cliffdweller

Why do religious groups protest things? don't they know there are enough people out there who will go just because they say not to? Remember the last temptation of Christ? it was not a very good movie. it was long, and boring. it would have come and gone within two weeks, except some religious organization organized a boycott and it got a bajillion free dollars of advertising. At the...

I've dusted off an old outline for a story I was writing once. I've been thinking about it for a couple of weeks. I'm thinking that I'm going to rework the outline slightly and then start cranking out the book. If you've seen an outline in the last year or two from me, then that's the one I'm talking about. If you haven't seen it, then you'll just have to wait for it to appear on the NYT best...

Yay! It's another post about meaningless milestones! How many can I think of off the top of my head? Yesterday's cancer doc check up with Dr. Tony marks my 10th year of living cancer free, which combined with the other 34 years in my life without cancer adds up to 44 years. Funny how math works. I posted a post on my blog every single day in June, that's gotta be some kind of record. Will...

When i was in high school, I wrote a short story about a girl racing from her death down Interstate 45. In the story I used the phrase "her hair was styled for church." I remember when I wrote that. I struggled for a day or two to come up with just the right phrase. It was a pivotal part of the story and it needed to be just right. Oddly, I scribbled "styled for...

Yesterday I had a very productive meeting with a marketing guy. He asked me a couple of leading questions about where I wanted my company to be in a year, in five years. For the first time, other than some nebulous "this is what I'm going to do" with my company, I actually began to think in terms of what's the next phase. I'm excited about where it is headed. Funny, it's all...

I think it got close to 100° in Portland today. That's hot. I don't like it when it's hot. It makes it hard to do anything. If I wanted hot, I'd still live down south somewhere. ouch....

By now I had intended to have seen Wall•e, but it was not meant to be. Every time I started thinking about buying advanced tickets this week, I got sidetracked. Yes, it's been one of those weeks. Well, as it turned out, the movie was sold out when we got there. So we missed it. Instead we went to Wanted, the Angelina Jolee film. It was fun, but as you know almost any movie is fun for me....