100 Words as a daily writing exercise is over, but I’m going to keep this up.  It won’t be a daily thing (or it might not), but it’ll be a bit of fun, and I intend on getting as many people involved as possible, perhaps even starting up a writing meme.  (Thank you, Shelli, for [...]

A couple weeks back, I posted Two Truths and a Lie, in which I offered up two truths about myself, and one lie.  It was your job to figure out which was the lie, and call me on it.  I only got one response, from “Just Meee”, who believed the lie was:
“I have played five [...]

It was a long time ago, maybe as much as three years, now, when I first outted myself as a affectionado of the weird.  I can’t tell you quite when it began, but there must be some kind of reason for my attraction to that which is truly odd.  Whatever method might be behind my [...]

100 Words is a writing exercise, wherein I take a word and write 100 words about it – no pretense, no agenda, just writing.  Today’s word is “exercise”.
The music blares in the background, pounding out a rhythm of bass, snare, and high hat, thump-tap-crashing to the tempo guiding his feet while horns and guitars and [...]

I’m a geek – or at least a pseudogeek.  As such, I should be going goo-goo over the latest and greatest tech being shown off at Gizmodo, the newest iPhone 3G, or Sony’s Playstation Portable.  And I do!  I’m a closet technophile, loving gadgetry from afar, while largely being unable to drop the type of [...]

I just found this very cool app via The Generator Blog.  It’s called Wordie, and it grabs words from your blog or website and arranges them as a word cloud.  I’m not quite certain what determines the size and position (or color) of each word, but it probably has to do with frequency, relevance, and [...]

100 Words takes a few minutes a day, but it’s a time for me to focus and relax, to create something simple and precise.  I know it was only supposed to be for the month of August, but here August is almost through and I’m beginning to think I might keep it up.  Today?  The [...]

I woke up this morning – well, no… that would be a lie.  I woke up this afternoon to the news of John McCain’s Vice Presidential pick.  You’ve probably already seen or read about it somewhere else, so I’m not going to make this a long, drawn-out discussion, but I do want to say that [...]

100 Words:  A writing exercise in precision and description, wherein I write exactly one hundred words to describe a given subject, a word or phrase which may (or may not) be used in the course of the post.  Today, the term is “roller coaster”.
Spinning out of control, bright lights flared all around.  He wasn’t sure [...]

You know… I almost felt like that last post was disingenuous.  I had a long post, a grand rant, all spelled out, ready to post, then I just sort of deflated and let it go.  It was a form of catharsis, I suppose, a release of pent up emotions and doubts and fears and, well, [...]