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On Inception, The Passage, and Writing in The Obama Era

By On July 19, 2010 · 2 Comments · In Reviews, Writing

The weakness of “It’s all a dream” — why we hate that, why we feel cheated when narratively anything is revealed to be all a dream — is that you’ve just asked me to spend so much time and emotional capital investing in the stakes of this, and you’ve now swept it [...]

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Shout-Outs: Lanier, Wendig and the Robots

By On January 24, 2010 · 8 Comments · In Personal

“The combination of hive mind and advertising has resulted in a new kind of social contract. The basic idea of this contract is that authors, journalists, musicians, and artists are encouraged to treat the fruits of their intellects and imaginations as fragments to be given without pay to the hive mind. Reciprocity takes the form [...]

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Hanging with the Estefans on Ellis Island

By On May 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Personal

One of the best things about working for a publisher based out in the Midwest is that I sometimes get to play Peter Parker at events in New York City when no one from a particular magazine can attend. A few weeks back, it was the NY Round Table Writers Conference thanks to Writer’s Digest, [...]

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History of the Bronx, For Kids

By On April 12, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Personal

I have very mixed emotions about the Bronx, where I grew up for the first 12 years of my life (1969-1980), and which remains the closest thing I have to a place I consider home, in a cultural sense. Being able to live there again while my kids were still young was [...]

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Everything’s amazing, nobody’s happy

By On March 1, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Personal

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“We live in an amazing, amazing world, and it’s wasted on the crappiest generation of spoiled idiots that don’t care.” [1:30]

I’ve never seen Louis CK in action before, but my favorite humor is the insightful observational kind and this clip is hilarious, primarily because it’s all so true.

I say burn [...]

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