The Absent Minded Professor

Dear Geeks: We’re Still Not the Popular Kids

Dear Geeks, We need to talk. I just don’t know if I can take it any more. You’re so wrapped in yourselves, it’s like you can’t even hear the deafening silence from everyone else. Yes, I am, of course, talking about Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and it’s low box-office bucks. If I have to [...]

Hope, Despair, and Passion: Why I miss Unhappy People

Despair implies a knowledge that there is something better we are not achieving. Despair is longing. Despair is hope. My Coworkers: What do you miss about California, Dawson? Me: That everyone is supremely unhappy. My Coworkers: Huh? I was thinking about something involving despair and hope (prompted by my ever present Twitter folks: “Proving through [...]

Inception: Last Night’s Adventure

The Trailer: This is my story of the adventure of going to see it. Click here to jump straight to my review: I went and saw Inception last night. It was a bit of an adventure. The first theater I went to was sold out of tickets for the last showing they had at 8:45pm. [...]

Down the Dark Corridor Part 2

Part one is located: here It wasn’t what I had anticipated. As I crossed from the murky, dim depths of the water into the blackest night of the corridor I suddenly felt a rush of water slam down on my head from above and then I was landing heavily on cold, hard stone, my breath [...]

Down the Dark Corridor

I can’t breathe, I thought to myself.   You don’t need to. I wasn’t sure where the response had come from, maybe inside my own head. But, with my biggest concern resolved my mind was freed to take in my surroundings. It was dark, murky beneath the depths of the water. I could hear, distantly, waves [...]

Words are cheap…

Words are cheap…but finding your voice- that costs you. In fact, it costs years of your life, laughter, tears, hate, and love. Finding your voice requires something to say… that something has been lived (well known secret: writers mostly use what they’ve lived as the initial seed of a story). I’ve wondered at my recent [...]