12 December, 2009
This is where I live.
Is it too much to ask that my kids’ teachers know at least a little more than my kids? I’m constantly getting emails from school staff with horrible grammar, misspellings, and, of course, what I call the spastic colon (is it really that hard to understand that plural’s don’t get colon’s [...]
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3 December, 2009
If I were king (not queen, not prince, not duke)
I’m the first to admit that I’m easily irritated. At least once a day (though I’ll admit that number can go as high as 40 or 50 times a day), I’ll complain to Joanna about something that really “irritates the shit out of me” (an expression [...]
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1 December, 2009
Gives textbook lesson on how NOT to treat customers.
Note: This article originally appeared on Technorati.
Everyone knew that the Barnes & Noble nook (yes, they irritatingly spell it with an e.e. cummings-style lower case “n”) eReader would be popular. EPUB, eReader and native PDF support, memory expansion, Wi-Fi , the ability to share books among [...]
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27 October, 2009
Yes, we can! (or should, anyway)
I’ve barely cracked the new book SuperFreakonomics, and I’m already running to my computer to bitch. Not about the book; I was a big fan of the first Freakonomics book, and thus far have been enjoying the sequel. But right there in chapter one they bring up some research done [...]
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16 October, 2009
Now with double meaning.
Like Razzles (both a candy and a gum) the phrase “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” now serves double duty. More than just a discriminatory policy, it’s also apparently the answer to the question of when, exactly, it will be chucked.
Sure President Obama told the crowd at the annual Human Rights Campaign dinner this [...]
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10 October, 2009
Or: the decline of civilization (this time it’s real)
Complaints about “young people today” probably go back to the Australopithecus complaining about “those damn kids, what with their evolving, and their using tools to do things, and that whole standing erect thing…” For the most part, these sorts of comments seem to come from a generation [...]
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20 August, 2009
Snot’s running down my nose.
Yeah, I’ll throw a Tull reference in, because that’s just how I roll (also, snot is running down my nose, both literally and figuratively: I’ve been sick with a badger scrotum of a head cold for three days and a mental cold for far longer). Anyway, even if the power-flute of [...]
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14 August, 2009
Because I’m still swamped ’till Monday.
So a bunch of people recently have been asking me about reviews I’ve written outside of all the new Meatist columns I’ve done for New Times. Since I’ve been on the road with my kids and wife for two weeks (5000 miles of driving – which I fucking love to [...]
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Hey You! If you enjoy BITF, you can also read my work at Technorati, Blogcritics, and the New Times, where I write a column called The Meatist. - bcs
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