cheeseburgerbrown's Diaries
Print Story Straight Teeth Are So-o-o-o Bourgeoisie
Health
By CheeseburgerBrown (Mon Jan 28, 2008 at 12:20:45 PM EST) (all tags)
On Friday night I was sitting at the piano with my daughter when my son decided to attempt a flying leap from the couch onto my back. He missed. He dropped just short of me, his little hands clawing at my shoulders, and then caught the full impact of his fall with his upper jaw on the edge of the bench.

Blood? Oh yes. Plenty of that.

His left-side upper incisor was canted about forty-five degrees forward, and the tooth to the left of that was pushed about twenty degrees backward. This rearrangement left a gaping open wound behind the incisor, and it was this hole through which most of the blood was coming.

So, now he looks English.

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Print Story Cloverfield: A Brief Review
Media
By CheeseburgerBrown (Wed Jan 23, 2008 at 09:16:30 PM EST) (all tags)
There are no spoilers in the body copy.

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Print Story Darmok and Jilad at Tanagra
Cars
By CheeseburgerBrown (Mon Jan 21, 2008 at 03:31:47 PM EST) (all tags)
Sokath, his eyes uncovered!

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Print Story Curse of the Weekend Filmmaker
Working life
By CheeseburgerBrown (Thu Jan 10, 2008 at 04:06:43 PM EST) (all tags)
Why do people hire experts and then ignore their advice? Further: is the condition treatable with medication, patient explanations and/or violence?

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Print Story For Want of Sock
Diary
By CheeseburgerBrown (Sun Nov 25, 2007 at 01:46:54 PM EST) (all tags)
Doing laundry at my house is like shovelling coal.

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Print Story Not Dead Yet
Diary
By CheeseburgerBrown (Tue Nov 20, 2007 at 03:51:36 PM EST) (all tags)
I continue to surprise myself by failing to expire or spontaneously combust. Details beneath the fold.

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Print Story Single-handedly Saving the World
Misc.
By CheeseburgerBrown (Sat Oct 06, 2007 at 01:36:32 PM EST) (all tags)
My colleague and I carpool, and are thereby single-handedly saving the world. Suck it, sinners.

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Print Story My People are Strange
Family
By CheeseburgerBrown (Sun Sep 09, 2007 at 05:04:25 PM EST) (all tags)
Capgras Syndrome causes its victims to believe, in moments or as marathons, that people they know and love have been replaced by evil alien replicons from beyond the moon, identical to the originals in every respect save the intuited fact that they are, in truth, imposters.

People who suffer from Capgras are crazy, like Super Mario's brother Luigi.

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Print Story Some Fan Expo 2007 Photos
Sci-Fi
By CheeseburgerBrown (Sun Aug 26, 2007 at 09:09:35 AM EST) (all tags)
Team CBB is just moments from rushing out the door for SciFi Con Day III, but a smattering of Littlestar's photos from Days I and II are below the fold.

I don't have time for captioning so I'll just let the photos speak for themselves for the most part.

Highlights include Popsicle with the stormtroopers; the awesome, stunned expression on Isosceles Cat's face after checking out He-Man; and me getting a hug from the Sexual Harassment Panda.


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Print Story Rejected!
Wizards and Hobbits
By CheeseburgerBrown (Thu Aug 23, 2007 at 03:15:21 PM EST) (all tags)
For the past year or so I've been writing for a local rural newspaper. My latest contribution, however, has been rejected on the grounds that the subject matter might be "too upsetting" for the sensitive people of our town.

Judge for yourself:

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