December 4, 2008
I can generally count on having one Useless Day each week. This week it was yesterday, Tuesday.On Useless Day I can’t seem to get anything accomplished. I try to work, but nothing happens, or at any rate nothing good. My brain doesn’t seem to function very well. When I try to accomplish anything outside work, […]
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December 2, 2008
I recently finished watching the first season of Mad Men, courtesy of Netflix. The series poses an interesting fictional problem: is it possible to tell a gripping story when everyone in your narrative is a total rat-bastard?In this particular case, the answer would seem to be No. I don’t insist on sympathetic characters in my […]
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