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Let's see. As my page heading implies, I am currently reading the Castle by Franz Kafka. I still have a ways to go, but it is my favourite Kafka yet - that being in comparison to the Trial or Metamorphosis. The Trial seemed intentionally plodding. It never really escaped its premise, and as good as that was, it didnt really warrant a novel. Metamorphosis just...
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WoW has kind of devoured my current existence. Anyway, BESIDES the enormous amount of WoW, I've been slowly reading a Canticle for Leibowitz. It was surprisingly good. Not that I had expected otherwise, but it wasn't quite what I had thought it was going to be. Anyway, very well written, very well developed. It leapt around through centuries, and gave little explanation for the current...
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Spent most of today reading Warren Ellis' Crooked Little Vein. I mostly picked it up because of the amazing quote by Joss Whedon on the back: "I think this book ate my soul. Warren Ellis has mapped out the psychosexual underbelly of America with a foreigner's clarity and a lunatic's glee. Funny, inventive, and blithely appalling, this book is Dante on paint fumes." I also...
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I am a useless blogger. I just don't much feel like ever writing in this thing. Meh, let's get some very brief retrospective thoughts down here.

Veronica Mars: 8/10. Unfair to judge it yet as I am still not quite done the series. Update soon.
Clive Barker - Mister B. Gone: 7/10.
Douglas Adams - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency: 7/10. The title character just...
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If anyone knows anything about computers, I would appreciate help. I just bought Gears of War. This game's minimum specs are pretty much the same as what I have. It requires 2.0 GHz AMD, 1 GB RAM, NVidia GeForce 6600+. I have 2.33 GHz AMD, 1 GB RAM, NVidia Geforce 6600 GT, so I should be able to run the game at minimum specs. However,...
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I thought I would advise any passersby in the direction of "The Man From Earth". I just watched it and have to give it my seal of approval. I am having difficulty comparing it to any film I know, though. It was sort of like "Waking Life" mixed with "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?". I had been prepared for a slow intellectual sci fi movie,...
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The Dillinger Escape Plan released their entire new album, set for a release on November 13th, on their myspace page. I have been watching their development as a band for quite some time with interest, but this new album floored me. Miss Machine proved that their musical influences were more fluid than you might have expected from theri sound, and it showed their willingness...
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Holy Zombie Jesus. I have been away from SG for so long. I have started several updates, but essentially I just don't have anything worth saying.

I quit my job.
I am playing mass quantities of World of Warcraft... seriously, I'm averaging at least 15 hours per day.

And that's pretty much it. Those two notes are partially connected, by the way. I am only...
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I just thought I would announce that I am somewhat drunk. I haven't been drinking much for the past year, but now I have been drunk for the past four days, which very conveniently parallels the time I have been back to school, as well as the time I have had my new drunken roomate.

There are certain issues around which I have difficulty admitting...
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After a long summer of working a job I hate, I have decided to redefine the term boredom.

Boredom: n. Not merely an absence of activity, it is the lack of importance placed upon an unalterable activity. Thus, it is possible to be bored while busy, if one finds no value within their activities.

My coworkers seem tobe under the delusion that a rush of...
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I just went to see Evil Dead the Musical. I saw it in 2004 as well, but I didn't remember it that well. It was freaking hilarious. Beyond the sheer fun of the blood seats, or splatter zone, as they now call it, the comedic elements worked really well. Ryan Ward who played Ash did an amazing job of nailing the Bruce Campbelll nuances....
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I was at the Toronto Fan Expo yesterday. It was an odd experience. I missed many of the events I was looking forward to. I spent hours in line ups. The guests were disappointments. And yet, I had one hell of a good time.

I waited about an hour in a line of maybe 80 people to meet Yasuhiro Nightow. But when I did, he...
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