Category: Rants
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Writing Mad
As a freelance editor, I’ve been witness to some Ishtar-level disasters of spelling, punctuation, word choice and sentence construction. On one level, I am grateful for the business. But on another level, I am consistently disheartened when I read a graduate thesis written by someone with a clear phobia of commas. Please don’t misunderstand me — I don’t…
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Completely Odious Hollywood Phenomena, Part I
Everybody can see that Michael Cera plays virtually the same character in every movie, right? He brings the same nebbish, quirky persona to Juno, Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, Year One and, undoubtedly, whatever his next release is. Cera is by no means the only offender (read: Al Pacino, Will Smith, Matthew McConaughey) but, while his peers may rely…
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5 Epiphanies You Have At 36
1.) The music of Bruce Hornsby suddenly stirs your soul. 2.) You curse your favorite baseball team for signing an over-the-hill player… and he’s 2 years younger than you. 3.) A current first-year college student was born in 1993 – the year you started college. 4.) They are remaking the classic movies of your youth.…
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There’s No Saving The Pro Bowl. Or Is There?
It’s nothing new under the Hawaiian sun that the NFL Pro Bowl has, for years, failed miserably to achieve its main objective: to entertain fans (that sentence may be an early contender for Understatement of 2012). For as long as my NFL memory stretches, the game has at its best been watchable for about a…
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Common Myths Debunked. Thank Me Later.
In recent years, I’ve become interested in dispelling myths. Well, not me personally – that takes a lot of effort and enterprise, two qualities that wax and wane greatly within me. But I am possessed with discovering the story behind the story when it comes to commonly held beliefs. And by discovering, I mean performing…
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Odds & Ends (Or, A Lame Excuse For Not Actually Writing A Post)
The “random thoughts” column has been around for awhile. Normally given a moniker like “odds & ends” or “clearing out the desk drawer,” it’s basically an excuse for a columnist to throw out a bunch of disjointed observations and opinions in lieu of actually expending the energy to craft a coherent piece. It seems that…
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A Post About Movie Posters
Take a look at any movie poster from the early ’80s or ’70s and one thing stands out- they’re incredibly wordy. Whereas nowadays there’s just a short tagline, back then they threw paragraphs on there. Seriously, sometimes it looks like they stapled the entire script to the poster. I understand that we all have the…
Geoff Wondering 