November 10, 2011

a stretch

Nanomopoblowing away over here.  I keep procrastinating and writing at night which isn’t really the best idea but is generally how I roll.  Also, this little Social Media Guru in my head (she’s a stock photo and she’s wearing a pencil skirt and holding a clipboard and she has glasses and straightened hair, don’t [...]

January 17, 2011

5000 Points

Last time we hit Chuck E Cheese with the Chipmunk, it didn’t go badly exactly. But it wasn’t awesome either. It was a couple of years ago, so he was really too small to do anything. The playground scared him and most of the little moving kiddie rides scared him, and he was too [...]

November 10, 2010

fleeing from the fleeting freak-outs

Last year, I read an article about the nature of websites like Twitter and Facebook causing people to have scaled down, brief reactions to tragedy and violence and horror. Because of the quick flow of information, it explained, users were more likely to have a quick—soon to be replaced—response. People on Twitter, it claimed, [...]