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Hello, readers!

As you know, the holiday season is upon us.  Posting has been light around here of late due to professional obligations, health care issues, and the usual hubbly bubbly of the season, but we should be back in full swing by the start of 2013 with all your favorite features:  impotent political posturing, incomprehensible quasi-’jokes ( Read more... )

That well-fed fellow up there is the Reverend Douglas Wilson.  A product of Idaho’s state university system and a recipient of the largesse of his flock, this noble sky pilot is best known for his series of debates with the notoriously godless Christopher Hitchens on the topic of whether or not Christianity has been a boon for mankind.  (Rev. ( Read more... )

Hello, friends and readers!

I’m extremely pleased to announce the arrival of my newest book, Moods from Marbletown.  It’s a collection of short humor pieces collected from my previous writings as well as some brand-new material to make it worth the jingle.  If you’re a fan of smart, literate written comedy, you’ll enjoy the living bejesus out of ( Read more... )

Hello friends, readers, and worldwide strangers!

If you’re reading these words, it’s because you’ve stopped by on the day I launch a major overhaul of my home on the Internet.  It’s the biggest, most ambitious, and most complex upgrade to the site I’ve ever made in ten years of blogging, and I hope you’ll find it to your liking.  I know these ‘hey ( Read more... )

Hello, friends and readers!

As you probably already know if you are strangely obsessed with the financial peculiarities of people on the internet, I am a full-time freelance writer, and at the moment, 100% of my drastically tiny income is derived from writing.  And although I would never suggest that I am your equal in matters of hygiene, physical ( Read more... )

Some time ago, a friend of mine was discussing the painful direction criticism has taken in the internet age.  He suggested, in a bit of phrasing that has struck me as extremely perceptive ever since, that part of the problem is that people no longer approach art with any sense of humility.  Although the democratization of culture and the tumbling ( Read more... )

Attention media professionals, academics, authors, popular culture enthusiasts, seekers after wisdom, and other information-needing individuals and/or organizations:  today is your lucky day!  For today is the day I , Leonard A. Pierce Jr., announce that I am available for consultation on any and all topics - at a highly reasonable fee - as a ( Read more... )

Welcome to 2012, Ludic legions!

Whoa, I was channeling Stan Lee for a minute there, he must have gotten bottle service and nodded off.  Anyway, I’d like to take this opportunity to usher in the new year and let you know what’s up for this site and for me in general, because if you’re reading this, you’ve expressed an unexplainable interest in my ( Read more... )

Also country, dance, and, well, everything that isn’t metal or rap.  There’s a lot of ladies on this list, and a lot of stuff from foreign countries, and two records by Texas-based singer-songwriters on MCA’s phonus-bolognus country subsidiary.  I realize that my picks this year read like those of a crazy person, and I’m not sure what to do about ( Read more... )