Subtle Bluntness

I had a friend of mine who started a nascent music blog a few weeks ago.  He recently tracked me down and asked me a bunch of questions about blogging.  It’s no secret that most of my friends know I get paid to maintain blogs and that I’ve gotten a couple of freelance articles published.  [...]

I have a question for my fellow NaBloPoMofos out there.   Since you started posting daily, have you noticed a sharp uptick in traffic for your blog?  I certainly have.  Whether it’s from my posts being better in content or due to the magic of regular and steady updates, my blog has gone up pretty sharply [...]

One of the things I tend to do on weekends, despite myself, is completely disconnect from everything not related to sports or bad TV movies on the Sci-Fi Channel.  I’ll read my friends’ blogs (usually all at once late at night when I’ve got free time), but other than that I don’t really pay attention [...]

Sometimes I feel like NaBloPoMo is a great thing, because it’s making me flex my creative muscles in a way that isn’t related to gadgets, sports, geekery, or cats riding vacuums.  Other times, I feel like it’s a terrible thing because by the time I get done with gadgets, sports, unusual stuff, and this, I [...]

It’s kind of amazing to me when you write something and it affects people.  Whether it affects them in a deep and emotional way, like yesterday’s post, or if it irritates them by criticizing their favorite game, like that time all those people told me I suck and should die in a fire. I’m kind [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot about bloggers and blogging.  I read something somewhere about how our little writing hobby is becoming Serious Business for companies, and I know personally some of the folks I’ve worked with have had the goal of turning blogs into cash via social media and the like.  That’s all well and [...]

I’ve decided to finally get to work on transferring the old movie reviews from my extensive and complicated archives system to browsable blog posts (like I started to do when I first made this blog back in May 2006).  This is going to be a big pain in the rear end, especially since Living Corpse [...]

At the moment I’m playing a video game, reading a movie review, watching MST3K on my laptop, and on the TV is Nightmare on Elm Street 2 (the gayest movie in history) from FearNet On Demand.  I am not sated.  None of this is doing anything to make me any less bored, antsy, and generally [...]

I sat down today to do another post for NaBloWriMo. Lately, I’ve been playing World of Warcraft again, because of some zombie-related fun they’ve had tied into their forthcoming expansion, Wrath of the Lich King. Basically, zombies are everywhere in Azeroth, you can kill them for cash and prizes, and you’ll read more about that [...]

I have a friend who, for the last eight years, has asked me every November, “Hey Ron, are you doing NaNoWriMo?”  I usually respond with something witty like, “No, but your mom is doing the 82nd Airborne!  BOOM!”  That doesn’t make anyone in the discussion laugh but me, and once again, I’m reminded that my [...]