A Building Roam

San Diego Padres' odds of making the playoffs as of August 26th: 96.7 % San Diego Padres' odds of making the playoffs as of today ...

I'd like to share with you a pretty amazing but fairly unknown documentary. It's called "The Century of the Self" and it t...

Just read something extremely intellectually pleasing: a clear and lucid explanation of a part of Salvador Dali's painting Marsupial Cen...

Yesterday I took part in my second (official) fantasy football draft in nine years. The first one had been back in September of 2001. I was ...

I spent this beautiful Sunday afternoon doing domestic chores (dishes and laundry) while watching the Padres play the visiting Colorado Rock...

After another loss to the Colorado Rockies yesterday afternoon, the Padres have now gone 9 games without a win. It's the longest losing ...

I've already written a few posts here gushing about the movie Inception and, depending on how well I hone my writing skills between ...

My massive Portrait post , one part of it at least, was mentioned on the blog for the James Joyce Quarterly the other day and now I'm o...

(I would like to present this book excerpt because it's something I often find myself bringing up in conversation but don't always e...

This is the cover for the latest chapter of the monthly Madlib series we've been blessed with this year, Medicine Show #8: Advanced Ja...