open mic nite

Snowy evening, and not many people besides me find a reason to come here to Open Mic Nite at the Irish pub. Surprisingly, everyone so far has been good. Maybe American Idol should come here. They’d get rid of all those funny losers. I come here for the free Internet. Dark enough in here for Continue reading open mic nite

Black Book: dig it.

Y’all gotta keep up with my reading, you hear? Especially since our brand-new Nobel Laureate in Literature is only four years older than me. Yeesh! “The Black Book (Vintage International)” (Orhan Pamuk)

top of the slope

The tops of the Front Range are hidden in the snow clouds. The rain has started out as snow — perfectly disappointing. Or I could say that the snow has started out like rain. Either way, this is the perfect definition day of the start of hibernation. Whether I mean hibernation for bears or for Continue reading top of the slope

How not to write

Find these fonts in your system. Rip them out. LMNOP: America’s Most Fonted: The 7 Worst Fonts Ugly fonts, cutesy fonts, unreadable fonts, bad fonts . . . they have terrorized us for far too long, infiltrating our homes via e-mail, IM, and low-rent ValPak ads. Here, LMNOP presents the seven worst fonts–and the people Continue reading How not to write