Jarvis Slacks
How the Apple Tablet will Screw over Poor People
So, apparently, the amazing and most important company that was ever created by human beings is releasing the often rumored and much desired Apple Tablet! It is the Apple Tablet! It is made by Apple and, uh, it is a Tablet! I mean, think of it like the iPhone, but, you know, bigger and more … Read more
Public Transportation Works can Create jobs?
Yeah, Public Transportation sometimes sucks. You have to find out what time the bus runs before you go anywhere, the bus sometimes smells like an armpit, and it isn’t as comfortable as sitting in an expensive car and sitting in traffic for four hours a day. But I don’t mind it for a number of … Read more
Mass Effect 2 is next week. Also, I lose both my jobs and have to live on the streets because I’m going to play it too much. Haha! Joking! Maybe….
Next week, Mass Effect 2 comes out. Also next week, I won’t be sleeping much and I think I might lose eight or nine pounds. I have survived for the past six-months by only watching one trailer. Just one. I am spoiler-free and that feeling is a good feeling.The original Mass Effect had a number, … Read more
Impressions: The Book of Eli
The book of Eli is pretty much exactly how you think it is going to be. So, there isn’t a way I can really spoil it. Just watch the previews and then fill in a few blanks. Denzel Washington has a book and he is taking the book somewhere. Bad people with big guns and … Read more
Life After The MFA: The Imperfect Art of Revision
The worst part about being a writer is telling people that you’re a writer AND that you work two jobs and you are, currently, thirty-two and living with roommates, car-less, and that you have no real 401K or retirement plan to speak of. It is the constant struggle of all writers to justify calling themselves … Read more
No. It isn’t OK to call us, “Negros”. Thanks for asking…
I want to explain this whole “Negro” thing. I am from the South, a place where the Racism conversation has gone on for longer than the Earth has been formed. The good thing about living in the South is that the Race conversation is done. We’ve talked it out and we’ve concluded that some people … Read more
The New A-Team Trailer shows, of course, stuff blowing up.
To be honest, I can count on my fingers how many times I’ve watched the A-Team. I have the sneaky suspicion that the same can be said for most of society. Did we really like this show? A group of dudes that were wrongfully accused of something have to drive in a big van and body-slam people. … Read more
News Rodeo! Exploding Underwire! Kids Turn In Their Dad to the Cops! Planet-Starbucks, Coming Soon!
The first News Rodeo of the New Year! And, uh, some guy tried to blow his penis off. I don’t have all the details, but some guy from Europe flew into Detroit, realized how horrible a city it is, shaked up a can of Pepsi and tried to explode his penis. In other news…Wait..Huh? He’s a … Read more
Tiger Woods, Vanity Fair, and why the Jerks always win…
One of the first things I do when I teach a class of writing is have my students analyze a picture. This allows two things to happen. The first, they begin to understand that writing is about putting your thoughts down in a cohesive, thoughtful way that other people can extrapolate your thoughts from. The … Read more
The Horrible Mistake which was Spider-man’s “UnMarrying…”
It was only a couple of years ago, but I remember it like it was a few seconds ago, with the comic still in my hand. And io9 had to remind me of it this morning as I did my morning vacation ritual of blog reading-coffee drinking-emailing. It was Amazing Spider-man. In the comic, the … Read more
