The PGA Masters Tournament was yesterday and Tiger’s incredible comeback story has reached a new crescendo. Winning his first major in eleven years, it would appear the demigod of golf is back. Or at the very least, it would appear that Mr. Woods is making a push to reassert some relevancy, much like Madonna is…
You don’t know what a $@#! grawlix is you stupid motha &*%$# piece of #?$%? Just kidding. I love a good explicative, ya know, for emphasis. Call it crass, call it uninspired, call it puerile if you love a good Latinism — call it whatever you want, I don’t really give a ?&@%. But I get…
Several years back I was reading Vonnegut’s eleventh novel, Galapagos, on a crosstown bus in NYC when the man sitting across from me forced eye contact and smiled. I noticed he was looking at the book I was holding, and like any good New Yorker I avoided looking in his direction again. This didn’t matter…
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport Digital Minimalism: A philosophy of technology use in which you focus your online time on a small number of carefully selected and optimized activities that strongly support things you value, and then happily miss out on everything else. (p.28) A friend recommended…
I picked up this copy of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas a year or two ago at West Sider Books in NYC. The store is on the east side of Broadway between 80/81, a hop-skip down from one of the city’s bulky Barnes & Nobles. West Sider has a great collection, the staff is…
I love the science fiction genre. Reading it, watching it, doesn’t matter, I #!@? love it. It’s fun being whisked away in extreme, often grotesque caricatures of human society. Sci-fi is unique in its ability to zero in on our collective anxieties, shoot those anxieties full of steroids, and then shove them down our…
Everything has to start somewhere is what I’m told. I guess this little project starts here. I’ll be honest and admit I don’t know what I’m doing. My goal in starting a blog is to find a goal for starting a blog. So don’t mind me, I’ll just be fumbling around over here in my…