Category Archives: what is wrong with us
I Don’t Know What To Call This, Because I’m So Appalled.
Scene: Chevy Chase, MD. A small suburban neighborhood. My sister is moving to California. It’s June. The movers are packing and as I eat lunch, I speak with one of the movers, a young woman in charge of packing the … Continue reading
Filed under dialogues, media, what is wrong with us
The Writers Guild Strike Explained, Even Better Than Ever
From Dana Goodyear’s blog at the New Yorker.
Filed under media, meme, what is right with us, what is wrong with us, writers, writing
The Silent Majority Is Reading
The New York Times ran this piece Sunday about the pretentiousness of buying something like Herodotus for someone for Christmas. Let’s read along and translate it, shall we? Feel free to add your own translations in the comments. YOU would … Continue reading
Ending Your Days Of Bachelor Loneliness With A Wild Husband
10:28 AM thiago: dude i need a BF 10:29 AM hooking up casually is exhausting haha me: it is why do you say that? 10:30 AM what happened? thiago: haha emotionally exhausting that is 10:31 AM nothing happened, im just … Continue reading
If You Watch This On The Internet, Pay Us.
Some of my favorite people from the Office, talking about the Writer’s Guild Strike. I watch the show on the internet, for the record. via Fishbowl LA
All Review Conventions Apparently Destroyed In Fire, Free-For-All To Save Literature Ensues Via Internet
In addition to the old conventions of giving a pass on giving someone a bad review, previously covered here, it used to be that you didn’t try to destroy first-time writers. Carolyn See thought better of that in the case … Continue reading
Filed under blogs, books, current events, what is wrong with us, writers
Media Inconveniently Makes Household Name of Clinton Bundler, Norman Hsu, Thus Too Busy To Give Romney Bundler Equal Time
Media Matters continues to be among the most relevant places I can go to on the web. This came yesterday, via their email list: an analysis of the disparity in press coverage between Norman Hsu, the Clinton donor bundler who … Continue reading
Filed under current events, media, politics, what is wrong with us
If you remember from reading Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, the changes go slowly and then quick.
Amherst Coffee, 11AM, with my two students, Anna and Steve, in a Special Topics in the short story. Me: Did you see that Verizon is now blocking users from receiving text message alerts from NARAL? Anna: That’s like a story … Continue reading
Americans Giving Up Friends, Sex, In Order To Be Online
This is just not okay. From Reuters: The poll, released on Wednesday, found the use of cell phones and the Internet were becoming more and more an essential part of life with 48 percent of respondents agreeing they felt something … Continue reading
Filed under animal savagery, apocalypse, blogs, what is wrong with us
