Category: Rants
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I Don’t Do Twitter, So Here Are My “Tweets”
I don’t do Twitter. Look, I’ve tried, but it’s just not my thing. For one thing, I find it a limiting format. With the character restriction, you inevitably have to employ a bunch of abbreviations and symbols, and a simple message often ends up looking like gobbledygook (as an aside, that’s the first time I’ve…
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Sex Spam Sender Signatures Seem Strange
I think we can all agree that the email spam folder is a godsend. It separates the wheat of actual messages from known senders from the chaff of marketing ploys for reverse mortgages and financial entreaties from rando scammers “in peril” in Chad. However, I’ve found out the hard way that sometimes messages from some of my writing and editing clients…
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No, Finding Dory Is Not Good
I know I’m a bit late to the party writing about a movie that was released almost two weeks ago (I saw Dory the day after it came out), but sometimes I like to let a moviegoing experience marinate for awhile. In our “hot take” society, we throw out instantaneous reactions to everything because, well, Twitter/Snapchat/Facebook.…
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When Nostalgia Turns To Horror
I made a long-overdue visit to my family in Tucson this past week. As a proud native New Englander, I sometimes shake my head that in disbelief my entire immediate family now calls the western U.S. home. But, I’m one of them, soooo…anyway, my mother was giving me a tour of her new house. It’s…
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One Man’s Odyssey For A Cheap Haircut
Driving through Southeast Portland last week, an almost ineffable feeling hit me. It was initially a slight irritation, growing more persistent as the minutes crawled on. Annoyance soon gave way to quiet desperation. Eventually, I could ignore it no longer. Okay, I know this lead-up might be giving some of you false hope that I’m describing the…
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Dropping The Blogging Ball (Again)
Well, I dropped the blogging ball again this month (fyi, it’s optic yellow like a tennis ball, bound in leather and several times heavier than a bowling ball). So many other writing projects kicked my ass so hard that I couldn’t squeeze the time in for a real blog post. In fact, I’ve actually been fitted…
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Going To Starbucks Can Be A Singularly Annoying Experience
Starbucks catches a lot of flak for its ubiquitousness, $5 lattes, just-short-of-snobbish air, and the feeling you get that the person taking your order possesses two more graduate degrees than yourself. But when you get down to it, these are minor quibbles. The brainchild of Howie Schultz, like any other mega-successful venture, has hit…
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Blogs Are Mostly Terrible
I realize that the title of this post may seem incendiary and perhaps even a bit hypocritical. No, wait — hypocritical isn’t quite what I’m going for here. Damn, can’t come up with the right description. Maybe if I was a better blogger, the words would just pour forth from my fingertips like self-aggrandizement from The…
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A Short List Of My Favorite People At The Gym
I go to the gym regularly. Working out is pretty monotonous, so I end up people-watching much of the time…until the instructor angrily asks me to leave the hot yoga class because I’m creeping the participants out. I have noticed, though, that this weird little ecosystem does contain some sharply-defined characters. Here are five. Let me…
Geoff Wondering 