I think the real magic of Star Wars is that despite these flaws, and numerous others, it’s still amazing. Fingers crossed that J.J. tightens the story and keeps the magic alive.

Cancer’s one of those catchalls, but I think we’re going to see profound treatments/cures for certain kinds of cancer coming online soon. It’s our moonshot. More money, more intelligence, and more computing power is being put into a cure than in almost any other initiative out there. There are going to be profound…

Notice the careful use of chile and chili. I love both, but Colorado green chili smothered over chile rellenos is legit.

I’m not saying I have super senses, but I do, and there’s nothing I dread more than airports/airplanes. I’m the guy you want out in the woods or field of battle with you... I can sense animals/people at 1,000 yards, tell you when milk goes bad days before you yourself can tell, and just “feel” things... and getting on…

Casa Bonita is very much real. It’s like Mecca for suburbanites. When you have children there comes a point where you make the Haj and head out for awesome sopapillas, cliff diving, and diarrhea. :-)

Food at Coors is great. The great green chili debate... it’s actually two different things — New Mexicans put green chilies on everything. But green chili is a Colorado deal and La Loma’s green is the best.

Marvel movie verse. I’ve always been more a DC guy and I was surprised I liked the first Iron Man, but they’ve been losing me a bit at a time. Didn’t see Iron Man 3, Thor 2, Avengers 2, and probably won’t see Ant Man.

Terry Brooks for me, left at book five in my teens, don’t want to return for fear they won’t be as good as I remember.

Both. The average moves slowly up in a zig-zag pattern. If you live in the Middle East, arguably one of the worst times to be alive, and challenges coming for India and China that are significant, but we’re probably five years out from truly curing cancer.

I was joking about Casa, but no love for Coors Field? I forgot to mention La Loma for the best green chili in Colorado. Screw you New Mexico.

I submit for your consideration: Best of the West

This is a photo of my great-great grandfather. He fought for the South during the Civil War. (Pvt. John T. Appler, 4th Missouri infantry.) His uniform is on permanent display at the Missouri History Museum. I dearly love museums and so it’s kinda cool to have a relative’s uniform in a museum. I understand my family’s…

I know this is “Space Habitat” week and so it’s about habitats humans can live in, in space, but like most life on earth, if you want to survive you create incredibly small versions of yourself that can live in harsh environments and you scatter them into the wind/wild and hope one takes. When we can find a way to…

When will this be considered “sacred” text? Totally what sparked my interest in biology and anthropology.

You know what’s not on this list and never will be made insignificant?

I like this article. When I was a kid I was determined to photograph a spaceship. My mom got mad eventually and said “no” to more expensive film development of endless sky shots, most of them pitch black because it was night. The heavens are a natural meeting place of the unknown and known and therefore fertile ground…

Some of us knew all along...

Totally forgot that. Thats funny.

Exactly. Hollywood is like Taco Bell, same five ingredients mixed in different ways. As Warren Ellis said, “Bond is the new Bond girl.” Dude is brilliant.

But maybe it’s not sexist at all... there are men (and women) who give fuck all about protecting innocence (children, nature — animals, ecosystems, minorities) and those early Hollywood writers went after heartless men, not that all men were/are heartless, and now that has shifted to heartless women. Heartlessness…