Just did a Google Maps search for something else when some perverse imp moved me to look up my late mother's address and do a Street View. Seeing the street moved me to experience a profound feeling of loss. It is also, possibly, the fact that this will be my first Christmas without her, and the sadness of her life this past decade. Whatever it is, it's moving around in my chest, this great feeling of loss and regret.
I miss my mom.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Sunday, November 16, 2008
New Watchmen Trailer
The one-sheet is at my local movie place, the one with Eddie Blake getting tossed out of his window. I am sorrily stoked for this movie. Hopefully the asinine legal issues get resolved to everyone's satisfaction, but no news is good news.
Monday, October 20, 2008
Friday, October 17, 2008
Feelin' low...
Don't know why exactly, but I am feeling down today...bleh. Days like this, my favorite thing would be to go to Borders, slap on earphones, find a cushy chair and read for hours from a stack of assorted books and magazines. Bleh.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Friday, September 26, 2008
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Happy Birthday, Bilbo Baggins (and The Hobbit)
On this date, September 21st, in 1937, J.R.R. Tolkien's estimable The Hobbit was first published by George Allen & Unwin, Ltd. of London.
Within the literary universe of Middle Earth, moreover, September 22nd is also the birth date of both Bilbo Baggins and that of his cousin Frodo. I just happened to find the coincidence fascinating.
I first read The Hobbit back in 1977 as a summer reading assignment. It was a book I was aware of because of my early immersion into geek topics like monsters and science fiction, but I had never been driven to read it until then. To say that I loved it would be understating it. I devoured it, gulped it down, internalized it, and that book, along with James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small, gave me a mental picture of England that I would retain for years. I love Middle Earth and all its versions, including Rankin-Bass, Bakshi, BBC Radio, and Jackson, but this one, this Hobbit, is the main one.
Happy Birthday, Bilbo and Frodo. May the stars shine on you.
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Now playing: Jack Johnson - The Sharing Song
via FoxyTunes
Within the literary universe of Middle Earth, moreover, September 22nd is also the birth date of both Bilbo Baggins and that of his cousin Frodo. I just happened to find the coincidence fascinating.
I first read The Hobbit back in 1977 as a summer reading assignment. It was a book I was aware of because of my early immersion into geek topics like monsters and science fiction, but I had never been driven to read it until then. To say that I loved it would be understating it. I devoured it, gulped it down, internalized it, and that book, along with James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small, gave me a mental picture of England that I would retain for years. I love Middle Earth and all its versions, including Rankin-Bass, Bakshi, BBC Radio, and Jackson, but this one, this Hobbit, is the main one.
Happy Birthday, Bilbo and Frodo. May the stars shine on you.
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Now playing: Jack Johnson - The Sharing Song
via FoxyTunes
Tuesday, September 09, 2008
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