A World of Speculation

Damick does it again

Andrew Damick poses a question that has puzzled me a lot over the years: Why Should the Devil Get All the Good Music? Instead of bemoaning the incroachment of rock ‘n’ roll into the “sanctuary” or observing that the melody to “The...

They should withhold their next payment

Bloggers are outraged that Dave Winer pulled the plug on their blogs without warning. He’d been hosting 3,000 blogs on his server for free, beginning in 2000. Now, because of time, financial and health demands, he decided that he couldn’t do it any more....

Horror story settings

Amazon.com WidgetsAbandoned buildings talk–they laugh and gibber and shriek like crazy old ladies. The folks at Dark Passage hear them, too.It’s a tour of some of the creepiest places around, like the tunnel that eats light and comes up under the house...

I feel better already

I swear it’s not schadenfreude. The author at debcentral (sorry, I’ve got my wrong glasses on and can hardly see the screen, much less read small white type against a black background) has kindly posted a gallery of her rejections. I’ve got more of...

The Storrow Drive Venus

If Charles Williams were blogging in the 21st century, he might sound something like Stephen Baldwin: . . . as the discarded soda and beer cans bobbed along in the water’s edge like rusting buoys in a brown foam so disgusting that it seemed even the seagulls...