As we begin the new year of 2012 Anno Domini – in the Year of Our Lord – or the year 104 in the year of Our Ford, for those of you who plan on downloading a copy of Brave New World on your Kindle – I still think about what I want to write…
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The one blog reader you should never date
So the year 2011 was full of new opportunities for me. And one of those opportunities involved getting back into the world of dating. And sometimes that “dating” involves meeting people who read my blog. But there was one blog reader I dated – just once – and I couldn’t tell if she really liked…
Read MoreJeremy Mayfield and a River in Egypt
Although I’m not as big a NASCAR fan as I once was, I do enjoy watching the races from time to time – mostly preferring the short-tracks like Bristol and Martinsville and Dover rather than the super-speedways like Talladega or Daytona (although I do have an affinity for Darlington in the superspeedway department, how cool…
Read MoreThe Blog Clog
My fingers have been stuck on the keypad for fifteen minutes. Fifteen minutes and they haven’t even left the home row. What do I write about? Where do I take my readers this time? What journey do we experience? I don’t know. I can’t think of a thing to write. It’s the “blog clog” –…
Read MoreRemembering Port Black
You don’t know Port Black. In fact, if you saw the headline of this blog, you might have thought that “Port Black” was some nautical destination, some seaside retreat. You might try to find Port Black on Facebook, but he doesn’t exist there either. In fact, he never existed as a flesh-and-blood person. He wasn’t…
Read MoreThe Robot that Took Over Harriet Gibbons High School
Flash back to 2007. I was working for Toy Collector Magazine, an online publication that focused on the rarest and most popular toys, games, dolls and trains. The publication lasted for about two years; it was a lot of fun and I enjoyed working there. Especially when it allowed me to give something back to…
Read MoreIn Praise of the Poky Little Puppy and What-A-Jolly Street
Sometimes, the simplest of texts are indeed the best of texts. Jason Purvis penned this blog post, asking people about what would be the most appropriate and enjoyable children’s books. And for the love of me, the only book I could recall reading over and over again, and essentially begging my mother to read to…
Read MoreTen Fingers Rather than Two Thumbs
Daniel Nester tweeted yesterday about whether the keyboard of today – the one found on our smart phones and touch screens – has actually contributed to a change in writing and composition. Originally I thought he was referencing a modern keyboard, I asked whether he meant QWERTY or DVORAK. Although I do know there are…
Read MoreCurse you, Manatee!!
Boy, I bet you’re wondering what THAT headline is about. Everybody has addictions of one form or another. Some people smoke. Some people drink. Some people play World of Warcraft and subside on a diet of Mountain Dew and Funyuns. My mother’s addiction – paperback romance novels. You’ve seen them before, haven’t you? They usually…
Read MoreAt some point in this blog post, the AP Style Manual will explode.
A couple of weeks ago, I spent a calm Friday night playing billiards at a local bar. It was a good spirited game of 8-ball, and neither me nor the person I played against would have caused Steve Mizerak or Jeanette Lee any worries in competition. But my opponent kept noting that for some reason,…
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