So this MC Masala is for him, and for a great biology teacher. I don't remember his words. I remember that femur landing softly on my lab table.... Mr. Porter reminded me that excellence was …
I wonder how many of these promises their makers kept.
I thought Alan Furst's Dark Star would be a science-fiction novel, probably because I confused it with the film of the same name. Now that I'm two-thirds through, I've firmly convinced myself that it's Yet …
And I thought Gary Kamiya's Salon retrospective affected me! The letters to the editor warm my heart. I grew up reading Salon, if you can fathom that.... Without equivocation or exaggeration, I can say that …
I'm transcribing some comics from Spamusement!. It's made me pay more attention to the details and buried assumptions in many strips, e.g., "its not even funny when you do that".
When I last saw Eric, we had a wide-ranging conversation. We talked about flatmates, and music (what with being at the TMBG show), and our careers, and the shape of the tech industry. We laughed …
Gary Kamiya writes a funny and poignant review of Salon's ten-year history.
Fred Clark mused recently on the use and misuse of the word "professional." The word these days basically means "polite" or "courteous" rather than "competent at one's trade or craft," but commenters argue over whether …
I hear complaints about Salon's redesign and feel the urge to dismiss them as the rants of a cranky, vocal minority. But now that Arrested Development is either cancelled or about two inches from cancelled, …
