http://rageofaquarius.com Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:16:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'd just managed to bury the terrible blood behind my viewing of the Changeling, when along comes Benjamin Button to stir the pot again. Admittedly, I'd read enough glowing reviews of both films to have higher-than-normal expectations. Still, I'd never expected that everyone involved with both productions (I will leave ... http://rageofaquarius.com/2009/01/why-cant-message-movies-stay-on-target/ Tuesday's hike was getting a little long, or thus spaketh my blisters, when I spotted the largest paw print I'd ever seen in my life. Along with it's three brothers. The prints were spread out across a stride bigger than my entire person. The front paw alone rivaled the size of my ... http://rageofaquarius.com/2008/11/bear-tracks/ On Wednesday, the wind went wild. Only a few hours after Barack Obama was elected president, the winds of change blew through Wyoming. Yes, there are indubitably more scientific explanations for the weather event, but this is my blog, and I'm sticking to my own brand of meteorology.... We lost some trees (read: gained some firewood) ... http://rageofaquarius.com/2008/11/huff-n-puff/ I cried last night when I heard the news. It still seems too good to be true--I guess I'm shellshocked after the last eight years. I keep expecting bad news around the corner. I want so badly to believe that we are this ready, but I can't let my shoulders ... http://rageofaquarius.com/2008/11/sweet-relief/ It takes a decent amount of feeling badly to get me to go to a doctor. The degree of badness required isn't equal, body-part-wise, either. A week with an upper respiratory infection is plenty. My stomach--well, that remains to be seen. Because the bad feelings I was left with after the ... http://rageofaquarius.com/2008/11/the-mysterious-case-of-the-funky-belly/ In the author's own confessional vein, I must admit: I don't understand Roth's allure. At all. I've got 25 pages left in his latest, Indignation, and by gum the only thing keeping me on task is the promise that the main character dies young. This reveal comes courtesy of the character himself. ... http://rageofaquarius.com/2008/10/the-incomprehensible-allure-of-philip-roth/ Mathematically, connectedness is easy to achieve in a topological space. A graph is said to be connected if each pair of vertices share a path. In human terms, however, our life paths are far removed from each other. Even if we meet up at certain points, few of us would say we truly "connect" with many people. It ... http://rageofaquarius.com/2008/10/the-myth-of-connectedness/ There's something to be said for dreary day jobs:  If nothing else, they teach fortitude. And patience. And strength. Believe me, on days like today, it takes every ounce of energy I have not to wipe my hard drive and just walk out the door. Here's to hoping I am strong enough ... http://rageofaquarius.com/2008/10/one-foot-in-front-of-the-other/ It doesn't take a brain surgeon to surmise which box I'll be checking on November 4th. Approximately thirty seconds after meeting me, my politics become obvious. Most McCain supporters don't dress like I do. Give me another minute to open my mouth, and there's no doubt at all. I don't mind wearing ... http://rageofaquarius.com/2008/10/obama-bias/ There's something in me that, since I was a very small child, has rebelled against the idea of joining in with the crowd. I don't think my logic follows the oft-quoted Groucho Marx "I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member," either. My tendency isn't self-deprecating, but suspicious. ... http://rageofaquarius.com/2008/10/safety-in-numbers/