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Guilt Trip

27 August 2010

My buddy Jason’s persian cat has its own blog. Normally, I’d decry people writing in character as their pets (serially) as awful, but Bumble the cat’s unhinged jihadist persona is special and joyous. So, go read Infidel Nation if only to see the unfolding saga of a cat’s one-sided war with the SyFy channel.

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Attack of the Hipsters

23 August 2010

This weekend, I nearly died of hipsters. Luckily, I not awash in dismissive, smug conversations about Best Coast, Small Black, School of Seven Bells and Grizzly Bear and how Animal Collective and MGMT are ‘so over’. It is probably good that music wasn’t a topic of conversation, because I’d have been taken down in a [...]

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An IM Conversation I Just Had [Excerpt]

23 August 2010

Woman: I just want he to know that we’ve done work in their industry before. Woman: (she to know) Me: Her to know? Woman: OK, LOL

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A Brief Anecdote #2

20 August 2010

So yesterday I made a comment about being biased against Dave Eggers in the comments of someone’s Google Reader item and BOOM – some total stranger swoops in like Batman and says “shut the fuck up Jeff.” Whoa, right? My first thought was that the commenter was Dave Eggers himself (who I’ve done a bit [...]

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Handy Instructions

19 August 2010

So I’m looking at this terrible website for work, and it’s just a collection of spam links in list format. And they look something like this (all actual anchor text from the site) PLAN A FUNERAL GET A DIVORCE BUY A MATTRESS START YOUR OWN PERSONAL JEWELRY BUSINESS I feel like this is a new [...]

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Four Days With The Nook

12 August 2010

I splurged in commemoration of my birth and bought a nook from my local Barnes & Noble. I’ve had it for four days. As a gadget, it feels good in my hand, is responsive, has a nice minimalistic design and a good user interface and its e-ink screen is incredibly crisp and readable. Because his [...]

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Treinta y Dos

11 August 2010

I am one year older than I was when last I posted. Thirty-one was alright. I fell in love. Stopping right there, that’s a good year. Despite being self-published, I managed to tell a comic book story I could put my name on, with the help of my talented friends. I took on new job [...]

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