January 2012
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“To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation...”
– Mitt Romney, responding to the question, “What’s better than a moon base?” at last night’s debate.
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Trying too Hard
Me: I should take a picture of Norman Bates and write on it, “Always a mom’s date…never a mom.”
Coworker: I don’t get it.
Me: It’s a play on, “Always a prom date, never a…”
Coworker: Say it.
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Lovable Misfits: New Paintings by Krissy Downing →
My friend Krissy’s debut solo show starts this Friday at Northside Social in Arlington. I’ll be passing by for the opening gala and you should, too. Show some support for a great local artist! Info at the link.
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Spent some time tonight writing about living...
What if we were to make new memories every moment, never repeating what we’ve done in the past, expanding our perception of time, and coming close to death once a week. Fear of dying would cause our neurons to fire like mad as we tried to recognize patterns and tried to escape death, we would replay everything, all of these new memories, and we would relive lives that were longer than...
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“The only truly interesting thing about Elektra is that she died.”
– Yes, I’m quoting myself. After hitting “publish” I realized that I was guilty of putting a woman in the refrigerator.
I could delete the post, but better to keep it and document my own realization that I can sometimes be a misogynist. It’s the more honest thing to do.
I hope all of this discussion on Romney's...
Jesus. Christ.
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The National Pastime
I collaborated with Charles Fetherolf on a short story about the origins of DC baseball for Fulcrum Press’ upcoming District Comics. District Comics is an anthology edited by Matt Dembicki (Trickster, Xoc) that aims to tell the alternative history of Washington DC. Stories about spies and the DC punk scene and, in our case, DC baseball.
Our story in centered on the first well-documented...
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Thirty-Three
I had a crush on one of my best friends when I was a teenager. She never found out, I never told her. I remember the day I started liking her as “more than a friend.” We were both Smashing Pumpkins fans, as most teens in the nineties were, and she was with me when I bought Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. We went back to her house and played it. The first CD, Dawn to Dusk, was perfectly...
In Case You Wanted To Be Angry Of The Day:...
I’m just picking a few quotes but there’re 193 comments like this (so far):
From rightwingextremist1776:
OH LOOK!!!!! An Ex-wife with an ax to grind…..something we can ALL believe!
From Da Coyte, who wins the award for the most ridiculous democrat “pun” ever typed:
The diff is that Gingrich asked.
Clinton just did it anyway.
Oh, forgot, dim-bulb-crats don’t...
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Alcatraz
I was a little worried about JJ Abrams’ Alcatraz. JJ’s other new show this season, Person of Interest, was a bit of a let-down for me, being heavy on CBS procedural and light on mythology. Alcatraz had a similar feel - a Lost alum in a cop drama with some mystical elements but, at the end of the day, a procedural show and not a show destined to fill the hole in my life that was left by...
You Are Worthless
“You’re worth $2.99.”
I used that line several years ago in an article about the difficulties of getting your comics published by big companies. A lot of people don’t like to hear that, because they could spend thousands of dollars and lots of time crafting a story, paying artists, putting together a pitch, visiting these big conventions, and networking at bars afterwards...
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On Hot Tub Time Machines
Tuesday is my wife’s (and Michelle Obama’s) birthday. The FLOTUS and the First Lady Of The House (the FLOTH?…sounds like a disease). Birthday activities begin tonight, with a trip to Tosca likely followed by a pitcher and some keno at Harry’s and culminate next weekend with a trip down VA wine country and an overnight in our favorite B&B, one with a private deck that...
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pizzabeard replied to your post: 1Q84
I’m only about 100 pages in, and I’m disappointed that I didn’t get further before my classes started, because I know it’s going to be a while before I finish it now.
By the time you get to Book Two, you won’t be able to put it down and your classes will suffer.
Or you’ll hate it and never open it up again.
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1Q84
It took 15 days, but I finally finished Haruki Murakami’s 944-page magnum opus. It was, in a word, incredible. After only one read-through I am putting it on my list of all-time favorite novels, along with Absalom, Absalom!, The Master and Margarita, Gravity’s Rainbow, A Canticle for Leibowitz, Breakfast of Champions, The Little Prince, and a handful of other books that I consider...
Speaking of Peyton Manning
Remember when Tom Brady was injured and Matt Cassel ended up leading the Patriots to an 11-5 record but they didn’t make the playoffs because Brett Favre threw for 3 interceptions in the Jets’ Week 17 loss to Miami (Favre ruins EVERYTHING for EVERYONE, not just the team he plays on) and the Patriots “franchised” Matt Cassel and everyone was saying, “Oh, they’ll...
“If you watched Mark Sanchez the last month of the season, he was like a...”
– Boomer Esiason
Let us dissect this quote from the quarterback who was 15-27 as a NY Jet and got to the playoffs twice in his career with Cincy (with a 3-1 record but he did make the Super Bowl so credit where it’s due) about a player who’s 27-20 as a NY Jet and 4-2 in the playoffs (all...
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Winter Courses @ Arlington Adult Ed
I’m teaching three courses this semester:
1) Get Yourself Published - A two-and-a-half hour discussion on log-lines, marketing yourself, pitching, etc. 1/11/2012 (tomorrow) from 7PM-9:30PM. $65 for Arlington residents, $79 for non-residents. I’m kind of excited about this class again because I have some new pitches to share, both winning and losing pitches.
2) A Writer’s...
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Drive
I saw this crime movie with a great cast that made great use of color and the main character had this great sense of style and the soundtrack was fabulous and it was highly entertaining. It was called My Blue Heaven. I also saw Drive, which I can describe in almost the same exact way, except for the entertaining part.
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tonightandtherestofmylife asked: Tebow thanks the lord first but he always mentions his teammates next. I guarantee his teammates, many of whom share his religious conviction, don't care one bit about being mentioned second. He always gives credit where it is due and thanks the entire Broncos staff, win or lose. Tim will never be "as bad" as Roethlisberger as far as his treatment of women goes. He did the...
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What's With Tim Tebow and 316?
Tim Tebow used to write 316 on his eye black until the NFL told him not to. Last night, Tebow threw for 316 yards and managed to average an astounding 31.6 yards per pass. Naturally, fanatics are having a field day with this correlation while skeptics are saying it’s all coincidental. So, you may be asking, “What’s the relevance of the number 316?” Let me try to answer that...
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Tebow
I spent the weekend watching football, even though the only team from this weekend that I can really get behind is the Saints. The worst game, for me, was the Pittsburgh/Denver game. I’ve talked about Tim Tebow in the past, and how I just can’t get behind him as a player and how I hate the way the media portrays him as the biggest story in the NFL. I love watching Tim Tebow lose, but...
There's No Career in Believing
I was reading this fantastic little piece on Santorum being a “true-believer” and how terrifying it would be to have a “true-believer” in the White House. I agree wholeheartedly with the piece, that Santorum is the only candidate running right now who views himself as a Shepherd, in the biblical sense. Someone who is witnessing to the nation, someone who believes that God...
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ladyofthehouse replied to your post: And tell me you don’t *love* that Forever Lazy?! I mean, it just sort of turns you into a smurf/blue meanie/oompa loompa all at once. And the hatch… oh my god the hatch. We were cracking up for days at the hatch alone.
That’s it. We seriously need to start a Forever Lazy Collective or something.
Honestly…didn’t even know what it was until I got...
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ladyofthehouse asked: And tell me you don't *love* that Forever Lazy?! I mean, it just sort of turns you into a smurf/blue meanie/oompa loompa all at once. And the hatch... oh my god the hatch. We were cracking up for days at the hatch alone.