September 2008
8 posts
A New Nerdfest Article I Wrote →
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What I'm Watching:
I’ve been making my way through Ken Burns’ World War II documentary mini-series, The War, for the past few days. So far I’ve seen about six of the total fourteen hours and I highly, highly recommend it.
Now, this may be slightly old man-ish, but I love WWII documentaries, I love Ken Burns’ style of the slow pan over a photo while someone with a soothing voice like Tom Hanks reads a quotation, and...
My New Favorite Tumblog →
Inner Monologue of a White Person Singing a Rap...
Oh man, this song is awesome. And it’s rap so it’s like not even singing. Such a good choice. Yo. Yo. Should I do that bobbing thing with my hand? No. Too much. How did I forget about this fast part? Just read the screen. Yo. Ok, just get the last word of the line right. What is gov’ment cheese? Why do these lines rhyme in the actual song, but not when I say them? I guess I have to say them with a...
Possible First Sentences for My Memoirs
(Note: When I have writer’s block, I like to write first sentences for my hypothetical memoirs. It’s not that I’m narcissistic, I just don’t feel qualified to write first sentences for anyone else’s memoirs.)
Frankly, I thought the beginning was really stupid.
“No,” was my usual response.
I wasn’t particularly fond of that kind of thing.
Most of the decisions I...
“A Summer Wasting” by Belle and...
Caption Contest
I post a column on CollegeHumor called the “Caption Contest.” It is, as you can imagine, a contest in which I post a picture and CH users try to write the funniest caption they can.This is NOT a weekly column. I do not choose when this column goes up. It is a column that is posted when we have a gap in the article schedule. The reason I am bringing up this column is that CH users have taken to...
