I’m a little cranky because I just read an awful graphic novel and bad books make me angry. There might be extra vitriol in tonight’s rant when normally there would just be the regular amount of vitriol. You’ve been warned.
Actually, graphic novels have something to do with my resolution. Long about yesterday I decided I [...]
Posts Tagged: partly bitchy
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Jan 10
Two resolutions: One for me & one for the Internet
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Jan 10
Leno v. Conan is more like Baby Boomers v. GenX
This is the obligatory I know there are more important things going on in the world right now statement required by the Society of Blog Readers for Pointing Out You’re Shallow & Pointless.
This whole Leno vs. Conan thing really makes me angry. It’s indicative of the whole Baby Boomer vs. GenX battle that has been [...]
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Dec 09
Things that can go the way of the dodo in 2010, part 1
I’m not one to make predictions being that I have such an abysmal record. For instance, “Nobody will ever stop reading the actual newspaper and get their news on the Internet.” Or, “Who wants a phone/calendar/PDA all in one, that’s dumb.”
Jodi, the great prognosticator.
It’s my penchant for picking the exact opposite of what will [...]
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Dec 09
How to annoy the hell out of everyone on the Internet: A follow-up
This a crabby, bitchy follow-up to How to Succeed in Blogging without Really Trying, and inspired in part by my own ire (I’ve been surfing a lot lately looking for blog topics for work) and this tweet from Barrett.
Truncate your RSS Feed. Advertise in your RSS Feed while truncating it. Post only headlines in your [...]
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Nov 09
Angry at a book, an incoherent rant
The book I’m reading (which shall remain nameless for the time being) has just gone from being kind of annoying to actually making me angry. So angry that I cannot seem to stop writing snarky comments in the margins. Things like, “really, really people loved to hate Bill Gates in the late 80s?” Because, [...]
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Nov 09
I blame the musicbloggers
Earlier today I was having a conversation via Twitter with Kyle Matteson (@solace) about the A.V. Club’s Best Music of the Decade list. I took issue with the fact that this is a best of the decade list by a sort of indie-pub and there were five bands on the list I’d never, ever heard [...]
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Nov 09
The SciFi crybabies are at it again
I caught this piece about International Science Fiction Reshelving Day (November 18th) over on the Magers & Quinn blog yesterday and it made me laugh. Being a bookstore, their concern regarding ISFRD is legitimate. Being a bitch, mine is haughty.
The mere fact that the SciFi nerds have a day where they can “reclaim” books [...]
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Oct 09
You can learn a lot from a quack
Have I told you about my brother-in-law Ben getting his masters degree in holistic healing arts or, as Sister #2 and I like to call it, quackery? (Once I mistakenly called it Voodoo and then had to sit through a 18-minute lecture about how Voodoo is a real and valid religion and I shouldn’t be [...]
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Sep 09
The equinox is bringing me down
The change of seasons is fucking with me. I love fall and usually spend much time rejoicing in the cooler weather and school supplies. But this year it’s just putting me on edge, making my skin greasy, and generally leaving me feeling unsatisfied.
I want to gnash my angry monkey teeth at the world and kick [...]
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Apr 09
She totally ruined it for me
You must live in a box if you don’t know novelist J.G. Ballard died a little over a week ago. I never read anything by him and probably never will. This has nothing to do with his reputation as a writer, which from what I read is pretty good. It has a little bit to [...]
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Apr 09
Fallen off the horse
Do you ever have those periods of time where you feel like the most boring person on the planet? I’ve gotten so boring I’m convinced that my brain is atrophying and now I brush my teeth with my left hand. I read somewhere that brushing your teeth with your opposite hand will help your brain [...]
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Apr 09
Enough with Susan Boyle you awful, judgmental pricks
I’m sure by now you’ve seen the video of Susan Boyle singing some song from Les Miserables on Britain’s Got Talent. If you haven’t wait about 4 minutes someone will forward it to you, link to it, tweet about it, or post it on their Facebook profile. The video is unavoidable and every time I [...]
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Jan 09
How to succeed in blogging without really trying
I blog a lot. I read blogs all day. I’ve been blogging a long, long time (8.5 years). My actual job title? Blogger. I know that of which I speak. So take this advice to heart. Here are my tips on how to succeed at blogging without really trying:
First of all you have to call [...]
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Jan 09
A short list of things I have bitched about today, a list by someone who is apparently cranky
Book publishers’ such awful, ugly, and unhelpful Web sites. An animated gif as your logo? REALLY?
Literary Magazines’ equally ugly Web sites.
How I often put my lunch in the oven and then promptly forget about until I can smell it burning.
Why iTunes insists on playing the Indigo Girls on shuffle when I do not want to [...]
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Nov 08
I am so glad I am not 20 anymore
Hi, I am a 20-something knucklehead who is pissed off when the world doesn’t revolve around me like it should, and this makes me get all bitter because a bunch of 30somethings went to go see another bunch of 30somethings play rock and roll at a time that was not convenient to me. Wah! [...]
