The other night I was driving home from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and I was going down the Bennington bypass at about 11:30 at night when I saw the rear half of a deer in the middle of the road. The other half had become fist-sized chunks of meat and sprayed blood over the course of 50 yards of highway. The sight was both disgusting and disturbing. Puts all of life into perspective for you. One minute you are enjoying life, frolicking in a field, the next minute your better half has, for lack of a better word, been vaporized by a Mack truck going 65 miles per hour. Makes you think.

Speaking of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, man it was like Revenge of the Nerds in the theater, and the biggest nerds seemed to be sitting right behind me, speaking loudly about DOS emulators, Mega Man games, LotRs LARPs and whatnot. I’ve never heard a grown man quite so excited to see if his friends have read the latest Foxtrot.

Of course I was there in the theater with them, alone, so what does that say about me?