Barcelona was visited for spring break (Spring Break? Seriously? I believe that’s the first time I’ve ever referred to Semana Santa as “Spring break”), and good times were had by all. It was, however, a serious disappointment to walk into a bar and discovering they had black lights on, and I wasn’t wearing anything white. […]

I vowed to never, ever start a writing with “Another Xxxxxx has come and gone”, but when another holiday trip has come and gone, it’s hard to dodge the spectre (british spelling!) of The Expected. I can finally add another stupid thing to the list of stupid things I’ve done, and include “Sabotaging my own […]

I’ll get it out of the way: 300 is good. Not great, but really good. I wanted to like it more than I did, but its comic-book dialogue really stands out in the big screen. I don’t mean that in a good way, either: the phrase “Give them nothing! But take from them everything!” is cool […]

I keep trying to make a “Best of 2007″ list, and I keep failing. The monumental task of cataloguing 365 days of stuffs is beyond me, even more so at this particular point in time. I’m taking the easy way out, even if it feels like a cop-out: bite-sized reviews, filled with hagiographical fawning and […]

HIPPOGRIFF: Orpheus. We have heard of your loss; you have our sympathies also.
ORPHEUS: I do not need your pity, Hippogriff.
HIPPOGRIFF: It was freely given, boy. You should not scorn it.
ORPHEUS: Don’t pity me.
MORPHEUS: You should have gone to her funeral.
ORPHEUS: Why?
MORPHEUS: To say goodbye.
ORPHEUS: I have not yest said goodbye to Eurydice.
MORPHEUS: You should. You […]

I’ve been meaning to write an “About Me” page for a while, but I just can’t decide what to put in there. I’ve settled for the “I play World of Warcraft, probably more than I should”, but beyond that, I’m at a loss for words. I may have settled on something, which you may or […]

He said it out loud, he was black and he was proud. James Brown dead at 73.

This post title is, I fear, subject to cultural interpretation. For the longest time, turkey was sinonymous with Christmas. Then, in grade school, Thanksgiving came into my life, and December was no longer turkey-exclusive. Nowadays, with local traditions gravitating towards lamb or morwong (with obligatory Wikipedia link, ofc.), turkey has lost most of its […]