Subtle Bluntness

I was listening to the BS Report, that podcast that Bill Simmons does over at ESPN, and during his long conversation with Chris Connelly, they discussed some things that kind of piqued my interest.  Connelly mentioned the demise of the various industries and brand names, like sports, music, and particularly writing.  I’ll try to transcribe [...]

One of the weirdest feelings I’ve ever found myself experiencing happened to me today.  No, I didn’t make a prune and coffee smoothie again.  I was looking at a review of the Adult Swim In A Box DVD set on TV Squad and went to Wikipedia to look up one of the shows.  I think [...]

That’s right, 10 Things Movies Teach Us About Virus Outbreaks made front page over at the IMDB (as well as Fark).  Damn, it feels good to be a gangster.

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 [...]

Over at Den of Geek, they’re going to be starting up pages designed to increase clicks into the archives that are basically “More by this author” links.  Unfortunately, all those pages are going to have to be generated by hand, and because Simon and Martin have to run a real magazine in addition to maintaining [...]

I undertook the challenge on a whim, but I finished it out and I’m incredibly proud of myself.  NaBloPoMo, at least for this month, is over.  I’m kind of looking forward to the day where I don’t glance at the clock, mutter curse words under my breath, and then realize that I have to post [...]

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 [...]

A few months back, Newscoma came to me and said, “Ron, you write everywhere. You really need to keep it all in one place in case the websites go offline.” I agreed and made notes to myself to do this. That was months ago. Because I’m lazy, and because it’s been around for like 4 [...]