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Random Band Photo: Bad Wizard

<center> <br /> <img alt="bad-wizard-at-continental.jpg" src="/blog/images/bad-wizard-at-continental.jpg" width="400" height="255" title="Bad Wizard live at the Continental" /><br /> </center></div>…

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Behold, the power of rain!

Well, the convention never managed to mess up my commute, but a few inches of rain overnight seems to have done the trick. My normal 30 minute commute took an hour and twenty minutes this morning due to service disruptions on the subway system. The walk through the tunnel between the 8th avenue line and the 7 train alone took almost 20 minutes.…

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Why I Marched

<p> I&#8217;d love for someone, anyone, to explain to me why Iraq was the main breeding ground for terrorism that we had to tackle. Weren&#8217;t the terrorists who attacked our country mainly from Saudi Arabia? Isn&#8217;t the leader of Al-Qaeda the scion of a wealthy Saudi family? Don&#8217;t the Saudi people deserve liberation from the monarchists who are looting the oil wealth of their country? Of course, the deep economic relationships between the Bush family and the Saudi royal family couldn&#8217;t have influenced our foreign policy.…

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Gaping Void: How To Be Creative

<p> The second, more subtle and profound advantage is: that by scuppering all hope of worldly and social betterment from the creative act, you are finally left with only one question to answer: </p> <p> Do you make this damn thing exist or not? </p> <p> And once you can answer that truthfully to yourself, the rest is easy. </p></blockquote> <p> <br /> He hasn&#8217;t included two of the newer posts in the series, <a href="http://www.…

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