Category Archives: product
On Getting Your Name Out There, Part 2: The Story That Sells the Story
For the first part of this series on authors, author sites and author blogging, go here first. When approaching an author site, what I find least interesting is a sort of bland, safe, risk-free aesthetic, a headshot with links and … Continue reading
New World, Again
1. Oh horrifying new world, where every site I visit wants me to have a profile and to receive mailings. I have over 600 messages from them unread in my gmail account, and this is because I resent the time … Continue reading
My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down
Most of the time, I walk around feeling like someone replaced most of what I love about this country with a fake-looking creepy doll replica of it. A doll that’s trying to act casual, like nothing bad has happened. Even … Continue reading
Filed under comics, dance break, graphic novels, product, writers
Marie Antoinette Returns
From Vanity Fair: One of the persistent memes in the Republican line of attack against Barack Obama is the notion that he is an elitist, whereas the G.O.P. represent real working Americans like Levi “F-in’ Redneck” Johnston. It caught our … Continue reading
Filed under current events, fiction, media, politics, product
The Koreanish Housewarming Subscription Drive
While I was away, I had the chance to do some thinking. I’m going to admit—I’ve been conflicted about continuing this blog. Mostly because I hate working for free. I’m morally opposed to the idea of writers working for free. … Continue reading
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The Listicle That Is My Mind Today
What, what, but what could Maureen Dowd say on the day after the primaries in Indiana and North Carolina? Do you even need to look? Is a Democrat not performing their gender correctly? Obama too womanly, Hillary too manly, determined … Continue reading
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Akira Lives
I’m sick with a spring cold, cranky and pissed off about “politics” in the US, also known as the charade that ends with nothing changing ever and rich people getting richer while the rest of us are forced to consume … Continue reading
Filed under anime, anime break, apocalypse, film, graphic novels, Koreanish, media, product
Mayhill Fowler, To No One’s Surprise, Is A Blogger
The Times’ Katherine Q. Seelye takes a look at the Huffington Post blogger, Mayhill Fowler, who first reported on Obama’s “bitter” comments. In the Times, her story as she believes it and professes it, is that she was doing her … Continue reading
We Are Now Broke Enough As A Country For Manufacturing Jobs To Return
I grew up in Maine, where I woke up this morning, and which is full of empty factories, dating back to when manufacturing jobs were shipped overseas to take advantage of cheap labor. Here in Biddeford, where my mother lives, … Continue reading
Letters To No One In Particular, #1
At some point today I realized I kept checking the news blogs, as I often do, during the day, in a way that was like how I used to read three newspapers in the mornings, when I first lived in … Continue reading
