I’ve seen a few discussions online recently on the topic of how long you should accept waiting for a commitment in a relationship. So I thought I’d ask what you all think. I’ll start. I think that, once you are an adult, a year is the magic timeline. As a young person in school, you […]
I’m going to start doing question time again now. Question: Are you superstitious? I’ll start. I don’t consider myself traditionally superstitious, in the sense that I’m not that worried about stepping on a crack, breaking a mirror, or snuggling a black cat, and I don’t believe creaks in my house are those who have passed […]
Recently, while traipsing around the web with malice in my heart, I stumbled across a biological weapon of righteous vengeance. Something that struck fear in the deepest darkest recesses of my consciousness…a veritable doomsday device that is both terrible and awesome to behold; Super Crabs. (This product is apparently real. Someone please order this and […]
One of the oddest impacts of the internet is that being actually famous has become super unfun and being even a teeny bit internet famous can lead to a lot of the same headaches real famous people have — privacy invasion, unflattering paparazzi pics, strangers saying mean stuff — only without the resources actual successful […]
When the Sucker Punch billboards first went up in my neighborhood, I felt conflicted. It seemed, on the face of it, to have a decent checklist of things I would like in a movie, but I instinctively lizard-brain hated it. Upon reflection and now that the uniformly negative reviews of the movie are in, here […]
As a creative person, I’m a lot more likely to own intellectual property than, ya know, tangible physical real world property. But, damn, Pirate Bay founders Fredrik Neij and Peter Sunde have been sentenced to jail time. In addition, banker Carl Lundström has been sentenced to jail time for financially backing the site. Given how […]
As America gets ready to vote tomorrow, among the many ballot measures, one of the most bafflingly controversial referendums is California’s Prop 19. Proposition 19 would make marijuana legal and taxed in the state of California. Of course, the Federal government will still be of the opinion that it is illegal. This states’ rights versus […]
So Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal is pretty much a genius. He sold an early social network he coded some years back, so I have no idea if he needs to sit at home creating antisocial quizzes and hilarious webcomics. But, need to or not, he does. Today’s entry is Why Working at Home is […]
Last night, I was fortunate enough to have dinner with a motley crew of interesting creative people. One of the artists there, who I had not met before, was photographer Susan Anderson. Her book High Glitz has just been published by Powerhouse. According to the Powerhouse site, glitz is a subgenre of kiddie beauty pageant […]
A while back, I was appalled to learn that my pal Halcyon had taken a gig assisting with promo for Experian’s FreeCreditReport.com. Halcyon has always struck me as someone, who not only has a beautiful soul, but someone who usually strives to better the world around him, rather than polluting it. He and I made […]