Archive for April, 2006

Wonders of Nature

Sunday, April 30th, 2006

My five year-old son has been watching a nature documentary series on DVD produced by the BBC. He’s so thoroughly absorbed the material that he’s taken to correcting his mother and me on the pronunciation of certain words. See, he thinks they ought to be spoken with a British accent.
So I’ve had occasion to meditate […]

The Cube: A Nightmare Recovered

Sunday, April 9th, 2006

Deep within my earliest childhood memories I have the indelible image of a vague and frightening setting: a featureless room with no doors or windows— floor, walls, and ceiling the same gleaming white grid. In the room a man sits alone with no memory of his arrival, wishing to be anywhere else. People appear and […]

A Sacred Cow to the Slaughter

Saturday, April 8th, 2006

I watch very little television, but for some time I’ve been hearing good things about Penn & Teller’s cable series Bullshit! in which they cast their jaundiced magician’s eye on a variety of popular myths. I just discovered that Google Video has the complete half-hour episode of Bullshit! wherein our heroes demolish the Bible. Definitely […]

Happy Belated “Sequence Day!”

Thursday, April 6th, 2006

Although not quite as insignificant as an Unbirthday, which I never miss celebrating, and while making hurried preparations to meet my doom on 06/06/06, I totally forgot to celebrate Sequence Day yesterday, whenupon fell the auspicious minute of 01:02:03 04/05/06. Of course in a mere 26 days I and other forgetful Americans can still celebrate […]