Monthly Archives: September 2008

log begat web log begat blog begat primordial ooze

Blogs aren’t really what they are or were supposed to be at least by the raw definition of the term.  Inevitably boring and certainly unnecessary if not utterly tautological (as is the term “utterly tautological”) is any well-known and understood definition. Nevertheless, for the sake of philosophically and academically sturdy rhetoric, nothing tacit remains tacit. [...]
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No more boring cover letters, or call me Pinky.

Cover letters are stupid. Just like blogs. Does anyone read them? I don’t know. Yes and no, I suppose. Does anyone write them? Yes, we all do. Most of them are so blah, blah, blah embarrassing. I vow that I shall never write another boring cover letter. If the people who read it don’t [...]
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I want to do this with my cello almost every day!

As a kid growing up in east Dallas, I used to throw my old shoes under the house. That way I wouldn’t have to wear them again. I could have just thrown them away or donated them to Goodwill or something. Throwing them under the house, however, was more cathartic. It was also my private [...]
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Blogs are mostly futile. Including this one.

I don’t understand why blogs are such a big deal. Yet, here is mine. No big deal. I’m not even going to tell anyone. Here it is. If you want to read it, somehow you will have to discover it. Perhaps you will click on an ad that brings you here.  Some odd search engine [...]
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