I teach writing, so people naturally ask me if I write.  What they really want to know is if I write for publication, and more specifically, if I write books.  So when I tell them I work on some web sites for fun and that I blog, the expectation on their faces fades and I can see them put a mental strike through my name.  Anybody can do those ( Read more... )

Yesterday morning I woke up thinking that the all-natural movement's got it wrong. We sleep on spring mattresses instead of straw, command rain to fall whenever we want a shower, and travel astride metallic beasts. We've been marinated in chemicals of various kinds for well over fifty years. People will cry for genetically modified vittles but ( Read more... )

I wake up, tumble out of bed, start the coffee.  Sit in front of the computer and have a look at the news.  Schwarzenegger's talking about selling off real California real estate - including San Quentin Prison, of all things - to get some cash flow 2 to 5 years from now.

What the hell is happening here, people?  Everywhere I turn, I'm hearing ( Read more... )

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So somebody made a link to a page on my D&D site, stating that what I wrote was mediocre but I had some links worth looking at.  It's hard to argue with somone linking to my site and generating traffic, I guess, but I freely admit it bothers me ( Read more... )

It's 111 degrees in Glendale today (some say higher, some lower), and that shit is not right.  That is fucking Palm Springs weather, NOT Glendale weather, and for those of us without central air it is nigh fucking unbearable ( Read more... )

It's 5:30 in the morning and not long ago I saw that the electronic thermometer down the street was reading 75 degrees.  About twenty to thirty minutes earlier it read 74 degrees.  This is not, in my opinion, a good sign ( Read more... )

I was just waiting for some politician to mention the Mending Wall poem by Robert Frost, just waiting, and here it is.   HELL-O, did you fuckers actually read the poem?  Didja?  Because some folks seem to have missed a few vital points that any gradeschool English teacher could point out to them...

So, the NBA wants basketball players to dress in business attire for interviews and to cut out all the gaudy gold jewelry that they couldn't get away with if they went to a normal workplace ( Read more... )

Someone signed the guestbook for my web site today, but they were really porn spammers. They were blatant too. Their entry said: "I love porn!" and went right to the link. Honestly, as though they're going to get any traffic coming from my little site, right ( Read more... )