What's your theory on what's really behind the M$/Y! thing? Opportunistic hardship snatch? To keep them from continuing down the avenue of unholy alliance with Google and Apple? Property? Side effect of insufficient sunlight? (If you can't tell me here, ping me somewhere else.)

Remember when some of you were asking me if I was excited about the elections, and I said I'd wait to be excited until I saw the turnout numbers? There was a reason for that. As it happens, someone else has already written out the story of the numbers for me, so all I am left to say is that yes, I am getting excited now. The story of elections in America is more about which demographics rally and...

18:18 she did, in fact, say 'personal brand'. # Fresh tweets shipped daily by LoudTwitter !

I google mapped the house I grew up in. It's still there, along with the rest of the neighborhood, nestled between lakes and more lakes, but now, everywhere that used to be forest-padding between the chains of middle-class suburban oversized lots, there's strip malls, apartments, condos, squeezed into every space where once I played and made mischief. There are 4-plus lane roads where I remember the...

13:12 Leather couches have this uncanny ability to suck all the heat out of my body via my ass. # 13:32 listening to someone get paid to tell someone else the sort of coaching I di for free # 13:33 if she says 'personal brand' I'm gonna guffaw... # Fresh tweets shipped daily by LoudTwitter !

"You thought, as a boy, that a mage is one who can do anything. So I thought, once. So did we all. And the truth is that as a man's power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he must do..." - from Ursula K. Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea

00:08 COOKIES! with HEARTS! # Fresh tweets shipped daily by LoudTwitter !

Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet has been, for YEARS now, the item in his Red Curtain Trilogy I have least liked or understood. I love Baz, and I understand the majority of why he does just about everything he does...except this movie. I guess when I first saw it, I was too old for the youthful idealism, too young for the snarky cynicism, and just generally confused about a lot of Baz's stylistic decisions...

Yeah, go ahead, vote for Obama, he's clearly earned his darling of the radical left position. Don't cry when he winds up being another Clintonian centrist, just one flavored with charisma, post-boomer values, and more about charisma than detail-minding. And pay close attention to who he gives his ear to, because that's going to matter a lot. (Personally, I think Hillary would do a much better job...

Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Leaves of Grass. 1900. 166. O Me! O Life! O ME! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; Of the endless trains of the faithless—of cities fill’d with the foolish; Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?) Of eyes that vainly crave the light—of the objects mean—of the struggle ever renew’d; Of the poor results...