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The musings on life, love, and the world around us by an aspiring author and unrequited lover. There's also a bunch of odd short stories, mostly of the humorous and weird variety. Still have faith in my generation's forays into literature? ... After
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TV Season 2009-2010: I Can Feel My Brain Eating Itself!
Hey there, blog-o-net. Worried that I'd forget you yet again after taking just over a week to write another post? Of course you were. That's only natural. Without your regular Spiral Reverie fix, you might start developing healthy sleeping habits, ma...
An Evolutionary Snapshot of Wizardry
So, it's the dead of summer and it's not always easy to come up with compelling blog material. Naturally, I don't have this problem (Ignore the month-long break I just conveniently took and my generally slower blogging pace in recent months. Those ar...
Pushing Up Daisies
The end of another week, time for another blog post. (I have another science-related one planned for the next of the month next week.) This time, I talk pop culture - in particular, yet another great show that was recently canceled. After a long dela...
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien + E3 Day One
I'm going to update this post a little later tonight with more thoughts, but rather than another liveblog, I've just opted to tweet about it on Twitter while it's airing.Overall, it was a fantastic premiere. The show opened with Conan checking off a ...
Animazement 2009: Wait, What?
I said there'd be another post this week, and here it is. There'll probably be at least another shorter one next week too, in addition to the usual one.This time, I talk about what's exhausted me this weekend! (Exciting, no? Relevant, no? What do you...
Bite My Shiny Metal Ass
Just like that, the end of the week's rolled around already. I suppose this means it's time for me to write another one of these blog things, what with that whole crazy idea of providing regular new content. (Consistent only in its inconsistency, of ...
Spring is for Nerds (Except the Allergy Part)
Hey there again, internet world.Where was I this past week, you ask?Focused on other things, of course, so I kinda took an impromptu week's vacation from updating here. (I've also been a bit under the weather since Saturday, so I haven't been feeling...
Late Night with Conan O'Brien Final Episode Liveblog
After 16 years on the air, Late Night with Conan O'Brien comes to a close tonight. Conan will be moving on to California, where he'll be taking over The Tonight Show, as Jay Leno moves on to a new 10:30 PM show. The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien wi...
Life Sucks, and then You Die. And then it still sucks.
Funny. I intended to slow things down considerably this week, and here I am typing out a second entry, with a third one planned for the end of the week. The wonders of actually having material I feel like blogging about.This time, I'm actually right ...
Film for Lovers: Last Life in the Universe
Well, I've killed all of you with an overdose of my blogging. Good going, me! See what happens when you get too much of a good thing? Good thing it's so easy to reanimate people into zombies incapable of cognition beyond reading this blog. It's all a...
Film for Lovers: Before Sunset
It's past midnight and I'm back at the keyboard again, so you know what that means. That's right! Time to blind you with science- I mean another Valentine's season movie review post. Tonight's post is the fourth and next-to-last of the series, preced...
Film for Lovers: Before Sunrise
Egad, a third daily entry in a row. How is this even possible? Science, my friends, it's only science. (And also magic, but keep that on the down-low.)Tonight, we've arrived at part three of my five-part series of posts on noteworthy generally non-ma...
Film for Lovers: The Baxter
What's this? A new Spiral Reverie entry less than 24 hours later? What happened to the usual 2+ week gap!? I haven't had enough time to prepare! Believe me, I'm as surprised as you are.Of course, now we're in the midst of a series of posts on good Va...
Film for Lovers: Paris Je T'aime
So yeah, as I said last week, I was planning on doing a series of posts on love-themed cinema for Valentine's Day this year. Of course, V-Day's in only three days now, so I'm a little late in getting to that. (I've been keeping myself distracted with...
Let's Enjoy! The Last Blog Entry of 2008
Before we could realize it (Before it really hit me, anyway, having been under the weather on and off this month. Presently relishing the fact that my voice is still functional.), New Year's Eve crept up on us again. What a year it's been, so much ha...
TV Season 2008-2009: The Choking Stench of Entertainment
Yes, a year has indeed passed already, and it's that time again! Ramblings about things to view on your moving picture box for the next eight months to properly numb your brain! Clearly, this is just what you come to this blog for - am I right, or am...
Sweatin' to the Not-So-Oldies
Like it or not, I'm still here, and after nearly a couple of weeks, you can bet I'm ready to ramble. Will I give you something meaningful, perhaps touching? Maybe something that'll move you on some personal level, or even just some stupid jokes to di...
Ending Eras in Geekdom
Yes, it was one of the content-lightest months here yet, I know. Not that I know how many of you are paying all that much attention to that, but then, hits don't matter. If they did, I probably wouldn't bother writing at all. It's all about chance - ...
I will play for you Forest Funk
I took another short hiatus to focus on other things here, but I've returned at last to write what will probably be the last post of April here. (Maybe I'll fit another one in before we hit May, no guarantees.) Still trying to finish that novel, afte...
Life like Frames in a Film Reel
Is this blog dead!?NO! It's just sleeping. Or it was, anyway. Novel-writing and all that. I've run out of steam, motivation, and topics to write on in regards to my usual content in here, which you all know and love. (As reflected by the few of you w...
Can I interest you ladies in some dungeons and mayhaps even some sort of dragons?
Feels like it's been forever, eh? (Just pretend.) I've been kind of burnt out and uninspired when it comes to blogging this past week after an unusually productive February in that regard. (Not to mention a rather messy GRE day last week.)Like most n...
Let's Informing!
We're almost to the end of February already. Time flies, does it not? (I don't see what having fun has to do with it. Why would anybody say that?)Suffice to say, I'm busy as ever. The grad school application process is stressful, particularly when lo...
I Hope You Can See This, Because I'm Doing It As Hard As I Can
Well, it's February now. A month that holds many meanings for many people - well, mostly two things: a shitty commercialized love holiday so saccharine and contrived that it threatens to not only make us all diabetic, but to make our jaws fall off, a...
This Week on Celebrity Autopsy
Thrills! Spills! Chills!Looks like that baby bump was a tumor after all!All the news you never wanted on your favorite celebrities and more - from beyond the grave!Naturally, you realize that give or take another year or two, a real TV show like this...
Spiral Reverie First Year End Extravaganza
Time for another entry with a title to properly build up your excitement in anticipation of drama, free prizes, and penguins!Unfortunately, this entry will contain neither of the three. Save your tears for a more worthy cause! Instead, you get to enj...
Struck Out and Synthetic Love
The political right wing here, as of recent years, has not been overly fond of respecting people's rights. Workers' rights in particular seem to be especially uncool, with all their efforts to support the dissolving of unions. It would seem that they...
That New TV Season Smell
It's in the air. Just step outside, waltz through the fallen leaves, and breathe deep the smells of autumn. That burning garbage smell, you ask? That's the smell of television production, young one. It's responsible for the extinction of another subs...
The Boy Who Lived, and that guy who died
These are chaotic times we live in. Violence and unrest plague the Middle East, AIDS is ravaging Africa, and Western civilization is beginning to crumble under the weight of its own self-righteousness and voracity for material wealth.Of course, there...
