Aside from slathering over CHUD’s WILF-ability two months ago, I haven’t been able to come up with a single thing to write about since. News and movies are covered and I’m not usually self-aggrandizing to think anyone gives more than 3 Charcharadon shits for anything going on in my life right now because A) I’m no Barry … Continue reading
Next week I’m heading out to San Francisco once again to visit EA for one of their community days- this time for Battlefield: Bad Company. It’s funny, as much as people slam EA (sometimes for good reasons, lots of times not) the employees there are incredibly cool people, and very generous. It’s going to be … Continue reading
Continental Divide My wife and I are spending the night here in Athens [Georgia not Greece, home of the most annoying football fans ever] to see the amazing Greyboy All-Stars perform and as we pulled into the motor court of the quaint if not slightly musty Foundry Park Inn & Spa and she mentioned one … Continue reading
Does anyone ever really know what they are truly capable of? I think we discover what we are capable of when we are placed in a position that requires us to reach beyond our comfort zone. You may have an innate skill for playing tennis, but if never pick up a tennis racquet and play … Continue reading
Put a Bullet in Space Ace and Dirk the Daring It never fails. Every time a new disc based media arrives, the video disc games that had a 12 minute shelf life IN THEIR HEYDAY get popped onto the new format even though the overkill was dead long after the overkill had overkilled it. Dragon’s … Continue reading
Andruw Who? I was one of the happiest Atlanta Braves fans to see Andruw Jones sign a big contract. Somewhere else. Watching the lazy, enlarging outfielder with the hole in his swing and a throwing arm that has diminished drastically in recent years leave town has been a joy. My season tickets last year were … Continue reading
Yesterday I broke my pledge once again to never head back into Brooklyn in order to check out the Murakami exibit at the Brooklyn Museum. If you’re not familiar with the man (I barely was, outside of his art on Kanye’s last album) his stuff is very strange. Commercial and pop and deviant all at … Continue reading
Your Rights as a Talkbacker. Note: I got zero comments during my five day hiatus from blogging. Are you folks really that indifferent? Show a little more fire, people! These aren’t easy to keep up even in the best of situations. Much to the chagrin of some readers and members of staff, I implemented a … Continue reading
This New York Times story is interesting in that while the mainstream media just loves talking about blogging, this is the first I’m aware of to take this angle: blogging can kill you. The piece attributes a couple of deaths and heart attacks to the stress and grind of blogging, and I can see how … Continue reading
Great American Hypocrites I just finished reading my advance copy of Glenn Greenwald’s outstanding book, Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics. It’s the best book I’ve read on how the media works since Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. In some ways, I … Continue reading