Well, I’m in the Wall Street Journal
Posted March 27th, 2010Tags: America's hobbies The Wall Street Journal, Easter, holidays, Merrill Markoe, Passover
Because, you know, I’m such a big player on Wall Street. Read more
Because, you know, I’m such a big player on Wall Street. Read more
May I humbly suggest that everyone who stumbled upon this entry go immediately to google and enter “Dorothy Parker, poems of”. Every so often I re-read them and just want to sing her praises, that’s all. Brilliant is too often repeated a word to describe her work. Here is a perfect 4 line example that makes me gasp every time I read it. Its the end of a poem called “Ballade of a Great Weariness.” Read more
Now that I have gotten in to the habit of blogging on here, I feel kind of guilty when I don’t. I might as well have been raised Catholic. The truth is, I haven’t written anything in a while because I bought a green screen. It started when I saw Avatar and I thought “Hell, I can do that.”. No no. Just kidding. It started when I saw two 8 year old boys on You Tube making green screens with chartreuse construction paper. I said to myself, I said I said, “I can’t be stupider than an eight year old.” Even though I didn’t really want to test myself and learn the horrible truth. Read more
Remember the olden days of the internet , when your aol or earthlink mailbox would fill up with spam for penis extenders and discount viagara? I’m getting a little misty eyed just thinking about that bygone time, back at the beginning of the new century, before sophisticated spam filters came on the scene and disappeared all that stuff for us. Of course that didn’t mean the end of spam by any means. Earlier this year, I had my name stolen by spammers who were running around opening up Twitter and Facebook accounts for me. One minute I was a professional smart ass and then just like that, I was a shill for hot hot hot naked girls. (Although I confess, for a minute I suspected it was part of some kind of massive conspiracy to prevent me from being the last person without a Facebook page.) Read more