Archive for April, 2011
Incoming food metaphor! If you’re a wine person (or just an alcoholic with a steady income), you may have noticed a trend lately for “young” or “unoaked” Chardonnay wines. The theory here is that you get the pure essence of the Chardonnay grape, which is supposed to be a good thing. Oaking — aging in [ READ MORE ]
I’m occasionally reminded of a comic I read years ago about a man making a deal with the devil: “Jeez, it was already the worst contract in the world, and then you went and bled all over it.” You’ll see a few of these if you’re determined to earn your bread with written words. Internet [ READ MORE ]
The inestimable Tawna Fenske, whose blog you should all be reading, mentioned yesterday that she wasn’t posting because she was here: Then she called them “alien boobs.” You can see why I like the blog. So in a similar vein, I am posting to say that there won’t be a real post (just this crappy [ READ MORE ]
Every time I hear “Hungry Heart” by Bruce Springsteen it takes me to a whole different world. Specifically, Roger Zelazny’s world, or worlds I guess, from Nine Princes in Amber and its various sequels. The book doesn’t have anything to do with Bruce Springsteen except that I thought both were cool at about the same [ READ MORE ]
Winter is indeed coming in Wisconsin; we had a lovely little snow just this morning. And on that subject, I have a confession to make about A Game of Thrones: I stole the first episode. Downloaded it in toto without paying a cent. I mention this because there’s a lesson in it, rather than out [ READ MORE ]
I walked by a bunch of kids waving palm fronds on my way to work yesterday morning. And despite what you’ve seen on Fox News that’s not normal for Wisconsin this time of year — must be Palm Sunday again. In the name of casual conversation I made the mistake of mentioning the palm-waving kids [ READ MORE ]
It’s been a busy week. That’s a good thing, since it means getting paid (and don’t I just need it, after paying my taxes), but it makes the temptation to just skip the blog post for the day much, much stronger. Fellow bloggers take heed: if you have a regular schedule (like my M-W-F updates), [ READ MORE ]
Ever since the Reachemol billboards I’ve been keeping an eye on local advertisements. And you know where you can find great ads? At the local zoo, where everything is required by tradition older and dearer than law to include at least one adorable animal. Look at this one, telling me about all the good things [ READ MORE ]
I expect some of you are already familiar with the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, a yearly honoring of the worst opening lines in fiction. It has the distinction of being a tongue-in-cheek, submission-based bit of literary humor that predates the internet, going back to a time when getting multiple thousands of entries in a contest really [ READ MORE ]
I have this problem where I like to talk about funny things that happen to this blog. So if I write a post about yoga pants, with a picture of a girl in yoga pants, and the next day I have a slew of inbound links from places like “hotgirlsinyogapants.com” — I mention it. That [ READ MORE ]
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