LJF Wolffe, Weirdo at Large

We arrived at the hotel about 12:30, got checked in, got our stuff to the room, and then went out again to see what was up. The answer — nothing. We got to hear about difficulties in almost every department, since we hung out where the volunteers do; everyone was having problems. And there never [...]

A week from today, I’ll be checking into a hotel for a weekend of wonderful weirdness known as OryCon. If you’re anything like our household, some time this weekend you’ll be pulling out the suitcases for the process of packing — 75% of the stuff goes in during the first two days, with the rest [...]

I love language. You’d expect that, from a former English major — but since I spent a lot of time in band as well (football was invented to have a reason for the half-time show — you do know that, don’t you?), I also love the music of language. The flow of it, the rhythms, [...]

Hotay. So it’s now November; Halloween is over, the election is tomorrow and I’ve gotten my vote in (gods, I love Oregon!), the sky is a beautiful grey and it’s raining regularly. Now it’s time to concentrate on . . . ORYCON!!!
What is OryCon, you ask? It’s the Portland, OR annual fan-run science fiction convention. [...]

MiLady has found a bunch of 80s scifi TV, and we’ve spent the last week watching Buck Rogers. Now we’ve moved on to something she remembers and I don’t — though it looks familiar — called Voyagers. And I’m beginning to have an inkling of why I have a small problem with the real world.
There’s [...]

Pardon me while I brag a little! I joined my Internet University in June; I did the 30 Day Challenge in August (which taught me more about making money online than that $%&@#?! Internet University ever did); and yesterday, checking my stats, I discovered that I had actually MADE MONEY! About $3, but who cares? [...]

Found out on FaceBook today that Weird Al Yankovic (I don’t know him well enough to call him “Al;” I just own everything he’s ever put out!) has a new song available! You can buy it from iTunes, or you can listen to it on YouTube here. The “video” part is a static picture, and [...]

The title line was said by Denis Leary in No Cure for Cancer. He dared to make a joke about Jim Henson’s funeral, and a hush fell over the room. But he’s right — for some of us, the Muppets are just too cool. Someone posted this video to YouTube, and I had to post [...]

. . . yeah, right! Try over 600! No, I’m not kidding.
Take a person who’s spent the majority of their free time in fantasy worlds. Add in a spouse with a similar proclivity, who’s been mobility disabled for the last few years. Add in our favorite type of movie, “previously viewed,” and the fact that [...]

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Well, Hi there, all you happy people! (Although I’m sure that as the first post on a new blog, it’ll probably get read by maybe three people. Thanks, you three.) I got tired of having a [...]