yet another dave - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I have two autistic children who are my wards and my wardens. I am probably a little bit autistic myself.I study politics and make pretend like I understand the world. But it's too vast and crazy and scary to really understand.I write, but not as much as I should. I play games, probably more than I should.I drink. I smoke. I was born a skeptic, but politics has made me a cynic.When I was a kid we use to do "eskimo kisses" which was rubbing our noses together. I call them 'nose kisses' now, in deference to the Inuit, but I still do them. There is no feeling so bad that a nose kiss from one of my sons can't make at least a little better.

CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO MY BLOG!

AND CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO MY WIFE'S...

My Interests

autism, reading, writing, politics, games

Music:

Bob Dylan, Hawksley Workman, Cake, Leonard Cohen, Billy Bragg, Bob Wiseman, Tom Waits

Movies:

Star Wars, Star Trek, Wag the Dog, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Roadside Prophets ("Free food for the poor!"), Monty Python everything

Television:

Simpsons, Futurama, Daily Show, Colbert Report, The West Wing, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Fawlty Towers, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Black Books

Books:

This could be a long list and one that is subject to change, but some permanent favorites include:
Kurt Vonnegut, ANYTHING by Vonnegut. But especially Cat's Cradle, Sirens of Titan, and Slaughterhouse-5 (of course.)
Douglas Adams - HHGTTG is wonderful, but the Dirk Gently books are his real underrated genius.
Richard Russo - Straight Man
George Orwell - anything and everything
Robert Heinlein - Stranger in a Strange Land
Joseph Heller - Catch-22
Nick Hornby - High Fidelity; girls, if you want a look inside the boy brain - read this book!
Robert Anton Wilson - Illuminatus!, The New Inquisition, The Schrodingers Cat trilogy, Masks of the Illuminati, Reality is What You Can Get Away With
Lewis Carroll's brilliant Alice books
Roald Dahl's everything, though they get juicier as his intended audience gets older - his adult books like Switch Bitch and My Uncle Oswald - are riotous
Norton Juster - The Phantom Tollbooth - Milo's quest for the Princesses Rhyme and Reason in the Lands Beyond should be mandatory childhood reading, and if you're grown up now and missed it as a kid, it should me mandatory adult reading, too
John Gribbin - In Search of Schrodinger's Cat and In Search of Schrodinger's Kittens; these make quantum theory accessible to tiny minds like mine
William Shirer - The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich; such an incredibly rich and well written history that about half way through, when the war is going well for Hitler, one finds oneself growing worried that the Nazis might actually win this thing
Donald Jack - The 8 book Bandy Chronicles, about the funniest thing Canadian lit has to offer
The Oxford English Dictionary - which I don't actually own a copy of yet, but which is my desert island book nonetheless
All things Far Side, Calvin & Hobbes, Doonesbury

Heroes:

My Kids

My Blog

Did you know there was an election going on?

So the eight or nine people who still wander over this way know that I have not been too up on current events lately. What with the upheaval in my personal life and the sense of inevitable Armageddon...
Posted by yet another dave on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 05:39:00 PST

Talking of books...

A bit of synchronicity always piques my interest, and I discovered just such a bit a moment or two ago. Having just written a blog touching on the subjects of EBay and bookselling, I turn to my city'...
Posted by yet another dave on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:16:00 PST

obladioblada

Life goes on, right?I have no words, no interests, no passion. It's distressing, to be sure, but reassuring, too, because I seem to have no depression, either. My extreme emotional swings are minimi...
Posted by yet another dave on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 05:13:00 PST

Breaking Boxes

This is something: I went to a basketball game yesterday. That's only something if you know my overall attitude toward professional sports, which is less than favourable. I haven't been to a profess...
Posted by yet another dave on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:45:00 PST

Old Dave New Dave Red Dave Blue Dave

I want to clear something up: I'm a fickle son of a bitch, prone to sudden mood shifts and even more sudden changes of mind. So I'm keeping my blog open, self-indulgence intact. It occurred to me th...
Posted by yet another dave on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 06:53:00 PST

Repost: because its the only poem I ever wrote and liked and now has meaning for me again

WARNING: I am not a poet and this is only a sort of a poem, I wrote this bit of drivel but do not pretend to understand it entirely. For the most part it ignores meter rhyme and reason. It was writ...
Posted by yet another dave on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:43:00 PST

Fixing the Holes

I'm done with geopolitics for awhile. Done with the world. Fuck it, I figure. It was fucked up long before I took an interest and will be fucked up longer after my interest failed to...
Posted by yet another dave on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 09:32:00 PST

The Great Leap Forward

As some old sage once put it: "shit happens." Another old sage, a smarter and wiser one, later amended that bit of wisdom. "Shit happens," the second sage agreed, "but shit happens for a reason." My...
Posted by yet another dave on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 05:54:00 PST

Oh, me! Oh, my! Oh, Myanmar!

It's blogging for Burma day. It took me all day to do it (while looking after some children, of course) because I didn't know how to talk about it. In the end I was unhappy with it, but posted it an...
Posted by yet another dave on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 02:31:00 PST

Burmese Days, and not the happy go lucky Orwellian kind

Tomorrow the world's bloggers stand in solidarity for the people of Burma, or Myanmar, depending on which news station you watch. Thousand of us will be writing something about Burma tomorrow, and I ...
Posted by yet another dave on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 03:17:00 PST