At the end of a re-posted Sarah Hoyt Human Wave “manifesto” You shall not spend your life explaining why your not-boring is better than your fellow writers not-boring. Instead you will shut up and write. There is nothing lamer, sadder, and more pathetic that author-on-author hate. Does anyone imagine that J.K. Rowling gives one… Read More A Message I Think Many of Us Self-Published Could Use.
You know how it is. You bounce back from a day of fasting and abstinence, and then you’ve got another day of abstinence staring down at you. The natural response: So Happy Meat Thursday, everyone. Now if you’ll excuse me, this chicken cordon bleu is not going to ravenously stuff itself into my mouth.
The Hollywood Reporter offers the usual dead-horse cruelty: As a television event, this year’s Oscars was more like an endurance test — turgid, badly directed, poorly produced and featuring an endless string of tired or wince-inducing moments from host Ellen DeGeneres. To which one can only add, well, isn’t that what it always is? A… Read More The Oscars Were Boring, Just Like Every Other Year….
Winter’s Blossom, posted on Medium. Thanks to Jason Yi for accepting it to his Dark Matter collection.
By RS McCain. Myerson is the bourgeois equivalent of the kind of semi-educated twerp who slicks his hair to that Fuhrer emo-flop and quibbles about exactly how many Jews died in the so-called holocaust. Apologetics for an ideology with Communism’s body count ought to be a one-way ticket to a compound in Idaho, printing off… Read More Useful Idiot Jesse Myerson Gets Slapped Around Like a Red-Head Stepchild
Lung disease, poor fellow. “I quit smoking 30 yrs ago. Not soon enough. I have COPD. Grandpa says, quit now!! LLAP,” the living legend tweeted, adding his signature abbreviation for the half-Vulcan’s “live long and prosper” motto. Now, COPD is bad, but it’s not lung cancer. My grandfather’s had emphysema, a form of COPD, for years. He’s… Read More Leonard Nimoy is Sick. Prepare for Nerd Agony.
Which, of course, we knew. The Tale of the Diadochi would make a grand tragedy were it not so feverishly complicated. There have to be five or six tragic heroes among them, each one more hubris-laden than the next. But this book, which I’ve just started: …spells out everything in clear, beat-by-beat style. There’s probably… Read More Alexander the Great Haunted His Followers For Decades
When I snarked about this a few days ago, I didn’t know that Rep. Henriquez was black (I also incorrectly called him a Congressman, rather than a Massachusetts State Representative). It doesn’t really matter that he his black (unless one wants to argue that if he were a white Democrat, he wouldn’t be in jail… Read More Democrat in Jail For Domestic Violence Protected From Expulsion by….NAACP
Richard Epstein is a smart guy. He writes sound columns, he advances strong arguments consistently. And his current column, ostensibly about Rand Paul but really about the difference between libertarians and “classical liberals”, (h/t Insty) can be counted as one of that number. I have never considered myself a hard-core libertarian, and would probably land… Read More Richard Epstein Needs to Get Over His Rand Paul Problem
It doesn’t take much to interpret Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s untimely death of what’s looking increasingly like a heroin overdose as an unconscious leap into the void. When I first read the accounts, I was struck by two facts: Hoffman had been clean, or so he said, for 23 years before last year. The brand of… Read More Why Celebrities Kill Themselves
