Posted on September 8, 2009
Sine Qua Non
I am now a grown-up. At thirty-four years old, I’ve somehow managed to avoid the pitfalls of encroaching adulthood and sidestep the devious placement of its various landmines for over three decades now, but it’s finally caught up to me. Sure, I’ve known that it’s been gaining ground for months now, but I always managed to outrun it before and I could do it again – or so I thought. Read More
Posted on September 1, 2009
Thus Spake Bloggerthustra!
(note: I originally intended this reflection on the Blogosphere to be my 200th post, but I miscounted and overshot the mark, hitting the 201st post by mistake. I am, against all demonstrable evidence to the contrary and with overwhelming improbability, apparently fallible after all. Who knew?!) I am not an Overman, but I play one on the Internet. Well, not really. I do play a character here, as do all of the people in my life, but the truth is that the grand literary house I’ve built on the hallowed grounds of the world wide web is, and always has been, a work of creative nonfiction. It’s been right there in my sidebar all along, wrapped in the warm blanket of nouns and verbs I call a Disclaimer. For those of you who are unfamiliar with what creative nonfiction is, I suggest getting an education. Barring that, I recommend reading some Lee Gutkind, Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer, Hunter Thompson or, to an extent, Harlan Ellison. If, however, predicates and participles scare you, then think of creative nonfiction in movie terms: Based On A True Story. Read More
Posted on August 27, 2009
Slice, Dice, And Trip The Light Fantastic
The chicken nuggets were a hit. I’ll give you the recipe, but you’re probably not going to like it. In fact, if you count yourself within the ranks of the epicurean geek corps of The Alton Brown Army, you’ll absolutely hate it. I say this not because the dish is in any way inferior to the results of Mr. Brown’s culinary acumen, but simply because I don’t go in for pesky annoyances like measurements and baking times. I’m a dumper and a taster, and I cook things until they’re done. For acolytes of Archchancellor Brown’s school of cookery, not measuring things out to the within the most anal retentive degrees of absolute accuracy is the stuff of heretics and heathens. For people more interested in how things taste than how things work, however, dumping and tasting is the accepted dogma when it comes to working in the kitchen and creating truly good eats. Read More
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