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All apologies for not updating again yesterday - after the very long blog entry I wrote, it was simply too frustrating to contemplate. Coming up with interesting blog entries is hard work when neither your profession nor your life is particularly interesting, I've come to realize. It's forced me to resort to gimmicks and punditry, while [...]

I wrote a huge blog entry today, but because I took so long writing it the site logged me out, and when I went back after logging in again I had lost everything I wrote. I'm much too annoyed/enraged right now to start over, but I'll try to update again later today.

As I mentioned in passing yesterday, I met up with my pal Justin, an old college buddy, for a few wobbly pops and some appetizers at my favorite neighbor, Applebee?s, last night. Since college, we?ve made it a point to keep the fraternal bond strengthened no matter where the day took us. Anyway, there we sat [...]

This past weekend I attended my friend Justin?s 30th Birthday. As is customary for the occasion, I draped myself in black, set to mimic my mood - like that rainy day?s tempestuous sky - the color of television tuned to a dead channel (a bonus prize awaits the person who can e-mail me the source [...]

"Not for the first time, Richard reflected that this age's vaunted 'communications industry' had chiefly provided people and nations with the means of frightening to death and simultaneously boring to extinction themselves and each other." --Fritz Leiber, The Wanderer, 1964