Archive for February, 2009
We Wuz Robbed
Sunday, February 22nd, 2009The fact that Mickey Rourke isn’t leaving the Oscar podium with a golden statue in one hand and one of his little lap-dogs in the other means, well, the American Dream is officially dead. If only because America has now been denied what would probably have been the Oscar Acceptance Speech for the Ages, or [...]
Black Iron Burger
Saturday, February 21st, 2009So I open my apartment mailbox to find it stuffed with mail-order weapons catalogs. Hundreds of glossy pages devoted to ammunition, exotic holsters, “upgrade kits” for scary-looking rifles held, in the accompanying image, by scarier-looking men. Startled, I flip these over and take a look at the address field; they belong to my downstairs neighbor; [...]
Wall Street Op-Ed
Thursday, February 12th, 2009No sooner do I link to the Inglorious Basterds trailer than, in a totally unrelated event, someone sends me a link to the Wall Street Journal’s op-ed piece on Trader Monthly, and my elation over a new Tarantino magnum opus is suddenly replaced by the overpowering urge to duck under my desk.
“Oh, there were cars: [...]
Inglorious
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009Especially these days, it’s hard to know where you’ll be week-to-week, much less six months from now. But I know where I’ll be on August 21, roughly between the hours of 6 and 8pm.
Front and center for this.
With A Special Guest Appearance by Stephen King
Monday, February 9th, 2009When I was but a wee lad, I found a dog-eared – so to speak – copy of Stephen King’s Cujo in the desk of my fifth-grade math class, left there by some bygone student as a sort of Excalibur with which to fight the mind-crushing dragon of pre-algebra. By the time I had flipped [...]
The Implosion of Doubledown Media: A Media Destruction Tale
Friday, February 6th, 2009For those perhaps too lazy to click over to the ‘About Nick’ page: I worked at Doubledown Media to within a week of its well-publicized demise. It let me travel to exotic destinations (Cuba, Capri, etc.), pick up a few mildly noxious habits (Cuban cigars, single-malt scotch, etc.) and desperately try to piece together a [...]
New Gig
Monday, February 2nd, 2009So I have a new gig at eWeek.com, as a staff editor. My byline on each piece of online news uses my proper name, because that’s how it was inputted into the system when I arrived, and it’s grown on me as a way as splitting off the subject matter I’m writing about now (tech) [...]