Read this today from the AVClub, they had an interview with Rolling Stone columnist Matt Taibbi - AVC: The other night, Larry King was talking about the election with Joy Behar from The View— MT: [Laughs.] There's two intellectual giants debating politics. AVC: Behar was talking about some US Magazine cover where they explore Michelle Obama's relationship with her husband. It's even called something like "Why Barack Loves Her." And ...

We came to Texas in April of 2005. I took a job with the Dallas Cowboys, which was a backwards career move but a way to get out of Arkansas. Just as going to Harding was probably a mistake but I met Heather, going to work for Jerry TV was a mistake except for the fact that it brought us to Dallas and to all our ...

The Admission Review Committee has reviewed your application file carefully and, based on the information presented, we cannot accept you for admission to this program. Didn't get in. I guess that's 27k saved. bleh.

I'm trying to get into grad school. I took the GRE last week. At the end it gives you your unofficial scores. I was pleased with the verbal one, it was in my goal range. I called my mom. Told her, and she said, "well...you know you can always take it again!" Mom took the GRE in the early 90s. Her ...

Fetch = my FTP client. It tells me there are three minutes remaining, but it really means 30 or more.

Heather is asleep. She and I both got tired today and decided to take a nap at 7:30 at night. Stupid, but whatever, we're on vacation. I woke up at 8:30, left the room and watched the rest of the suns game with Jomo and Mom. I thought Heather woke up too, but didn't actually check on her till 10:30. She is still ...

On the left, a river of white stretches from the horizon to my vantage point. On the right, a river of red forms an unbroken train for as far as I can see. Why is there so much traffic this late in the day? The day is over. The sun has set. It shouldn't set this early but it has. Last week it was ...

A few weeks ago, I started feeling a pain in my toe, which I knew to be a minor ingrown toenail. It came as somewhat of a surprise, since I threw away my pointy-toed, beautiful green mules. The ones with the buttons on them THAT I LOVED. On several occasions I had sewn and glued them back together with a range of adhesives, including glue dots, masking tape, ...