Posted on June 8, 2010
Drill, Baby, Drill!
You may have noticed a conspicuous lack of my ramblings last week. I assure you, I did not die, nor was I horribly maimed in some terrible accident that left me disfigured and without the use of my typing fingers. What did happen, however, was that the devil decided to swing by to do a little cloven hoofed tap dancing on my soul, and it’s taken me awhile to recover. In less dramatic terms, I had a toothache.
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Posted on May 26, 2010
Step Parenting 101
I’ve been thinking about Father’s Day coming up in June, so today I’m giving you a short and sweet guide to being a stepfather. And, while this may seem like a fairly specific sort of thing that has the potential to alienate a large chunk of my readers and drive them away to other websites filled with less niche-related bibblebabble, I promise you it’s not. It’s good advice for any parent, step or otherwise. It might even be a little bit funny.
Step parents get a bad rap in pop culture and fairy tales, and we don’t fare much better in the blood-obsessed nuclear family fiction of the real world, either. In stories, we’re evil and heartless bastards who either care nothing for our stepchildren, or have the annoying habit of trying to bake them into pies all the time. In the mind of your average sitcom viewer, we’re bumbling fools and inconsistent sources of unsteady drama. We’re the extra bits tacked onto the the points of the Mom, Dad and Child triangle that make it stick out at embarrassing angles all the other shapes point at and laugh. In short, we’re not worth very much to anybody. That’s the stereotype. Read More
Posted on May 25, 2010
A Tale of Two Series
It was the best of shows, it was the worst of shows; it was the series of wisdom, it was the series of foolishness; it was the plot of belief, it was the plot of incredulity; it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness; it was the cave of hope, it was the drain plug of despair; we had answers before us, we had questions before us; we were all going directly to series finale Heaven, we were all going the other way.
Lost was a great television series crippled by its own success and lack of foresight. It was lazy writing and bad storytelling mixed with flashes of brilliance and inspiration. It was filled with wonder and mystery that was befouled by a really craptastical final season, which itself was capped off by a finale filled with copouts and heartstring-plucking inanity. It was all of these things, and I’m both happy and sorry that I bothered watching any of it. Read More
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