Author Archives: alex

I tickle easily.

A little bird told me…

Sweat-drip-drop, off the workman’s clock.
@kylecallahan Oooh, hitting the scene. Sure you’re ready?
Coffee and a chocolate croissant from Elephant’s, listening to Bob D., pondering the prospects of the day.
At work for a long day. But hey, I made good time on the crossword today, so I’m feeling on top of the world.
Being offered a kitten.
So, it [...]

Cognitive Anarchy; or, Get A Job, Slacker!

I was still in the basement - it was my friend’s basement, but not really - and had finally finished picking up all the keys that had scattered across the concrete floor when I dropped the weird little drawer. I say “keys”, but they were actually uncut keys. I’ve had some exposure to [...]

A Look at Sports Fandom

Explaining sports fandom to a non-fan is difficult. For the fan it’s often simply “natural.” That is, caring about a sports team stems from something beyond our ability to precisely rationalize. I’ve tried to explain this, taking a number of different approaches, with varying degrees of success. Or, at least varying degrees of willingness in [...]

Cashing In

There’s an “article” in NYT about trendy advertisers cashing in on the classic Christmas movie, ‘A Christmas Story’. From the adver..er..article: “A commercial for Cingular Wireless by the Atlanta office of BBDO Worldwide, part of the Omnicom Group, recreates the central narrative of the film in 30 seconds, replacing the BB gun that Ralphie [...]

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