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If there’s a theme this time around, it’s the idea that you can draw lines between all kinds of things, and despite the existence categories like “rock”, “country”, “r&b” or whatever, a lot of interesting stuff happening in the brackish areas where the borders bump up against each other. Each of these records, quite accidentally […]

The preponderance of little but cat videos for the last week should tell you all something. I took a little break from the grind. Over the course of my career thus far, I’ve traditionally worked with the kind of person who hosted their family’s Thanksgiving feast, so I’ve usually been the guy who stayed around […]

I actually passed 50k on November 16, which says something. There might be a decent novella in the mess. I’ll get back to you after I play with editing.

Yes, because I’m on vacation.

Catvertizing.

Courtesy of Fred Clark at Slacktivist, The Ten Commandments – Binary Edition: This is pretty much all the world’s major religions distilled to their purest essence. It really is that simple. If more people simply looked at it this way, and practiced their chosen faith (or lack of faith) this way, there’d be a lot […]

I’m not a fan of the Twilight series. It’s not written for me, and I understand that. I’m not opposed to the series on any militant level, though I still find a lot of the ideas presented terribly troubling, and have always suspected that these troublesome ideas could potentially really mess up a young, impresionable […]

As you may be aware, dear reader, I’m a big fan of the kind of pop culture meta piece like this one from (surprise) Amanda Marcotte about what she perceives as the ascendance of mass-market mediocrity in modern American popular culture as being inherently more “worthy” than properties with more limited, niche appeal. I include […]