Saturday, February 27, 2010
Roger Ebert has always been the most eloquent movie critic of our generation — of any generation for that matter, seeing that movies themselves have been around for so few generations in all — but, it seems, with the loss of his voice, Ebert has transcended his well-creviced niche, branching out into blogging about anything [...]
Saturday, February 20, 2010
By now, you’ve probably figured out that I never liked writing anything the typical way as kid. At 16, I had to write an autobiography. I, of course, decided to write it in the frame-work that I’d been abducted by aliens to, well, the first lines of my paper explain it best. Mission: To search [...]
Sunday, February 14, 2010
A Valentine’s poem courtesy of a childhood me. Love me Love you So we can be Loved by two
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
I’ve always found it slightly mind-numbing that humans tend to assume that just because WE can’t communicate with other creatures, they must not have sophisticated social communicative systems of their own. It’s a bit like assuming that just because I don’t understand Portuguese, the Portuguese must just be shouting gibberish at each other. Anyway, guess [...]
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Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Hazards of working in the game show industry: On a Country Karaoke show, I once got in an argument over whether Honky Tonk should be hyphenated or not. Turns out, that oddly, the frequenters and purveyors of our country’s Honky Tonks have utterly failed to standardize their punctuation.
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Unfortunately, what is perceived as confidence in men is often seen as pushiness in a woman. A Psychology Today articles suggest that a firm handshake may go a long way in subconsciously conveying a positive view of your confidence. Um, maybe?
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
I read too many Bill Bennett’s Big Book of Virtues stories when I was little, which consist of tales of dismemberment and death to kids who didn’t exhibit said virtues. Tasteful, I know. Anyway, I wrote a bunch of stories as a kid about disobedient little girls getting eaten by wild beasts and dishonest young [...]
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As a kid, my sister, a friend, and I published a magazine we called Kidsville. It featured many scintillating articles about everything from movies to the news. Ok, to be honest, the biggest news we ever reported on was when the power went out for two hours. But, honest to God, I noted in the [...]
Thursday, January 7, 2010
One of the numerous childhood stories I wrote about royalty had the following bit which is slightly amusing? “Humperdump, send for my son the Prince. Surely the people will listen to him.” [said the king] The Prince attended the College for Kingly Kids where he learned how to be a King properly. “But, sire, he’s [...]
