Shoutcast is cheering up my worklife immensely. (For those of you who don't know, I had a highly enjoyable Christmas with Leonard's family and am working part-time this week.) Instead of hoarding legal and enjoyable …

Gordon Atkinson has his Nativity story up, and a posthumous baptism discussion that is pretty cordial even if the word "libel" escapes my lips.

I am staying in San Francisco in the few days before New Year's, instead of visiting John, Susanna, and other Leonard family members in Utah. Sometimes the necessity of work is really argh. I really …

Aha! Roger Ebert reviews the original film and confirms that Phantom of the Opera isn't a huge deal.

Garments and fashion! Baptisms and mission policies! Brigham Young's Gandhi-like concern with home industry! I can see that Times and Seasons is opening LDS up to me in a highly interesting fashion.

I have probably 150 Amar Chitra Katha ("immortal picture stories") comic books, and have been reading ACK for as long as I can remember. I learned most of my Indian mythology from ACK and press …

We're also living in fear.

Advance tickets to the Egg/Cookie show are available and relatively cheap, and the show is fun. It's returning in January and February of 2005.

I need to update my menstruation products compare-and-contrast with new evidence (I first wrote it in April of 2002). In particular, perhaps I should research the "dioxin in tampons using bleached cotton" rumors. What reminds …

Leonard and I watched recorded episodes of House, M.D. last night. Hugh Laurie affects a grumpy US accent; otherwise I'd probably deem it trash. As it is I'm calling it my "guilty pleasure" because otherwise …