December 2008
“Corporations have intruded into every facet of life. We eat corporate food. We...”
– Truthdig - Reports - Why I am a Socialist
“If I think about my writing before I start to write, what I’m really doing...”
– David Milch @ Sherwood Oaks
On the eve of Valkyrie, revisiting Tom Cruise in... →
“Adults lie constantly to kids….The conspiracy is so thorough that most...”
– Lies We Tell Kids
Happy Holdays from Henchmen 21 & 24 →
Young Muslims Build a Subculture on an Underground... →
In which life begins to imitate an Ian Svenonius essay.
“Liberals who see Warren as a garden-variety conservative evangelical defined...”
– Truthdig - Reports - Warren Is Worth the Headache
Everything you know about ARGs is WRONG →
If you have any interest in ARGs or online storytelling, this is a MUST-READ, on the order of the Elan Lee 2002(?) GDC paper on This Is Not A Game (which I can’t find a link for.)
Sentient Developments: Must-know terms for the... →
BaseballAmerica.com: Non-Prospect Diary →
“There is a (perhaps understandable) tendency for people to assume that if a book...”
– Cheryl’s Mewsings » Blog Archive » On Genre and Literature
“The photo shown in the 1978 card at the top of this page shows this witness to...”
– Baseball Toaster: Cardboard Gods : Alan Ashby
“Here is some writing advice I will henceforth be ignoring:”
– they must need bears
Winter Is Coming: exclusive pilot script review! →
“Let’s just quickly describe in the most dispassionate terms, as few of...”
– Glenn Greenwald Talks To Bill Moyers About The Rule of Law | Crooks and Liars
Retweeting @MackReed: @shortyawards I nominate @jaybushman for a Shorty Award in #fiction because of his TwiFi scifi novella, @goodcaptain
Please add your voice to the nominations here: http://tinyurl.com/5k5xhw
Herman Melville: Poet →
Brownstoner: Garden of the Day: King of Dirt in... →
“Raises are then determined by the boss, and the boss’s boss, largely as a...”
– Get Rid of the Performance Review! - WSJ.com
“As a result, the most fundamental assumption of progressive political strategy...”
– Democratic Strategist (via Crooks and Liars)
sixth and main: downtown comes together |... →
Content and Its Discontents →
The third argument says we have to change. We have to develop content that metamorphoses in sync with new ways of experiencing it, disseminating it and monetizing it. This argument concedes that…
Nationalize GM →
“We hear a lot about infrastructure investment today: roads and bridges, mostly....”
– TPMCafe | Talking Points Memo | Two (Radical?) Thoughts on Infrastructure
“…current bailouts—a remarkable $7.8 trillion in equity, loans, and...”
– We’re using the bailouts to rebuild giant financial institutions. But what we really need are small ones. - By Eliot Spitzer - Slate Magazine
Deckard's Trench Coat →
Want!