Month: September 2008

Idon't have time to blog much, as I'm having a truly fun day at work. Who knew? We're filming a bunch of parodies for Bankerspank.com - you can see some of the older ones that are already up there. The new batch aren't Mac/PC parodies - I'll show you some of those as soon as ... Read more

I'vebeen in meetings all morning, and I left, returned to my car, and heard the news that the House voted down the bailout.  The mind reels.  I can try to pretend I understand the intricacies of this, but I don't. I'm usually skeptical of government solutions, so my default position would be skepticism of the ... Read more

Settlingin... just saw a really controversial KSL editorial telling us to live within our means. Neat. Now watching NBC... Ah! A little bias to start off! "40 years after segregation, an African American is now a candidate." My wife wonders why Brian Williams has a job... Jim Lehrer's intro - I hate Jim Lehrer as ... Read more

Careto join me? I'm going to do a running commentary as we watch two awful candidates and decide which sucks slightly less. ... Read more

Thereare a number of websites I punch up on a fairly regular basis just to read the headlines, the first and foremost being the Drudge Report. So imagine my joy yesterday when the front page of Drudge screamed, in bold red letters, that JOHN MCCAIN SUSPENDS HIS CAMPAIGN - HEADS BACK TO WASHINGTON TO WORK ... Read more

Yourcomments on yesterday's Prologue are greatly appreciated. I think I'm old and crusty enough that I'm not too scared of being mangled by critics. I don't know if I can incorporate all your suggestions, but this gives me a bit of direction. I thank you. Please, please continue to comment on it, though - I ... Read more

“Themost important decision you can make right now is what you stand for. Goodness...or badness.” - Judge Smails, Caddyshack PROLOGUE “We need more blood!” I’ll bet you do, the gaunt nineteen-year-old snarled inwardly. His own pale complexion suggested he could have used a little blood himself. He looked completely untouched by the Southern California sun, ... Read more

Okay,I'm going to do it. So here are the ground rules. I'm going to post the "prologue" of the novel tomorrow morning. Please feel free to savage it as you will. I'm not, however, going to post a chapter a day, as I want to give people enough time to read and digest the thing, ... Read more

Okay,here's the deal.  I'm writing a novel. Actually, I've been writing a novel, on and off, for well over a decade. I have a draft that stinks that I finished in 1998, and about two years ago, I decided to radically rewrite the whole thing, changing it from first person to third person, and actually ... Read more

Idid an entry on this last year, as I know several useless French phrases that are either ridiculous or rude, sometimes both. But tonight, I learned a new French verb that I thought you might like. The English translation is "to wax," as in "to wax a surfboard." The French verb? "Farter." It is conjugated ... Read more