Archive for May, 2009

  • The Foodie Blues

    The Foodie Blues

    May 7th, 2009 | The Ramble | terribleminds | 3 Comments

    I think I’m a foodie. I don’t want to be a foodie. I hate those guys. They’re kind of pretentious. They’re all “gastrique” this, and “beurre blanc” that. Pompous asses who shove their sniffers into a glass of wine and take a swig, detecting “floral notes of cigar smoke, the pungent tang of wood glue, [...]

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  • Four-Color Farewell

    Four-Color Farewell

    May 5th, 2009 | The Ramble | terribleminds | 4 Comments

    Comic books. I don’t read ‘em anymore. Why? Well, I’ll tell you. First, though, let me preface my normal “Internet Yelling” with this: I like comic books. I’m not knocking anybody who reads them, because I used to read them. I don’t believe that comics are the province of man-baby nerds vicariously wanking it over [...]

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  • Spoiler Warning

    Spoiler Warning

    May 2nd, 2009 | The Ramble | terribleminds | No Comments

    Spoiler warning: I don’t like spoilers. Let’s flip back in time to last night. Didn’t get to watch Dollhouse, which is cool because, Hulu is my favorite thing on the Net right now. I figure, I’ll drag the laptop downstairs during dinner, and the wife and I will crank up Dollhouse on the ol’ crotchburner [...]

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  • A Dram Of News

    A Dram Of News

    May 1st, 2009 | The Ramble | terribleminds | 2 Comments

    Got a few tidbits of news. Nothing tremendous. Nothing that will shake the earth to its molten core. But news, nevertheless. A while back, I got a short story accepted into a print anthology called “Vermin.” That anthology got canceled due to, as I understand it, funding issues. Now, though, the people who were going [...]

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