I think I must get off on pressure. My 800-word story on private equity funds letting loose their european offices is due in 8 minutes. Is any of it written....I leave you to ponder.

I'm now calling people with a furiousity (a good new word) usually reserved for car salesmen with back rent to pay.

This is great: http://www.slate.com/id/2111848/. Homeland defense as a big merger. Clever. Wish I'd written something on it.

My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North; General of the Felix Legions; loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius; father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife; and I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next ( Read more... )

( Jason Ihle's annual Best-of roundup: )

Why I lose the top bar of livejournal when I go to read in the friends section? Seems dumb. Also, is the site usually this slow?

Today has been a magnificent failure. One interview with the CEO of an interesting little British company, 1,500 words on social security and not a helluva lot else.

So...trying to put out new issue of 24:7 (zineweb.com), but have almost no photo/art submissions. Anyone know anyone with really good photo/art work?

I tried to find an icon that would accurately depict the cynicism for which I am, regrettably, well known. I typed "cynic" into google and hit the image tab hoping to see some brilliant iconographic representation of cynicism (I still can't think of a good symbol for this--nothing quite so clever as the sideways triangle for "play" or the "danger" ( Read more... )

I am reading endless submissions to a literary magazine I run (24:7 Magazine: ZineWeb.com). The biggest annoyances--horrible rhyming poems aside--are short stories written in the past perfect or God-help-me in the 2nd person. My college writing professor was blunt about the "past functioning as the present." Sometimes when I'm charitable, I take ( Read more... )