Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Hastily-Painted Acrylic Sketches from TV: "24" Edition: 4:00 - 5:00 PM

THRILLING INTERNATIONAL NUKE INSPECTION TALKS!!
Beautiful.  The first time we see Chloe she is scowling at people and computers alike.  I've just noticed on my computer a picture from last year named "ChloeUnhappy.jpg."  Chloe, don't ever change.
The bad guys accommodate Jack by showing up seconds after he mentions them to the police, saving him all the usual tiresome business of waiting around while the cops call CTU for verification.
Before today's henchmen can remark how dangerous this building is, what with the missing fire axe and all, Jack demonstrates that the axe is still around.  Jack Bauer: the man who brings an axe to a gunfight.  And wins.

Thursday, August 27, 2009

And then there were none

Yesterday I had one of those first-week-of-school moments of panic, when I looked up and realized I was the only person in the library.  It didn't help that several classmates, present minutes earlier, were suddenly all gone.  What am I missing?  What part of the schedule do I have wrong?!  So then of course I had to run around peeking into classrooms looking for the phantom class.  This may be further evidence that I am infected by epistemology.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

YOU'RE WITH ME, LOBSTER


 You know those things that bug you when you're, say, twelve years old, but no one else even seems to notice them, so you figure you must be the only weirdo who thinks about it?  Is it a little bit reassuring to find out that lots of other people have devoted considerable thought to the same problem?