Dear me, things have gotten dull around here. Aside from seeing Star Wars (duh), some random gardening adventures, and the Robert Patrick/X-Files obsession, there really hasn’t been much new to report.

Not that having nothing to say usually stops me, but, well, this time it apparently did.

Did you know that Robert Patrick’s brother, Richard, was the guitar player for Nine Inch Nails before he left to become lead singer for Filter?

Now you do.

For the strange coincidences file: the hilarious post I read last month on the lost childhood science of dirt clods turns out to have been written by my nextdoor neighbor’s brother.

To take this a bit further, we’re also distantly related somehow.

None of us are, to my knowledge, related to Robert Patrick, who I still contend is way sexier than Mulder. (Despite the fact that Robert Patrick has sort of werewolfish-ears. Have you ever noticed that?)

[someday I might fix the links]