Subtle Bluntness

For a song called “No Fun,” they all seem to be having a pretty good time hanging out and playing it.  Especially Iggy, which requires a quote from Trainspotting. Tommy:  Useless motherfucker, that’s what she called me.  I told her, I’m sorry, but these things happen.  Let’s put it behind us. Spud:  That’s fair enough. [...]

I have a love/hate affair with YouTube.  I love it, because I love instant access to a wide variety of weird videos, but I hate it because I’ll get sucked into searching, clicking on other links, and general aimless browsing for hours if I’m not careful.  For example, I was browsing the site when I [...]

Well, I try to avoid watching the news if I’m not in the mood to get angry.  Unfortunately, I don’t always control the remote, and by the time I got my hands on the power of Greyskull I was sucked into a CNN report about the increasing cost of college.  One of the most interesting [...]

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 [...]

I killed a bunch of demons in Space Goat Land. Man, I thought I was out of ideas a few days ago?  When I don’t actually do anything important or leave the house, I really run out of stuff to blog about.  I’ve gotten through this NaBloPoMo thing a lot easier than I ever thought [...]

This week, something bad happened.  The local FM sports radio station, 93.9 The Ticket, lost their press passes thanks to critical comments and the drive-time guy predicting that U of L would lose to Pitt (or something, hell if I know what the real reason is).  As they’re in a college town, if they can’t [...]

It’s cold and snowing outside.  This is my kind of weather.  There’s a brisk north wind, the snow is practically blowing sideways, and it’s just cold and sharp and definitively winter outside.  It’s days like today I wish I could have my life narrated by The Voice of God himself, John Facenda. Walking in slow [...]

When I left my place of employment today, what did I see fluttering and flying about in the air?  Snow, of course.  It looked like an explosion in a candy factory, and little white clumps of confectioner’s sugar and gel ignite were raining down everywhere. Somehow, I managed to resist the urge to careen through [...]

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 [...]