The secret to writing a successful humor column….
… is something I know nothing about. Nevertheless, I can’t count the number of times people come up to me on the street, at the unemployment office or in the women’s locker room at my […]
Tag: blogging
Blogging Bad, But Keeping It Happy
My wife told me the other day that I was blogging too much “downer” stuff, which puzzled me. Mostly, I write two things: humor, and “buy my stuff!” Usually I try to combine the two, […]
FAA to Limit Blogging by Air Traffic Controllers
SCHENECTADY, N.Y. Floyd Curtin has been an air traffic controller at Mookie Wilson International Airport here for nearly twenty years, but he is more widely-known as “Rat Dog,” the “screen name” he uses for his […]
ZOMBIE BLOGGER
I wasn’t always this way. Two years ago I didn’t have a clue as to how to turn on a computer. Didn’t even know what Safari or Internet Explorer was. I’d see my kids feverishly […]
Going Viral
I recently talked to a blogger who gets thousands of hits a day. Desperate to learn his secrets, I imagined cuffing and coercing him into an isolated room with two chairs, a metal table, and lighting designed specifically to intimidate. I saw myself tossing back a shot of whiskey, lighting a cigar, […]
On Writing: Today I Fight Back
So. This is the part where I try to let go and be freer in my writing, because people are making me suggesting it. It’s the part where I acknowledge that I’m excessively enamored with semi-colons, spot-on grammar and words […]
Daily Affirmations For Busy Bloggers
I had a rough day yesterday. I write a certain blog for a Very Large Newspaper, and while it wouldn’t be professional of me to go into details, I can boil down what happened for […]
Alec Baldwin is a Dick
Alec Baldwin is a dick. He knows he’s a dick. Everyone who has sniffed the downwind of his previous antics is fully aware he’s a dick. And anyone caught in the upwind of his current […]