Posts Tagged ‘debate’
I had a lovely little review for Jeff VanderMeer’s Finch planned (short review: love!), but now I can’t get a bunch of questions and thoughts out of my head about this whole Amazon Macmillan iPad Kindle Apple Crapsplosion. These thoughts are wildly unformed; they are amoebic, just blobs of gel ill-contained in a quivering skin. [...]
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I’ve grown uncomfortable with the ideas of “Best Of” lists for the year, because… well, what the fuck is best, anyway? Don’t get me wrong. I used to do “top ten” lists and shit, but over time, you realize that it’s only so valuable a metric when every schmoe with a blog can tell you [...]
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Sweet Mary Bejeezus Craphouse, this has been a bite of a week. You ever have one of those weeks where you’re just not expecting the hellstorm to come raining down upon you? If you know it’s coming, you have an advantage. You can hunker down. Buckle up. Duct tape everything together. But when you don’t [...]
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“Spleenful” is another great word. Add that to your list, along with “slugabed” and “sesquipedalian.” See? I’m thankful for something — awesome words. But today is not a day for thanks, oh, no. The name of the day is Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving. Which means I’ve given all my thanks away. I had them. I had them [...]
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All right, everybody. It’s time to just calm down. Breathe in through your nose, out through your mouth. Or is it, in through your mouth, and out through your nose? Does it matter? No. In fact, a lot of things don’t matter that much. Some things are, quite frankly, overrated. Want a list? Done. Ten [...]
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