A year ago today, I posted a song on Facebook, and tagged it #1st. The next day, a different song but the same tag, and again and again until one day I started using the tag #2nd, and then #3rd, #4th, and so on. I offered no explanation for this, but a couple of people figured it out before I revealed what I was doing. Here's the post that ( Read more... )

I've had it in the back of my head that at some point this year I would write about 2014 being my 20th year in online television fandom. I don't remember exactly how or when it happened, but I signed up for AOL in 1994 and somehow stumbled upon the TV Gossip section and its Melrose Place bulletin board, where I found a community of like-minded folk ( Read more... )

I learned this evening -- via Facebook, of course, because where else does one find out about what's going on in other people's lives these days -- that an old friend's husband had recently moved out on her. She realized tonight that among the things he'd taken with him when he left was her Kitchen-Aid mixer, leaving her both indignant and baffled ( Read more... )

A Facebook friend recently posted a link to a blog post. I'm not going to name the blog or mention the headline, for reasons that will become clear, but the gist of it was that Ohio State University's newly appointed president, who happens to be black, will receive half the salary of OSU's last president. It starts by talking about Lee Daniels' The ( Read more... )

At the sandwich shop the other day, we were listening, as we often do, to Pandora's classic rock station. They play about what you'd expect to hear on a classic rock station, which is to say mostly guitar-based rock from the 60s and 70s with occasional forays into the 80s. Most of the latter are by artists who got their start in the 60s or 70s but ( Read more... )

Well, that was fast. It's not so much a question of being lazy tonight; I just got caught up doing other things, and all of a sudden it was pretty late and you know how it goes. So here are a couple more poems, as chosen by my Facebook pals after I assigned them a particular poet.

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From time to time last year, when I was posting something every day, I would from time to time feel lazy or tired or rushed, and so would post a poem instead. This year, I don't plan to post every day, but that doesn't prevent me from feeling lazy or tired or rushed on the days I have decided to post something. Today it's the first with a little ( Read more... )

Spotted on Facebook:


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Saw this on a friend's Facebook wall the other day:


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A bunch of my Facebook friends have been posting this in their status today:

"In your status line, list 10 books that have stayed with you in some way. Don't take more than a few minutes and don't think too hard--they don't have to be the 'right' books or 'great' books, just ones that have touched you."

Sounds fun! But I'm going to post my list ( Read more... )