Jarvis Slacks
The Best and Worst of the Best and Worst of 2009: Merry Holidays
And tomorrow I will be taking one of those to see my family, to talk about my life, to reassure them that, yes, I’ll have kids one day, I promise. We need this, don’t we? We need this Christmas. This has been a very weird year. That is what people will say about this year. … Read more
The Best and Worst of the Best and Worst of 2009: Twitter
Twitter is stupid. So are DVDs, Macbooks, videogames and text-messaging. All good things are stupid, at first. Then they become part of our lives like cotton socks and toothpicks. That is why Twitter is so useful. It is a very raw tool that we have taken over and changed to do what we need it … Read more
The Best and Worst of the Best and Worst of 2009: I miss you Battlestar Galactica. I miss you so much….
Like a crack addict that suddenly understood that the crack was free to a point, I consumed Battlestar Galactica until you couldn’t call it consumption. You had to call it something more perverted. I wasn’t just watching the show. I was making the show a part of my digestive system. It was to the point … Read more
The Best and Worst of the Best and Worst of 2009: The Book is Dead. Long Live the Book.
This year has given me a few interesting and substantial changes in my life. The most meaningful one, which is the constant blessing and the constant curse, is my job at the book store. I got this job because my teaching part time pay check was only thick enough to pay my rent. I soon … Read more
The Best and Worst of the Best and Worst of 2009 part 1: Music
I have no idea who Lady Gaga is. So I put her name into the Youtube thingy: What the hell did I just listen to? I’m not sure if you call that mash of words and vocals music. It sounds what I have always envisioned what the mating sound of cloned humans would sound like … Read more
