Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has asked its editors to stop buying manuscripts. From Pubisher’s Weekly: Josef Blumenfeld, v-p of communications for HMH, confirmed that the publisher has “temporarily stopped acquiring manuscripts” across its trade and reference divisions. The directive was given verbally to a handful of executives and, according to Blumenfeld, is Read more…
Perhaps you remember my post about this wonderful website brought to my attention by the Smart Bitches. That post was well intentioned, if completely clueless. Now the Smart Bitches have highlighted an equally craptastic post of a bit more sinister bent. I present to you “Got The Thing In Becoming Read more…
No time to blog much. So here’s some surrealism for you (much more surreal if you don’t know German and have fond memories of Sesame Street.) (via Weird Universe.)
Last Friday I posted, among other things, that we should really start worrying when stores start taking cigarettes and booze in lieu of cash for payment. A 27-year-old Florida man named Shawn Alexander Pannullo apparently has had a crisis of faith in the economy, as he was busted trying use Read more…
To keep myself from writing too many depressing political posts in my blog in a row, I’m going to break things up by posting a few videos. First off is a video I came across independently via Galleycat and Whatever. It shows us that, indeed, Tom Cat are serious cat. Read more…
This has been flying under the radar unless you’re like me and you follow uber-geek podcasts like I do. However, the US government has been quietly pressuring our friends and allies to sign on to a lil treaty called ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. This is the wonderful little piece Read more…
Just a note on a little experiment I am doing. One of the useful bits I got from Context (aside from reminding various people that I still exist) was a talk on effective blogging given by Toby Buckell. One of many points he made was the idea that regularity was Read more…
As we watch ignore the proceedings of the Democratic National Convention, I think it is time to reflect on the nominee who could have been. I am talking about a candidate of vision, of character, of purpose. A candidate who could have been a historic first if not for the Read more…
This video is making the rounds, so I figured why not? Somewhere in my heart, I really hope this is a satire. . .