turn it off

Even watching the local news now is depressing. Sex, murder, kidnappings, boats capsizing... At least the Mariners lost.

(As for national news, I gave up on that almost a year ago. It's not like there's anything I can do to make things less despicable. I have my email updates from activist web sites, and I send letters to my congresspeople, but that's about it. I still care to a certain extent about, say, the drug war and abortion, but caring any more than that is too painful. And basically a waste of my energy...)

hmmm

if philosophy is mental masturbation, then reading about it must be something like watching a brain try to suck on its own hypothalamus...

a little less conversation

Trivia night at Irish pubs seems to be a nationwide phenomenon. Unfortunately my first visit was a bit too close to Elvis' death; consequently about half of the questions were about him. I should go around Lennon's shooting next time, as I'm far more informed on Beatles trivia than Elvis. Also there weren't nearly enough movie questions (though I did get them all). I didn't really help in any other category, alas, and the one non-movie question I did know the answer to got voted down. Still it was a good time, I never really mind showing off my (somewhat sketchy) knowledge.

(And if say, during premiere week, they ask a bunch of Buffy questions, I'm totally down with that.)

how novel....

another 1480 words. that makes 79K total. woo!