If you can’t say anything nice

You could say that I’m contrarian by nature. (Ask Plus One; he’ll be more than happy to tell you the number of times he’s wanted to throttle me for playing devil’s advocate.) I know, it gets tiresome after a while, but like the scorpion on the back of the fox, it’s in my nature.
Likewise, it’s [...]

The gay Goodfellas

“Playing defense is an important exercise in building courage among gay allies — politicians need to know that a vote for LGBT rights, however noble, isn’t a career-ender. But offense — switching out pols who vote against LGBT equality for ones who back the community — can literally reverse the fortunes of a state. It’s [...]

Holy crap

I just realized that I’ve written my book in completely the wrong order. A pivotal event that happens toward the end, in fact, belongs in Chapter Two.
Maybe Chapter One, actually.
This will substantially alter the flow of the narrative—characters who are currently introduced toward the middle will now be right there at the start—and most of [...]

Something Like Heaven, part one

NB: You know, it occurred to me yesterday—and you would be justified in asking why it took so darn long for it to occur to me—since I’ve made this blog private, and I haven’t been writing much that’s meaningful here lately (except for the odd rant, which may provide some entertainment), why not share what [...]

That’s “appalled” — with two L’s

And why am I appalled? Because I looked at the front page of our Web site and noted that an item posted by someone other than me not only fails to link to the attached files promised in the body of the item, but also contains two spelling errors.
Although it pains me, I am not [...]

Desperately seeking Angela

You know, the biggest disappointment this week is not that I didn’t get the job. (Well, perhaps it is, but let’s not dwell.) Rather, it’s that Falcon Crest is not available on DVD. You can get Dynasty, Dallas—hell, you can even get Knots Fricking Landing, but you can’t get the high point of Lorenzo Lamas’ [...]

Momentum

We helped my friend Tamara move into a new apartment yesterday. I thought I would be much sorer after helping move a queen-size bed, two armoires, a wood desk (man, that thing was solid) and assorted other furnishings. Luckily, her new place is on the first floor, so I managed to get through the day [...]

Is Google making us stupid?

As we are drained of our “inner repertory of dense cultural inheritance,” Foreman concluded, we risk turning into “‘pancake people’—spread wide and thin as we connect with that vast network of information accessed by the mere touch of a button.”
For me, the telltale sign that there may be something to this was that I had [...]

Getting my head in the game

That is to say, it hasn’t been there at all lately, at least as far as writing has been concerned.
Why? Mainly because I’ve been spending a lot of time trying to get a new job (and not having much luck so far) and working on a few projects (creating some Flash ads, redesigning a Web [...]

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