Saturday, January 11, 2014

Zombie, but not zombie

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I recently watched Season 1 of The Returned, after reading this New York Times article . Tremendous television, with visuals that range fro...
Thursday, January 02, 2014

Twin Peaks and Twin Beaks 20 years later

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[N ote: I wrote this two years ago and forgot to post it . Images sourced from here .] Back in 2011 I watched Season One and part of Se...
Wednesday, January 01, 2014

I forgot to drink on New Year’s Eve

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Well, not quite forgot. I became too distracted to drink on New Year’s Eve. Yesterday evening I finally got around to setting up my Raspber...
Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Any year with a 13 is bound to be tricky

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To mangle Joan Didion, we tell ourselves year-end summaries in order to live . 2013 was a hell of thing. In a year of not goodness,...
Monday, December 30, 2013

SXSW is a notionally offline social network

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I said something like this when trying to describe SXSW Interactive 2014, and then gave up and resorted to FOMO. This is much better: ...
Saturday, December 28, 2013

The system works (sort of)

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Last night I went to see Alvvays  at The Drake. Thanks to the miracle of Bandcamp, I gave  Programm  a quick listen, since they were playing...
Saturday, December 21, 2013

Blog is dead humour

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Friday, December 20, 2013

Without a bit of prior experience, a great suggestion isn't that great

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Before Tom Scocca crapped all over it , I read Adam Mordecai’s Quora post about why they write 25 headlines at Upworthy. I’ve in...
Thursday, December 19, 2013

Seven random sentences

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Yesterday I released some short story ideas into the wild. Today I've got a few sentences to share: In daylight, under the neon, e...
Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Eight beginnings in search of an ending

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I did some digital house cleaning this week. Scoured through digital folders where I keep short story ideas. I found eight potentials that ...