Adri at Mountain Top Lake

So in Greek Mythology, when a baby of some consequence is born, the oracle is consulted. The oracle then says something along the lines of "Baby Oedipus will kill his father and marry his mother." Then the parents freak out, ...Read More

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Charlton Heston died today. My mother really liked him the The Ten Commandments. So, apparently, did the LA Times. I'm always amazed by how the dead are represented. Which picture gets picked? Especially with someone like Chuck Heston. His oeuvre is ...Read More

Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell will step in and finish playing Heath Ledger's role in the new Terry Gilliam film, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. I'm intrigued. The recent Bob Dylan biopic, I'm Not There, played with the same ...Read More

I'm in shock. Total shock. Unexpected celebrity deaths are happening left and right. Read More

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Bobby Fischer died yesterday in Iceland. From the BBC: The US-born player, who became famous for beating Cold War Soviet rival Boris Spassky in 1972, died of an unspecified illness, his spokesman said. He was granted Icelandic citizenship in 2005 as a ...Read More

I haven't blogged in about nine days, because (well) I've been in Pittsburgh.  School started, I had a bunch of paperwork and I needed to take care of, and I needed to fill my life with as much scandal as ...Read More

I'm a big fan of TLAs (my old boss at Enron Defense loved saying "TLA" all the time. He'd say something like "EBS and other TLAs." The first day of work I stared at him until he finally explained: Three ...Read More