Photo: “Teen Romance” is CC Licensed Research is the first step to learning a subject. I’ve always enjoyed the process of discovering arcane facts, unknown nuances, and useful statistics. Yesterday, I began rediscovering Young Adult fiction at Barnes & Noble. It’s been years since I’ve explored the genre, but some of my writing is veering [...]
Category Archives: Culture
Perils of Public Writing
Yesterday at lunch I was writing a short story. Before I returned to work I began this post about how annoying people can be in public places. For many, coffee shops offer an inviting environment for writing. The cozy atmosphere, background music, and easy access to the nectar that feeds our muse keeps us returning [...]
Back In Black: Brown Skin, White Music
When I think of today’s pop culture, it’s often with disgust. Now that I’m older and wiser, I can’t pretend I don’t believe we’re on the eve of destruction. There was a time when I embraced the current culture. But even then, it wasn’t always my culture that I embraced. My high school years were [...]
What Gadget Culture Is Not
CC Licensed Photo Off with her head! Unlike Alice’s evil queen, I rarely make impulsive decisions. Even then they are often prefaced by several inciting incidents. A few days ago I made such a decision. Gizmodo is a familiar name for some of my technically inclined readers. It’s generally considered a “technology blog”, and several [...]
Blogging 3.0: Are We There Yet?
Remember when blogging started? Not the actual date so much as the feelings reading a typical blog invoked. Blogging 1.0 was all about the personal made public. It was a way to share what you were doing or thinking before Twitter and Facebook… before sharing that information was accepted or expected. Suddenly, you understood you [...]
Outpost 9: One Giant Leap For Martian Bats
Six weeks, nearly 450 lines of code (paltry), too little sleep and too many Starbucks triple tall Americanos later, I’ve delivered my first game coded in Adobe Director’s Lingo. It may have only been a dream, but this concludes the required three Interactive Authoring classes for my degree at the Art Institute. I’m pretty happy [...]
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Speechless Over Unseen Dr. King Photos
The beginning of the year always means one thing to me: Prepare for the onslaught of Black History Month and the Martin Luther King holiday. I don’t mean to make it sound like an onerous duty, but comparisons between these two events and the commercialization of Christmas are valid. Nonetheless, it’s necessary to think about [...]
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Waiting To Be A Person
http://www.flickr.com/photos/naes/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 I’ve been thinking about the “culture of life” this week. No, I’m not heeding Pope Benedict’s enticing (Ha!) call to convert to Catholicism. But the Fort Hood tragedy hilights a difference in how many of us view life, a difference as distinct as the chalk outline around the felled victims. [...]
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The Last Pitch
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And the Gold Medal Gos To…
Yes, that is Michael Phelps, winner of 14 Olympic Gold Medals bogarting the bong. You have to feel sorry for the poor bastard next in line. But the upside is that this may distract mainstream media long enough to allow Obama to get some work done. The truth is this photo merely shows how much [...]
