It’s final week right now at my college, and I am tits-deep in scholarship. One of the most important things to remember about writing is to always cite your sources. I’m particularly good at this because formatting is one of my passions. I always use the Chicago Manual of Style format, but [...]

Disaster or delicacy?
RECIPE: Homemade Nation’s center caked in ice
INGREDIENTS:

1 Major ice storm
1 Nation’s center (American)

DIRECTIONS:
Combine major ice storm and nation’s center in large bowl. Shake. Let sit overnight. Enjoy!
Note: This recipe kills 15 people

I recently (very recently!) blogged about the time that I hopefully will meet the girl of my dreams on a backpacking trip.  Here is how I will ask her to marry me:
How I will ask the woman I love to marry me. from Adrian Chen on Vimeo.

People always say, “Hope for the best but prepare for the worst.” I say, stop being so pessimistic! Hope for the best and prepare for it! For example, when I go on a two week backpacking trip the best thing I could hope for is to meet a cute girl and have [...]

At its core, Indian Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark is a story about Luke Skywalker coming to grips with the temptations and distortions of great power, incest and technological alienation. Sure, that’s the core. Lining the edges, though, is a powerful lesson about how to run your high tech [...]

Death.
It looks like I made a terrible error in mocking the Oregonian’s hysterical storm coverage last week. A deadly error. The Oregonian is reporting five deaths from last weekend’s Monster Destruction Typhoon 2007, and had I known that the storm would bring such horrific loss of life I would never have made light [...]

Hey, so I don’t know if anyone still reads this–I promise I will start posting again once finals are over!–but I made this video last night. It is a slide show to thank my parents for buying me an awesome digital camera!

 
THIS JUST IN: The Oregonian tells us a “Monster Storm” (AKA”Storm of the Decade”) will be hitting Oregon tomorrow. “The drama starts Saturday as small storm spins into the region from the North,” intones The O. Drama! Saturday!
THE BIGGER PICTURE: So THIS is what the striking WGA writers have been doing to [...]

A funny joke to do:
Walk up to the counter at a McDonald’s and say “Can I take your order?”

Please stand by
 
Feeling kind of bogged down by intense end-of-semester homework.  Creativity sapped.  Stand by.