Blogging For Impulse Control: A Recommendation
Forgotten aspects of the medium for 2024
Advice
How to Cheat at Reading and Writing
failure of principle, principle of failure
Find Your Cult Documentary Niche
As always, half the pleasure of watching a documentary about a cult is evaluating the leader, who is invariably disappointing; I think one of the necessary qualities of cult-leading must be looking disappointing.
The Best Lines From The Free Preview of "A Son Is A Son Till He Gets A Wife: How Toxic Daughters-in-Law Destroy Families"
Maybe you can pass on a book with a subtitle like "How Toxic Daughters-in-Law Destroy Families," but I certainly can't.
Health Advice From Douglas Fairbanks' 1917 Self-Help Manual, "Laugh and Live"
"Yet the average man goes into life with as little knowledge of its forces as the baby who puts its foot upon the third rail."
Free Writing Advice: Jo and Danny on going long
You’ve been on a long writing voyage and I’m on the shore with my hanky.
Let Me Put You Onto Something: A New Way Of Apologizing
There's a limited scope for application, but boy oh boy, within that limited scope -- it works!
Parsing the Queensbury "Posing As Somdomite" Calling Card
"It says 'For Oscar Wilde.'"
"Does it? Are you sure it doesn't say '7 or Uscan Wilche'?"
The Best Mugs
One of the best places to get really top-notch mugs by the way, are those little gift shops you find in art museums and high-end botanical gardens. The only downside is that mugs there are never sold in sets, only as separates, and they are ruinously, even comically expensive.
You May Be Sailing Aboard A Ship Of Fools, But I'm Certainly Not
Oh! I am sorry. You've boarded a ship captained by infirmity, crewed by quarrelers, without navigation or helmsman, beset by violence, senseless, narcotic stupors, mutiny and plotting, raiding of the stores, and abuse of the clear-eyed?