Archive for December, 2010
And once again we come to that time of year when bloggers pass around year-end memes, talk about resolutions, and in general add to the flood of reminders that yes, another arbitrary mark on the calendar has passed us by! Honestly, I love it, and so does the traditional news media, because the content just [ READ MORE ]
Every once in a while (it usually works out to around once a month) I pander shamelessly to the popular culture just relax and have a bit of fun with the blog. Today is one of those days. If you’re here for advice that will change your writing career, come back Friday, because today is [ READ MORE ]
Traveling home from the holidays today, so a short one — got up this morning and, my family’s conversation basically being an English test, chatted over breakfast about their upcoming tickets to Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. For whatever reason, this made me realize for the first time that the loveable hippos of my childhood [ READ MORE ]
This should be a familiar story for us all: following a costly war in Afghanistan, the conservative majority launched another war in the Middle East before the last one was really even wrapped up. Voters turned overwhelmingly to a progressive liberal candidate and his party, sweeping them into both houses of government. Legislation then stalled [ READ MORE ]
One of the themes of this blog is that you can get paid to write anything if you really work at it, and another is that I am probably an alcoholic. The two came together for me recently when the Wall Street Journal Wine Club sent me an offer I couldn’t refuse — along with [ READ MORE ]
Here’s a conversation I have a lot in my working life: PHONE: Ring ring ri-fuckin’-ring. ME: This is Geoffrey; how may I help you? SOME FUCKER: I have a question for you. (Waits expectantly.) ME: … If you didn’t get it, the problem here is that they’re telling me something I already know. I’m at [ READ MORE ]
Off-day post! Regular content on Monday as usual. As many of you know, I keep an entertained eye on things like categories, tags, and especially search terms that bring people to my blog. This is a good practice, because it helps teach me what topics are best for shameless pandering, and alerts me whenever a [ READ MORE ]
If you missed the first two articles in this series, they’re here and here — all about looking like a writer in your casual life and how to dress for public appearances as an author. Today covers the last sartorial challenge likely to come up in the writing life: the Serious Business clothes. Serious Business [ READ MORE ]
Monday I talked about looking like a writer in your casual life: rumpled shirts, lots of layers, and all the other little imperfections that seem “creative” in the observer’s eye. Well, okay, I actually wrote and posted on Sunday, from O Best Beloved’s work, because we’re still without internet at home, but I’ll save “We [ READ MORE ]
Did everyone already know I write about clothes? You can find me over at Real Men Real Style on the regular, and I crop up in a few other places here and there as well. So with all that going on you should count yourselves lucky that it took me more than a year to [ READ MORE ]
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