Author: Mark Egge

Sitting, slumped in my chair, I can see the wet, heavy spring snow falling outside. Snow. At seventy degrees it was 2:00 and I walked to work in a t-shirt. At fifty degrees it was darkening and the four of us went out for a walk. At dark, the rain started to fall. At forty-five […]

I thought I’d post the music video for The Decemberists’ Sixteen Military Wives, which I found quite enjoyable. If you enjoy Wes Anderson, you’ll certainly enjoy this:

It’s snowing outside. Yeah, that’s right. After four days of playing Ultimate until 11:30 at night, today it decides to snow. Fortunately, none of its sticking and it’s pretty warm– I suppose I should be happy because snow = precipitation and precipitation = a greener Bozeman, but just the same I’m going to complain. =P […]

William asked a great question yesterday. He asked, “why is the flag at half-mast?” Thinking about it, he answered his own question, “oh, it must be because the Pope died.” A week after the death of the Pope, the flags are still at half-mast. If the flags had been down for a day or two, […]

Hotel Rowanda I want so much to say “go see this film,” but I can’t. No, instead with all my sincerity I would say do not see this film. Why not? Because it’s well done. Because it does what seems to an accurately appalling job of depicting the full immensity of humanity’s inhumanity. Don’t see […]