And now, for another exciting post of links and short comments: I’ve always been aware of having been gifted with a pretty powerful attention span. I have always kind of assumed it came from becoming a reader at a very young age, but I guess it’s equally plausible that things are actuall...

Some days I can't even understand my own mood swings or the situations that lead up to those mood swings. I lash out at the world when my hour is at its worst, only to see it reverse itself the very next day in a series of events that are nothing short of miraculous. If anything, it is the events li...

Cinematical has just received this exclusive clip from the film Medicine for Melancholy , which hits theaters in New York City tomorrow before arriving On Demand next week and then expanding to other theaters on February 13. The film, which premiered at last year's South by Southwest Film Festival t...

Rage is one of those things you tend to wish you never inherited from your parents or developed it on your own terms. Once brought up to its fullest, it is a hard thing to let go, until the source of that anger is silenced, permanently. For years, my short fuse was the only other alternative to my d...

Last night's fitful sleep granted me a remarkable number of dream vignettes. One of them haunts me. +++ Dressed in a suit and standing alongside an unknown companion, I contemplated the soil at my feet, made hard by winter's bitter touch. I thought particularly about the difficulty of digging a grav...

Image via Wikipedia I am not a technically oriented person when it comes to Applications !  I think Louis Gray is touching on a very important point !  Know Your User-before you change !  I have and opinion that Micro Blogging has an uphill battle to stay around !  Some times 140 characters buil...

Steep Ravine Trail, Mount Tamalpais, December 29th, 2009 "The deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion." Elizabeth and I devoted the afternoon of my thirty-first birthday to striding down (and then huffing back up) the aptly named Steep Ravine Trail in Mount Tamalpais State...

Image via Wikipedia I find certain terms Semantic Jazz !  My first is Blog which I have chosen to rename a content creation platform- The latest buzz word in the Digital Media is Social Media -  Which until I read Gotham Gal I had a hard time defining ! Gotham Gal’s content covers areas of o...

The house is quiet, save the heater clicking on and off, and the mysterious clicking that the ductwork makes as it heats up and cools down. The dog is back in the house now (still alive, which I might add is remarkable, give the hour of the day he chose to wake me), he’s been fed, and the chil...

I expect lots of things from webcomics, but I don’t usually expect to be stopped utterly in my tracks by a one-off strip. Damn. Tags: melancholy, webcomics...