Where do you start when you hear everything at once?
While watching the Superbowl, my friend Rebecca and I discovered that what went came out of the TV speakers as went into our ears as
Jokes about New Jersey (“What Exit?”), like jokes about Wisconsin (“Cheese & Beer & Snow“), are easy to come by. I’ve spent my first two and past 12 years in Wisconsin, but my mother was raised in New Jersey, and I still return (not as often as I’d like) to visit my cousins and friends [...]
I was angry when Ralston-Purina, focusing their energies on the chocolate chip flavor, stopped production of vanilla Cookie Crisp. I was nine years old. I wrote them a letter. And so began my political activism, and relative indifference toward chocolate.
I couldn’t stomach it the first time through in real time, but I just finished watching the debate online. It was more of the same from Clinton, who benefited from the first 40 minutes of the debate being devoid of substance. ABC/Disney and the Clinton Clan have a lot to gain from each others’ success, [...]
Part I Home from college at the end of my first year, I was hanging out in my parents’ yard with a small group of close friends who still lived full-time in the town where I grew up. I’d just come outside after a long shower. Fumbling for a cigarette, I asked Nat for a [...]
I’m obviously by no means the first to criticize modern news media. Moreover, when I do get my feathers ruffled by it, it’s not because of corporate ownership and the like, which many of my friends are much quicker to criticize. I don’t mind editorializing; in fact, I love it. What I do mind is [...]
Tangents for the Chasing
