Question: What do you want to read about on WISB?
I’d really like to know what kinds of things you enjoy about WISB (when it’s in full swing, of course) and what kind of stuff I don’t do that you’d be interested in. I was thinking, for example, of blogging about my first teaching experience in literature, since I taught a lot of stuff outside […]
Homophobia: A Straight Male’s Experience
(I mentioned on Twitter that I was going to write a post on my personal experiences with homophobia. And so…here it is. Don’t expect too many of these kinds of posts, though. I want to get back to books and science fiction and fantasy and other such things.) I’ve made fun of gay people in […]
How To Be Annoying On Twitter
Twitter is a pretty awesome place. But it’s also a network like every other social network: full of weirdos, annoying people, and spammers. Thankfully, we don’t have to follow such people! We can pretend they don’t exist (or make fun of publicly, because that’s fun too). My question is: What are ways people annoy you […]
Debt is Wonderful (*deluding myself*)
I’ve got this whole Google+ thing going on, and today I posted this long comment about something that has been frustrating me today: I’m having one of those “WTF was I thinking when I decided to go to college and take on $31,000 in debt for an English degree, which I’d defer for 6 years […]
Syfy: Will it Destroy Science Fiction?
Criticizing the Syfy channel in the SF community is almost like fulfilling a requirement for entry. After all, the channel plays more wrestling and phony ghost-hunting/crypto-BS than any other channel on cable, which makes it really easy to hate if you’re not into such things. It wasn’t always that way, though. I remember watching old […]
The Florida Grapefruit/Orange Conspiracy
Something is amiss at my local Publix. Something…sinister. I’m calling it a conspiracy managed by disgruntled produce workers to screw with customers because it may very well be the cleverest attempt to force us to buy Florida oranges ever conceived. And they’re doing it through grapefruits. First, some back-story. I recently began eating grapefruits as snacks/meals […]