So, there’s just no cool way to put this, but I really like editing.  I just do.  Taking something that’s a train-wreck of confusion or waste or sloppiness and creating something beautiful.  Harmony from chaos.  As loyal, devoted, almost fanatical readers may recall, I’ve been working on a commercial lately, and we shot last week, […]

Every year, I get pretty involved with a canned food drive here.  This year, one of the coordinators suggested I help out with the delivery of the care packages on the morning of Christmas Eve.  “You’ve done the hard work part,” he said.  “This is the payoff.  I warn you, though, you’re going to be […]

In this, the season of gift-giving – second only in importance to the days leading up to July 9 (my birthday) – people can get addled and frustrated as they try to get the gifts wrapped.  In fact, you wouldn’t believe how many emails I get from people frustrated in their attempts in wrap presents […]

Today will be the first day of Hanukkah this year, and I was planning this post about it, about the way that our society – in a painfully awkward attempt to be inclusive – turns this minor Jewish holiday into what people assume is the biggest occasion of all.  To gentiles everywhere Judaism consists of […]

As we get closer to the holidays, perhaps it’s time to turn the mood to the positive, the festive.  Because while it’s true that some things about the holiday season are trying and awful, there are always those things that get under you skin and, try as you might to not, you just love them. […]

One of the things that the Internet has done is mainstream what had previously been tucked away out of sight.  Fringe interests. One of those that doesn’t involve bodily fluids, is the apparently very popular hobby of Lego Re-Enactments. There are people who do Lego re-enactments of history: Of Movies: Of Religious Text: And recently […]

7 Reasons Why You Should “Like” The Byronic Man on Facebook: I like being liked.  If you like something, and I like that you did, you may like knowing that.  Look at that!  We are exponentially increasing the happiness in the world!  This could very well start a chain reaction, like a cup of water […]

My wife is one of the most intelligent people I’ve ever met.  Truly.  She reads Russian novels for fun.  She goes to the opera and gets it.  Which is not to suggest that I’m married to Lady Snootybottom of Floggingpeasant Estate or anything, she’s fun and goofy and everything.  It’s just that her intellect is […]