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Talking About Marriage
So I didn't mention this year, because apparently I've turned into the type of person who can only sustain my attention span long enough to post to Twitter or to Facebook, but a couple of months ago, on my three year anniversary, I got engaged. The story is actually pretty boring to anyone who's not me or my (now)fiancee--I'm allergic to fancy ( Read more... ) -
Punchstarter: A Kickstarter for Passive-Aggression
Kickstarter is one of the big new success stories of Web 3.0. If you've never seen it before, it's at its core a crowd-funding mechanism to raise money via social media, your friends, and the friends of your friends. You create a page, laying out your fundraising goals, what you're intending to use the money for, and what you'll give your donors in ( Read more... ) -
The Lover You Have, Not The One You Deserve
The New York Post has reported that the inspiration for Adele's Grammy winning album 21 is an aspiring musician and actor who goes by the name of Slinky Sunbeam, who met Adele and started dating her after she became famous for her previous album, 19. The NY Post, with the Post's customary focus on properly sourcing and confirming their stories, ( Read more... ) -
An Ellipsis in Time
Being a stickler for proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation is an exercise in futility on the Internet. There are simply just too many people out there who inexplicably believe they are capable of communicating via words while yet being functionally illiterate.
This is why I no longer spend any time in the comments on general Internet sites. ( Read more... ) -
Fighting the Good Fight
nihilistic_kid reminded me of the one of the greatest of all crazies in America: Steve Lightfoot.
Is it wrong to find someone's obvious mental illness so goddamn entertaining? Schizophrenia divorces people from reality, and causes them to find connections that aren't there, and so a schizophrenic's ramblings wind up being like a Salvador Dali painting, or a ( Read more... ) -
The Loneliness of Being Madonna
It is completely unfair to single Madonna out for criticism on her age for performing during the Super Bowl Halftime Show. The Who, Tom Petty, the Stones, and dozens of other musicians have performed on that stage without the same level of critism that Madonna received for her performance.
The criticism seems to spring from the fact that Madonna ( Read more... ) -
Stu's Heart Monitor: Week 1
Sorry. I hadn't noticed that my previous post hadn't actually posted until nearly a week after I wrote it, so though it looks like I'm updating y'all on something that I wrote only mere minutes before, this is actually from quite some time later.
I've been wearing this heart monitor for a week now. It's the size and shape of an old Blackberry, which ( Read more... ) -
Totally Clipped To My Heart
Because my heart palpitations have been getting more frequent, but only at night, I saw my cardiologist last Monday. He had a collegue, an electrocardiologist, sit in on the meeting. Because the heart palpitations are infrequent, and tend to happen only at night, she recommended one of two options.
The first, which she brought up just as a ( Read more... ) -
Books This Year
35 books for me this year, which is the fewest books I've read since I started recording these things. In my defense, I read some long ones, but mostly, I blame the fact that I got a New Yorker subscription, and spent my commutes listening to podcasts for a couple of months.
It's very clear from this lists the ruts I got into. Started out with food ( Read more... ) -
Mirror Universe Stu
There is a man on the other side of the country, in Washington State. He shares my name. He is only three months younger than me. He smokes, but only socially. He drinks, but only socially. He is married, with no kids. He dropped out of college. We've never talked and never met, but he doesn't know his email address all that well, and since he has ( Read more... )