Twitter was born in 2006 to a skeptical online community, most of whom did not want to know what Demi Moore was eating for dinner, what particular strain of ganja rapper Snoop Dogg was smoking at any given moment, nor when, where, and which Kardashian sister had just noticed an itchy, smelly, reddening condition. Were the […]
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie My rating: 5 of 5 stars I am a huge Alexie fan, having read most of his books. Ironically I discovered him because of the Indie movie “Smoke Signals”, based on the interwoven short stories in the collection The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight […]
A great author friend of mine asked this question (yes, in ALL CAPS, but minus the “oh William” part) in a comment to my last blog. Well, it was more like a comment to a comment to a comment, but it struck a major chord with me. I live in a small corner of the […]
I wrote a pretty serious (and important) blog today. I happened to mention a quote from one of my all-time favorite movies, Pulp Fiction. It’s Sunday evening, I am feeling a little cheeky, so I thought for those of you who have not seen it (or maybe for those of you who have and l0ve […]
I’m a realist, who is really just a pessimist who stopped guessing at the terrible future before him and started studiously paying attention to the terrible things happening in life, all around him: in the news, on the Internet—even in the supermarket. Oh, better not forget this part: and concluded that this world we live […]
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