Once a month, some friends and I go to this pub-trivia competition. It’s teams of 4, 9 rounds of trivia, in a no-holds-barred, winner takes all, melee of intellectual carnage! (that’s possibly an exaggeration) It’s also a fund-raiser for Rwandan schools, which can be a bit embarrassing to forget when you can’t remember, say, exactly […]
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Recently voted "The Best Humor Site in America That I, Personally, Write," The Byronic Man is sometimes fiction, but sometimes autobiography. And sometimes cultural criticism. Oh, and occasionally reviews. Okay, it's all those different things, but always humorous. Except on the occasions that it's not. Ah, geez. Look, it's a lot of things, okay? You might like it, is the point.Please Hire Me To Be Apple’s New Visionary
October 8, 2011
It is very, very sad that Steve Jobs has passed away, for many reasons, of course; but for we, the world, it is mostly for the loss of his vision, and the incredible things he surely had yet to create. And while he had resigned from Apple shortly before his death, he could only ever […]
“You Say It’s Your Birthday!” (dun dun dun dun dun!) “It’s… WHOSE Birthday, Too??”
October 5, 2011
You know that conversation where you talk about famous people who share your birthday? I do not enjoy that conversation. I think of this not because it’s my birthday (It was in July. You missed it. Don’t you feel awful?), but because another sad chapter has been added. I was talking with a couple friends […]
Rebel With A Versatile Cause
October 2, 2011
A couple of bloggers have been kind enough to name me for the Versatile Blogger award. (That’s why I’ve been in absentia for a few days now – I was at the awards ceremony in Copenhagen. Well, I assumed there was an awards ceremony, and that it was in Copenhagen, but couldn’t seem to find […]
7 Reasons You Should Care About the 20th Anniversary Re-Issue of Nirvana’s Nevermind
September 27, 2011
It’s just so, so, so much better than you remember it being. When’s the last time you listened to Sgt. Pepper’s? Or Led Zeppelin IV? Or Thriller? Long time, right? Because even if you thought about it, albums like that feel like their permanently etched in the brain. Like you’ve heard it so much, it’s […]
It’s Like They Say: When the Toddler Breaks Out The Teeny Fiddle, Things Are Looking Bleak. (Well, They Should Say That)
September 25, 2011
Went to a music festival here in town yesterday, a big celebration of area musicians. It was one of those things where you have to sit directly in front of whoever you’re listening to, in order to avoid hearing 8 other bands at the same time. About a hundred performers ranging from crazy impressive to […]
Your Handy, Informative “Falling-Satellite Survival Guide”
September 21, 2011
As you may have heard, the UARS satellite, first put in orbit in 1991, will be coming out of orbit on Friday. The satellite, which weighs 6.5 tons and is about the size of a school bus, will burn up on re-entry… mostly. NASA scientists speculate that approximately 26 pieces of debris will survive re-entry […]
So You Want To Be A Stand-Up Comedian…
September 18, 2011
As some of my readers know, for several years I was a professional stand-up comic (there’s a little more detail on the Author Page). Well, yesterday, a young, aspiring comic climbed the distant mountain where I sit, contemplating the higher dimensions of humor, to ask my advice. I kind of laughed (in a sagely, slightly […]
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