It’s pretty widely accepted in the writing community that it’s vital to write as often as possible… that setting aside time each day to write is The Way To Do It. Even something like NaNoWriMo feeds into this philosophy… challenging people to bang out 50,000 words in a month, like this is the pinnacle of… Read More Getting the last word
You know what’s worse than a book or a TV show being downright terrible? A book or a TV show being boring. I came to this conclusion a few weeks ago, when I was desperately trying to stay awake during the critically acclaimed HBO series Boardwalk Empire. Boasting a stellar cast, a beautifully detailed period setting,… Read More That’s entertainment
While Albany persists in being an episode of Romper Room and the MTA keeps trying to hike fares, what is New York State busying itself with? Really annoying campaigns to control its residents’ bodies! Doesn’t the NY State Health Department have anything better to do? First, there is the graphic anti-smoking campaign, with the amputee… Read More Public disservices (Never shake a lynx!)
Charlie Sheen signed on for the next season of Two and a Half Men for a reported 1.78 million dollars per episode and he has pled guilty to assault. Whenever I flip on Time Warner Cable’s On Demand services, they’re touting Roman Polanski’s Ghost Writer as a rental. And, lately, every time a New York… Read More Stop the Violins
I don’t usually grab a copy of Metro, the free newspaper, when I catch the subway in the mornings, but today, I impulsively took one on my way up the steps…and soon wished I hadn’t. Page two featured a story entitled, “Samaritans pull woman from tracks.” An inspiring headline, to be sure! Anthony McBurney and… Read More Bystander apathy in the digital age
A scant month after Andrea Miller’s “humorous” ‘How to Date An Indian’ piece in The Huffington Post comes another oh-so-funny offering: comedian Joel Stein’s My Own Private India in the July 5 issue of Time magazine online, which discusses the Indianization of Edison, N.J. I think there’s a very real problem in media today, if respected publications… Read More Stein’s own private joke is no laughing matter
Eclipse, the latest cinematic installment of the Twilight saga, is out, and there are a lot of thought-provoking reviews cropping up. This one, from HitFix, had a lot of great things to say about the messages Stephenie Meyer’s books, and the films made from them, send to women. And it has spurred me to think… Read More Bella, Buttercup, bikinis and bad love.
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