Archive for August 2010
Foolish guarantee
I was watching a home improvement show yesterday. The designer and contractor were explaining to a homeowner that granite was an excellent choice for a kitchen countertop because “it will never go out of style.” This seems like quite a bold assertion, particularly considering that granite only gained widespread popularity in recent years. If its…
Read MoreBest letter
It must suck when your business relies on idiot record executives to keep people interested in music:
Read MoreMatty’s Top 10 wedding tips
Daily Candy wedding expert Shawn Rabideau offered his Top 10 Wedding Tips recently, and I thought that most of his ideas were fairly obvious. Proofread the invitations. Make sure you break in your shoes prior to the wedding. Spray-on tan sucks. Eat and drink on your wedding day. There were also a couple that I…
Read MoreTheKnot.com threatening to take over the world
TheKnot.com is a website that many people (mostly women) use in order to plan their weddings. I am familiar with this site because my DJ company has been recommended on it many times in the past. Yesterday I was directed to one of these recommendations, and while there, I noticed for the first time that…
Read MoreUNEXPECTEDLY, MILO update
My book tour continues this week with appearances at The Book Cellar in Brattleboro, Vermont on Thursday night at 7:00 and at Water Street Books in Essex, New Hampshire on Saturday night at 7:00. I’ve been guest blogging about book tours on Water Street’s blog, which you can read about here. My final post in…
Read MoreMy sources
A friend recently wrote to me: I enjoy these little articles that you link to a lot. I just have one question though: Do you really have that much free time to find all of these? Please tell me there is some kind of automated thing that sends them to you. It’s a good question,…
Read MoreMy theory on IQ
I have a theory. We all begin with an IQ that tops 200, but with each successive smack on the head, our IQ drops. I watch as my daughter hits her head on tables, walls and the floor, and I can’t help but think that each time his noggin takes a lump, she’s losing a…
Read MoreMust watch: Words
If you’re not listening to podcasts, you have no idea what you’re missing. If you’re listening to podcasts but you’re not listening to RadioLab, you have no idea what you’re missing. If you listened to the recent episode of RadioLab entitled Words but haven’t seen the accompanying video clip, you don’t know what you’re missing.…
Read MoreQuarterbacks are jerks
Imagine that you are an offensive lineman, 360-pounds, crouched down into a three-point stance, ready to explode on the snap count. Your knees are sore from years in the trenches and your elbow is aching from the hit you took from the defensive lineman ten minutes ago. Even if you were fully healthy, it ain’t…
Read MoreNew York Times Book Review!
Okay, it’s not exactly a full-blown review, and it’s inexplicably in the Crime column, but still, you can find UNEXPECTEDLY, MILO in this Sunday’s New York Times Book Review! I’m very excited.
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