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“Egotism is nature’s compensation for mediocrity.”
As we all know, Kanye is a self-absorbed waterhead without a thought filter on his mouth. His stupid interruption of the WMA awards revealed his coarseness. Everything that could have been said about...
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The Almighty Buck
The Columbia Journalism of Review is running a great piece about the ridiculous heights network TV newsreader salaries have reached. To wit: …Katie Couric’s annual salary is more than the entire annual...
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Up, Up, and Away
This is why I’m glad I don’t own a television. We’re quickly becoming a nation of dangerous attention whores.
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Intercasses Incognites
I now believe I have found the strangest site on the internet. Where an adult can be a kid?
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‘Tis better to have loved and lost
Part the First Wherein our hero decides to undertake a large book A year ago I ordered A Distant Mirror, Barbara Tuchman’s epic non-fiction account of the “calamitous 14th century.” A few days later...
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Enter Title Here
Here’s where I prepare a topic sentence to introduce an entire paragraph leading up to an obscure subject. Here’s where I talk about how long I’ve been in the blog game. Here’s where I talk about my...
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Ruffled Feathers
Here’s a bizarre example of big-media fear of internet sharing: This error message pops up on an embedded a video of ducks being knocked over by the wind accompanied (inexplicably) by Nas’ Hate Me Now....
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Stretch 2
Hey, kids, if you haven’t heard, my buddy Dave Colon is putting out issue 2 of Stretch magazine, his own home-grown literary mag. Yours truly has submitted an original piece of terrible fiction, along...
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Excise Taxonomy
Mozilla’s highlight and right-click search is an indispensable part of my browsing. When I’m reading text and I come across a strange word or reference that’s way over my head, I right-click, search it...
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Advice to a Young Writer
Caveat: I am a terrible writer. I am also a bastard. Dear _____, After reading your story, I’ll give you some blunt advice. Your story needs to be re-written. It feels like a first draft and is not...
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