Month: December 2008

I'mnot really a big fan of celebrating the New Year. The actual holiday always strikes me as a waste of time - It's a fresh new year! That's why everything's closed and you can't do anything! - and I have no interest in staying up until midnight for any reason unless I can sleep in ... Read more

Soas family members in Utah discovered at Christmas, I finished my novel and had five copies printed by Lulu.com, the vanity publishing house that has produced Languatron's masterworks over the years. I wanted to print more copies, but I didn't want to do it until I saw what it would look like in print. The ... Read more

Twodays before Christmas, I was discussing our Christmas Eve celebration with my father. The celebration takes place up at my parents’ home, and Cornells from hither and yon gather to eat, yak, and listen to little kids sing and/or play their piano recital pieces. The performance part of the Christmas Eve program ranges from the ... Read more

I'mup early on Christmas Eve, so I thought I'd blog quickly and then avoid the wrath of a wife who thinks I ought to be spending time with children instead of my computer. I shan't be blogging on Christmas Day, unless absolutely necessary. (What is wrong with me?) Questions were raised in the comments about ... Read more

Ithought I had more to say about Christmas specials, but reading back over yesterday's post, I realized I had pretty much covered it. Year Without a Santa Claus is probably my favorite of the stop motion thingees, but they went and ruined it with a live action version a couple of years ago. Which brings ... Read more

Iwatched the new Muppet Christmas special with the whole clan the other night, and I was pleasantly surprised by how good it was. It was silly, hokey, and unabashedly sentimental, and A-list stars like Nathan Lane and Uma Thurman showed up and cheerfully made fools out of themselves. (Actually, are they considered A-list? I can ... Read more

Ihave a deep, abiding faith that there is a God. But as Al Franken is now just two votes away from stealing a US Senate seat, atheists could make a pretty strong case with me right about now. On Election Night, Coleman was over 700 votes ahead. Then, suddenly, ballots started appearing from out of ... Read more

Iupdated the Moist Board from phpBB3 3.0.0. to 3.0.4, and now it doesn't work.  Hopefully, this is but a temporary glitch.  ... Read more

SoI recorded a rough demo of "The Miracle of the Christmas Poo." It's a big hit with my Facebook friends, so I thought I'd be bold enough to share it here. I'd like to do a legit studio recording thereof, but I doubt I'll have time before Christmas.  I have since discovered, however, that South ... Read more

It’sgetting very hard to keep up with this blog as Christmas gets ever closer, as preparations for Christmas start becoming more and more like a full time job. The decorations and lights are up; the cards are sent; about 75% of the presents are bought. But now there are the parties and the neighbor gifts ... Read more