All right, time for more snippeting. QotD: "I've built a summer cottage on the edge of full-blown psychosis and I grudgingly acknowledge others' right to not visit me. It doesn't mean I don't get... it was originally published at the tail end of 1998, right around when the time was ripe for mocking dot-coms. The time is still ripe for mocking the kind of thinking common to bubbles and swindles

If you write and talk about it, someone has probably told you to read Natalie Goldberg's Writing Down The Bones . Unlike The Elements of Style and Writer's Market , Goldberg's book is something that's... It's forehead-rubbingly annoying to deal with. And here you are a writer, infinitely original and endowed with a sensibility that is charming though beyond the understanding of the vulgar.

...too often. However, the greed coming from Fisher Communications has got my goat good (yes, I really did say that). For those of you living outside the Pacific Northwest, on December 17th, the retransmission contract between Fisher & Dish Network expired, & w/ no new contract agreed upon, Dish Network pulled local Fisher networks from their programming. As much as I hate a black out of a...

For bossgoji , and because "to thine own self be true" will still get you punched in the head in most places: Melissa McEwan : Today marks the 10th Annual Transgender Day of Remembrance, which...for living with large groups of humans and it steams me to no end that leaving harmless people alone is apparently too much to ask of some folks. Here's hoping for the eventual adulthood of humanity