Hiatus #2
I’m sorry followers, but yet again I am taking a hiatus from blogging. For various reasons–mostly because I’m busy with me novel and other endeavors–I am taking a sabbatical from writing on Continue reading
April Fools
There is a long, and some may say, useless, history to April Fools. For some reason we all think it is cute to be dickheads when spring starts…
Are you Afraid of This?
First, the father: Now, the son… We thought he’d be better. We thought he’d be more calm, less militaristic and perhaps even diplomatic. But, if you’ve been keeping up on the news Continue reading
Write for F*ckssake!
I don’t know what to write about today, so I probably shouldn’t write, right? But I’m trying to stay positive, using all that MFA-positivism bollox which says that, like a Tony Robbins Continue reading
Social Change on Social Media
Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook stated in an interview: “I often say inside the company that my goal was never to just create a company [...] what not being just Continue reading
Star Man: Neil deGrasse Tyson
A little over a year ago I saw a man at a hotel bar and for a moment I was positive I knew who it was. After working up the Continue reading
The Introvert List
I am an introvert. I have known this for quite a long time. How do I know? I don’t know, you just do. But, to prove it, perhaps I should Continue reading
Eating: Overrated?
I can be a hassle sometimes. Spending precious hours and dollars just to keep your body running and alive. If you’re strapped for cash or chronically poor, often you must Continue reading
Fully Torqued – A Review
They’ve been called “Jethro Tull meets Deliverance,” and likened to “the family from Texas Chainsaw Massacre if they picked up some instruments and formed a band,” but most that know Continue reading
“Woah, Big Gulps, huh?”
Today Justice Milton A. Tingling Jr. of the New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan invalidated New York City’s proposed limits on large sugary drinks. What exactly does that mean? Continue reading
Brief Fiction – “Raymond”
You know, all I ever do on here is write gibberish and opinionated crud. Today I don’t think I’ll do that. Instead I’m going to write some fiction. It’s what Continue reading
Workers of the World…
In a previous post, “Mind the Gap” I discussed the impact the inequality of wealth could have on our democracy. Today I watched a video that clearly and succinctly shows just how Continue reading
10 Ways to Get More Traffic to Your Blog
This is a satirical piece, not meant to actually be taken seriously, but instead to produce giggles, guffaws and all around general merriment. But if you want to follow this Continue reading
The Rise of the Caesars
Late Friday night President Obama signed into law budget legislation that cuts federal spending across many agencies. As The New York Times reported: “Mr. Obama formally triggered spending cuts that Continue reading
For the Record
As Jina Moore pointed out in the title of a Slate article today, “Don’t blame the victim, or the photographer.” She was referencing the odd discussion that has arisen over Sara Naomi Lewkowicz‘s photographic pieces on Time Continue reading
Slow it Down – Part Deux
You may recall two days ago an article I shared concerning CAS, or “Copyright Alert System,” which promises “to combat Internet piracy [...] subscribers who illegally share movies or songs could Continue reading
Bleeding For More
“There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, Continue reading
Slow it Down
I don’t have time today for my usual semi-literate and half-rounded post. So instead I will just share some recent news that I think is pertinent to us all. I first read about it on Continue reading
Snow
I think the snow has finally stopped. It’s still coming down but now only in little granules like a fine mist, the final seal on a frozen world like a spray Continue reading
Countdown to Extinction
“The 20th century gave us nuclear bombs and weaponized smallpox. The 21st will surely deliver a greater variety of bioweapons. The prospect of a natural killer like the influenza virus adapting to Continue reading
Getting That Dream job
As I was cruising the the internet, as I’m wont to do on occasion, I came across this: Clever, no? The caption on the photo was this: “This is my Continue reading
Gingers Have More Fun
The New Yorker calls him our time’s Gogol. According to Avi Steinberg, his “comic universe is populated by [...] warped loners: characters who cling to their positions in the world Continue reading
On the Road Again…
“…the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, Continue reading
Fire Sermons
I was browsing through The Atlantic‘s website today and hit on a piece featuring photography from 1963. Among the photos is one I have chosen to use as the featured image on Continue reading
From the Heart
In honor of Valentine’s Day, a holiday commemorating a priest who was clubbed and beheaded by the Roman Empire, I would like to return back to the age when Romantic love was Continue reading
Thank You
Mark Twain once said: “I don’t care much for gratitude of the noisy, boisterous kind. Why, when some men discharge an obligation, you can hear the report for miles around.” This Continue reading
Mind the Gap
About a week ago Eric Alterman wrote a piece in The Nation reacting to Barack Obama’s inauguration speech. Many have called the speech tantamount to Obama declaring a liberal manifesto; as the The New Continue reading
8 Days a Week
Today is Monday, perhaps the most hated and reviled day of the week. So much so that it has bred its own form of quasi-illness; it is now the norm Continue reading
Sextremism
“Ere now have I journeyed to the land of Phrygia, rich in vines, and there I saw in multitudes the Phrygian warriors, masters of glancing steeds, even the people of Continue reading
The Reefer
Pot, ganja, skunk weed, jazz cigarette, kif, bhang, 420, Mary Jane, cannabis, chronic, dagga, zambi, yerba, weed, Thai stick, skunk, mota, shwag, sinsemilla, marijuana… Cannabis-sativa has about as many names as Continue reading
