Archive for the 'Self-Indulgent Semi-Lucid Thoughts' Category

Read, Watch, Etc.
Monday, June 15th, 2009

“What are you reading/watching/eating??” the readers ask. Well, here’s an ultra-short compilation:
Isn’t it great when a friend writes a novel, and you think it’s amazing? Check out Rakesh Satyal’s amazing debut, Blue Boy. It’s the perfect book for anyone who has ever spent a day feeling bullied, suppressed, misunderstood, downtrodden, or tyrannized. In other words, […]

So, Uh, Is the Recession Really Over?
Sunday, May 31st, 2009

Not a chance. But I will sort of miss it when (if) it does go.

Twitter Me This
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

So Twitter. If you don’t know know what it is yet, you may soon be the only one. As with any new form of communication that sucks us all into its vortex (TV, anyone?), Twitter’s rise is bringing all sorts of criticism, with bloggers and other Web pundits (pot? kettle? black?) leaping on cyber-soap boxes […]

30 Years and a Shoe Up the Ass
Monday, April 20th, 2009

After a couple months, I’m getting used to this whole “30″ thing. At the least, it makes for a handy punchline — “I don’t have to put up with this bullshit from overcharging deliverymen/surly bus drivers/dudes in bars…I’m 30!” It’s a nice mantra, a reminder that I’m not as terminally stupid as I once was–things […]

Another Blog Post About (Wait for It…) Watchmen!
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

Don’t worry, I’m not gonna sermonize on every detail in the film and whether it was loyal in body mind and soul to the book, like every other blogger in creation. Oh wait, who am I kidding — of course I am! But mercifully, not here. Check out my pseudo-review at Discover’s Science Not Fiction […]

Perception v. Reality: The Neverending Showdown
Friday, March 6th, 2009

Human beings are funny. We waltz around, prisoners in our own heads, absolutely certain that everything we think and perceive is “real,” and not just a concoction of chemicals swirling in our skulls.
Take the classic “white Toyota” example: You spend your waking hours cruising along the roads, noticing other cars in a “I could […]

The Law Firm Revolution Will Be Blogged
Thursday, February 19th, 2009

Yes, I know — the law firm system is tanking. If you’re still entrenched in it, you don’t need me to tell you this — unless you’re busy clutching to those last non-billable threads of denial.
The fall of Legal Babylon is neither surprising nor unexpected, really — for years law firms have been the […]

Five Years in Six Words
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

There’s something brilliant about six word memoirs. Paring an experience down to its simplest element can be cathartic, forcing you to shave off all the messy emotions and perceptions that calcify around your memory of What Actually Happened. So when I heard about the first anthology of six word memoirs, I thought it was a […]

Comfort at the Base of 2009
Monday, January 12th, 2009

So, yeah, 2008 happened. We watched, read, and blogged as the biggest international clusterfuck in our lifetimes (with apologies to any Great Depression survivors who read blogs) leeched the blood from our stocks, home prices, and 401Ks like Bela Lugosi on a 5-month bender. Cable newscaster speeches started sounding like the pre-climax villain soliloquies in […]

The Internet Is For TV
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

I’ve been radio silence for a while, so in a gesture of cyber-pennance, here’s a list of worthy things to check out around los Internets:
Smart Girls at the Party — a newly-launched Web series featuring Amy Poehler, Meredith Walker and Amy Miles doing a smorgasbord of awesome things (the primary being interviewing young girls who […]