Subtle Bluntness

So displayed at my place of employment are a couple of very large, very prominent posters for a thing called Abbey Road on the River.  Basically, it’s a 5-day orgy of Beatles fans watching a five-stage barrage of Beatles tribute/cover bands, most of whom don’t try to look like The Beatles.  It’s been around for [...]

So people send me DVDs.  I write reviews of them and link to them.  People read them and tell me I suck or that I am awesome.  If they tell me I’m awesome, I know they’re smart and handsome people.  If they tell me I suck, I know that they should probably be issued helmets [...]

So this week I’ve managed to dig my way out of a gigantic pile of freelance work.  I’m one of the unlucky folks who simply can’t get started without a lot of time pressure, so that means that in a few short days I’ve driven myself to make a list of projects and actually finish [...]

Well, I’m just everywhere these days.  You know my other places that I write by now, but perhaps you don’t know the latest place I’m doing DVD reviews at.  It’s called Kiwibox, and it’s like a social networking/magazine thing.  The magazine part is what I’m mostly there for.
Either way, they get DVDs in for reviewing [...]

Lots of wonderful people are having issues with their employment.  They’re not happy with it, they might be losing it, they’re looking for new work, they’re stressed out and irritated and grumpy.  In this economy… hell, in this world, I can completely empathize.  People aren’t happy all over.

I’m not sure this is a happy song, [...]

Lots of stuff to link to today, boys and girls, with lots of big stuff happening all over the eBays for your old buddy Ron. First of all, I’ve got a new gig over at Den of Geek, doing the weekend box-office roundup. Here’s the first of what will probably be many to [...]

My paper copies of the brilliant MicroMart issue 1004 arrived safely to my doorstep today, thanks in no small part to the US Mail. Now when people tell me I suck and can’t write good, I’ll be able to wave my magazine in their collective face and say, “Ha! Turns out I can [...]

So, for those of you who aren’t in Louisville, which is all of you, there’s been what meteorologists are calling “a metric fuckton” of snow today. It started on my drive home and continues, albeit less forcefully, at this very moment. The projected total is somewhere between 4-8 inches of snow, plus sleet, [...]

At work on Friday I had an observation while watching TV in the break room.
The only time I’ve ever heard a Trans-Siberian Orchestra song on TV, it’s been in that Miller Lite commercial that we’ve all seen a million times. You know the one: the house with all the Christmas lights, synchronized to [...]

“Graphic designer needed for the Nashville Tennessean. No knowledge of HTML required, obviously, since we can’t even HTML our job posting correctly, or even be bothered to go back through and strip out the code automatically inserted by Microsoft Word. While our job posting can look like hot diarrhea straight out of 2girls1cup, [...]