Disclaimer: I’m writing while listening to Yngwie Malmsteen’s Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra in E Minor, which is the perfect complement to my Godsmack t-shirt and fuzzy duck slippers.
Context: While standing around with other middle school parents a few weeks ago, one (who happens to be a music teacher) posed a question to use [...]
Archive of entries posted on December 2007
Really Classic Rock
WKRP and the Writer’s Strike
The duration and dialectic of the Writer’s Guild strike demonstrates to me that most studios continue to “not get it” when it comes to digital media. They still insist on monetizing every right, and yet only want to share in that monetization if they can see an a priori path to generating profit from the [...]
Bad Santa
I’m a bad Santa, and that’s “bad” as in “bad imitation,” not “bad” as in “good” or “ill-behaved.” But I love being Santa, even if it’s for 20 minutes in our office holiday party, and this year marked two full decades of wearing a red carpet, itchy nylon beard and someone else’s idea [...]
Cory Doctorow Comics
Combining my love for off-beat comics with an overtly fan-boy consumption of Cory Doctorow led me to my own Brighton Beach Memoirs moment of perfect mash-ups: I’m now in possession of the first three Cory Doctorow comic books based on his short stories.
The artwork is fantastic, the realizations of the characters contain enough subtle [...]
Chasing Perfection
Spoiler alert for Cory Doctorow’s “Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow”
Someone asked for my favorite output of Cory Doctorow’s. Easy choice for me, as it’s the short story “Craphound,” the lead-off entry in the “Place So Foreign” short story collection and the piece that lends its name to Cory’s website. I love [...]
Letter Perfect
Chalk it up to a lighter jersey, lifted of letters. Or maybe Patty was just told he can have fun again. Or maybe it was getting halfway to the 500 goal mark, or perhaps Dino set Elias up with some good calzone at lunch time today. I’m merely [...]
Langenbrunner From Elias
Patrik Elias has gone from “A” to “C” to a more simply lettered sweater, with Jamie Langenbrunner named the new Devils captain. There have been dozens of online column inches written about the nationalities of various NHL captains, and how that has or has not translated into success in the post-season (if there [...]
Foreground Process, Reading Input
I basically did a control-Z on blogging about a month ago. It was completely unintentional, a combination of too much travel, holidays, a short family vacation, a lot of work, and quite honestly, the NJ Devils going on an 8-game winning streak that had me devote significant time to coaching from in front of [...]
