Been doing this writing stuff as a pro for the past sixteen years or so, and I’ve discovered one thing that just never gets any easier. Now it may look like, occasionally, I’m doing several things at once. That’s never really the case, you can’t really write two things simultaneously. Read more…
Via Futurismic, we have a post on The Long Tail blog. The post is a reflection on economies where creating the supply of the goods is its own reward. Take acting, for instance: The thing about acting is that the labor force (actors) actually value the ability to do work Read more…
Otherwise I would have been live blogging my ordeal the last two days of 2008. Just as well, as while I did end up riding an ambulance to the ER with chest pains and being admitted to the hospital overnight, turns out that here wasn’t much wrong other than severe Read more…
Welcoming 2009 with video WTFery, with thanks to my friend Keith.
No contest here. It is one thing to say something so idiotic that it tears a hole in the fabric of the universe, or to be so oblivious to your own failings that you apparently inhabit your own Bizzaro World where the most logical form of defense is to pound Read more…
The name Cassie Edwards first graced this blog on January 7, 2008 shortly after she was outed as a serial plagiarist by the Smart Bitches, and for several months afterward she provided a source of unintentional hilarity both on this blog and across the whole blogosphere. Here is an NY Read more…
Dear Author again graces us with examples of the paleolithic thinking of the old media. The upshot is, the NY Times thinks used bookstores are the reason publishing is in a crisis right now. Yeah, right. This is the true sign of a crisis, when the old guard suddenly tries Read more…
A running theme amoung the asshats I honor on my blog is the repeated attempts to stifle the speech of people the asshat doesn’t agree with. Few have gone to such hysterical lengths to shut someone up as our favorite paranoid islamophobic Islamic Studies professor, Denise Spellberg. First gracing this Read more…
One prevalent characteristic of the most entertaining asshats is the tendency to have pathologically extreme reactions to perceived slights that end up being more destructive to the asshat in question than their intended target. Not just foot in mouth, but foot, leg, and torso in an ever-diminishing spiral that vanishes Read more…
It takes a special kind of asshat to fly from Europe to Manhattan on your employer’s dime, to attend a phantom meeting, and spend the trip getting plastered. Special indeed, if you get caught at it by a bartender who blogs about it, and it’s the blogger who gets fired Read more…