Shocker: English Literature Masters students love to hear themselves talk.

I fully realized something recently, something I’ve always known about myself ever since high school, stuff as an English student that I never cared for, and probably why I focused more on journalism and the craft of writing rather than the study of the work. This reason is the grotesque vaguery and overall bullshitty mentality [...]

Time Warner Fail.

Probably going to be completely off until Friday, considering Time Warner has the biggest monopoly in all of the New York Metropolitan Area, and feels the need to take their sweet time to hook up the internet.  So, besides text messaging Twitter and Tumblr updates, you won’t be hearing a lot from me.  So, in [...]

Horrible things.

Well, one thing is truly horrible, the other just has the word in the title.  I’m not one to bash stuff, quite honestly, there’s enough voices on the internet to throw shit into the fan just to have it ricochet back at you, and I choose not to be one of those people, but this [...]

Publishing takes another hit.

Last night, while celebrating a co-worker at Doubledown Media’s birthday, the hot topic of discussion was what Lenny Dykstra is doing to the company.
For those keeping track, the first issue of The Players Club came out in early April, complete with a $400,000 launch party and a ton of favorable publicity about a magazine that [...]

Comics Blogosphere 1, Wizard Magazine 0 (Part 3 million in a saga).

Late last night, while reading Jimmie Robinson’s Bomb Queen V # 1, some absolutely wretched news came my way in the form of Kiel Phegley being let go from Wizard Magazine. I was angry for much of the evening thereafter but upon waking up this morning, I reasoned that there was little to be [...]

SHITTY: Dave Stevens passed away.

Rocketeer creator Dave Stevens died today at the age of 52. For some it was Gary Gyrax dying last week that was a big deal, and whenever someone passes away its always a big deal no matter whether you’re the founder/creator/whatever of Dungeons & Dragons or someone else. Today it is Mr. [...]

Idiots.

Yesterday during my morning commute, I was reading the morning Metro mostly because my friend Jason writes for them. To my shock and awe they ran this story on their front page.
In a city where envy is endemic, where hedge-fund billionaires ride the train with working-class stiffs every day, the holder of that title is [...]

Be Like Chuck

I wrote this a year ago on Feb. 3, before I had this version of my blog. The argument still applies, though now, I like Chuck Klosterman alot more now than I did when I wrote this piece.
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I’ve been reading Chuck Klosterman’s Sex, Drugs, [...]

D.Press(d)

Riding back on the train from New Haven this afternoon with Brendan, Mary and Frank reviewing over what’s been lingering in my thoughts for a while regarding the past year.
There is an ever-present lingering depression that becomes vocal when I’m drinking. This has slowly become a more and more common occurrence.  Especially with my college [...]

It’s bad out there

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Though I came prepared for torrential downpour with rain jacket and umbrella. No E train was running, so I had to walk over to work from 28th street.
Will I make it to this tonight?