Writing

Hot Guys Writing Code

May 13, 2010

A friend of mine sent me a link to a review of a new blog that features “Hot Guys Reading Books.” The idea being that some women are really turned on by images of casual guys doing some casual reading. But why should book-worms get all the love? I can’t speak to the attractiveness of men [...]

Five Topics I’m Not Writing About Today

May 3, 2010

Being a writer means treating it like any day-job: you ought to work at it every day, and you can’t just cheat it. But I’ve been busy the last few days with my actual day job and, frankly, nothing has fired me up saying, “Write me! Write the shit out of me!” So here’s a [...]

“It’s Like An Essay, But An Essay “On Crack!”" – TNB

April 10, 2010

What does it mean when you use the analogy that “It’s like (something), but like (something) on crack!”?

“Sentimental Tool”- TNB

February 18, 2010

There are two kinds of people: Keepers and Throwers. I’m a Keeper. I can’t throw anything away. This epiphany came while editing a recent story that my editor had called, “unwieldy,” a polite way of saying, “Get to the bloody point.” His version of the piece was five-hundred words. My original was nearly two-thousand. His [...]

Addiction or Why The Writing Habit Is Losing

December 3, 2009

Any writer will tell you that writing is a kind of discipline. Any fool with a pen can scribble out a few lines, even a few pages, when they’re feeling especially passionate. This is your epiphany on world politics or your treatise on “Why My Ex, Jane, Is Such a Cunt.” The true mark of [...]

Like most endeavors, blogging…

July 23, 2009

It’s a silly world, blogging, dependant on a silly world, all wrapped up in the world wide web. Granted, I’m trying to join up with the son of a bitch, so who am I to complain. A few things I’ve noticed right off the bat when it comes to creating a website: 1. Everything takes seven [...]

Morning 2 of Blogging

July 23, 2009

I didn’t get to bed until 5 last night, which is never a terribly interesting fact to people when it regards any kind of work. If you friend goes to a party, you know it was a good party. There is always that chance they met someone and touched a boob or got mugged or [...]

Bare with me, folks…

July 22, 2009

Just a test, really, to see if I can at least make the internet do what I want it to do. For now, I know about this much, that sometimes I have grand ideas, ideas that come easily to me, ideas that I think are worth something, that give me a feeling of pride like [...]