> I am an honest person. If I see someone drop some money on the ground I return it. If the grocery store forgets to ring something up I point it out. I am sometimes brutally honest when people ask me questions (I try to make sure I let people… Read the Rest »
Napster should have been the wake up call. The splash of hot coffee across the lap. The world of art and intellectual property was changed forever but the big media conglomerates thought they could put the rabbit back in the hat. They have spent the last 11 years trying but… Read the Rest »
I wonder how many people actually stole Abbie Hoffman’s brilliantly marketed counter culture book. I bet quite a few people felt obligated to do it. The nature of the book seemed to demand it. Ultimately, the publisher who put the book in bookstores had no desire to see you steal… Read the Rest »
Last year will go on record as the worst year ever for me reading books. How bad was it? My average for the previous five years was 150 books read a year. This last year I checked in at a measly 70. This is a direct by- product of my… Read the Rest »
I want to say that I started and stopped another blog about my family. I didn’t have it in me tonight. Later this week maybe. In the meantime I wanted to think about something else. I decided in honor of Halloween I would post my all-time favorite horror novels. Once… Read the Rest »
I have read a bunch of blogs about being a geek recently and it got me to thinking about the one area I really am a geek. I have a lot to choose from between video games, computers, gadgets, my unhealthy love affair with zombies. Nothing really compares to where… Read the Rest »
Neil Gaiman posted a tweet this week about comfort books. I really liked the concept of it and realized that like many avid readers I do have comfort books, books I go to when I am depressed or mad. For a lot of people it was old favorites. Books that… Read the Rest »
> I know exactly when my fascination with zombies started. I was nine years old and my mom was as usual over at a neighbors house partying. I was suppose to be asleep but I wasn’t. I was doing what I always did. I had snuck down to the TV… Read the Rest »