The Blork Blog

For the holidays I go to some non-descript town in central France, possibly a suburb of Lyon. I’m hanging out and staying in a small stucco house that has only three or four rooms. My mother is there, which is odd as she died more than 20 years ago. I stay out all night at [...]

A year ago I won a DVD player at my company’s Christmas party. In the spring I won a Palm Pilot at a trade show. In the summer I knocked $600 off the already-cheap price of my laptop just by waiting a few minutes. Last week I won ten bucks in the Super 7 lottery. [...]

It’s an odd time of year for a lot of people, myself included. For many there is a predictable ritual of holiday shopping, trips home to see family,  and time away from work. For others there is the crush of loneliness, as they witness these elusive rituals played out by others but not themselves. I’m [...]

“I told ya. I’m not gonna get killed for ya.” (Isabelle Adjani to Ryan O’Neal in The Driver [1978]) In the next scene she takes a .38 slug to the noggin. This movie was on The Lame Movie Channel tonight, and it was great, described somewhere rather accurately as “an existential car chase movie.” None [...]

CamWorld has a lot to say about SPAM and how to protect yourself from it. Look for the posting from December 16, 2001. (I found this through mikel.) The National Post has an interesting article about Osama bin Laden’s Boston-based brother, Abdullah, and what it’s like to have the name "bin Laden" on your credit [...]

Spring comes slowly, teasing us with melting snow and glimpses of wet greenery over the course of weeks. Winter, however (and by this I mean practical winter which doesn’t necessarily correspond to calendar winter), comes in a matter of hours with the first significant snowfall. Suddenly the air is colder and icy upon the ears, [...]

I’ve never seen the Oliver Stone film “The Doors” until tonight, even though it popped out of Hollywood’s ass some ten years ago. I tend to resist whatever is the current big thing (which is why I haven’t read any Harry Potter books nor plan to for at least 9-1/2 years). I come to these [...]