think this may place me in rare company in the world of employment. I haven’t quite perfected the most efficient answer to the question yet, though, because it’s not a job, [...]
Sir @ November 25, 2010 # 4 Comments
The reason you believe you’re still alive today Hell, I don’t know. I could wax philosophical about the meaning of life and what keeps us going and how everything happens for a reason and blah blah blah, but I’ve already beaten that dead horse into the ground. And what is it about dead horses that [...]