Apparently I’m a scholar — or at least some people think so. If so, it’s news to me–but the citations are sure flattering!… Read the rest
Year: 2004 (Page 3 of 18)
Personally, I like turning off the monitor and just typing blind for awhile.
43 Folders: Hack your way out of writer’s block… Read the rest
What if we turned everything that’s currently red into purple?… Read the rest
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” ~Philip K. Dick
… and some other choice irreligious quotes from George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, and Abraham Lincoln, on this useful page: Evolution vs. Intelligent Design Theory… Read the rest
I love this rollicking review of Tom Wolfe’s new novel, I Am Charlotte Simmons. As background, he talks about Wolfe’s earlier exhortations to American novelists: “‘A battalion, a brigade of Zolas’ is what we need, Wolfe evangelized, then put on his dress-white uniform, screwed on his bayonet, and went screaming into the hills.… Read the rest
Just realized that I’ve been writing this blog for 5 years — my first post was November 4, 1999, using Blogger — quite the novelty at the time. I blogged pretty regularly up until April 2000, then sporadically for the rest of that year (and, sadly, much of the archives from mid-late 2000 got lost at some point).… Read the rest
Is it just me, or is Sen. Orrin Hatch (R.-Utah) seeming more and more like one of those unstoppable monster-movie zombies that just keeps coming at you no matter how many times you knock him down?
Wired News: Senate May Ram Copyright Bill… Read the rest
By popular demand: Clara’s “bad face” costume for Halloween. Here she is with Mara, the purple princess.… Read the rest
Michelle Goldberg’s longish piece in Salon is the most thoughtful reaction to the whole Red State-Blue State divide that I’ve seen yet: If at first you don’t secede. Honestly, I’m a bit irritated by the recent flood of gratuitous fuck-yous and pathetic disavowals; both seem divisive and unproductive to me, and on top of that, they make progressives look like a bunch of mean-spirited, foul-mouthed poor losers.… Read the rest
The onslaught of comment spam on my Movable Type blog finally made me scream uncle: I switched to WordPress this weekend. MT is an amazingly flexible tool, but it is slow, slow, slow, and it’s not set up well to deal with comment spam.… Read the rest