Feb 20, 2019Member-onlyTwitter Should Have Groups and Here Is How They Should WorkHow a Simple Product Enhancement Could Alleviate Twitter’s Community Woes — This post has been in gestation for years. Whenever there’s a new flare-up concerning Twitter, which is comically often, I dip into my Drafts folder and dust off this post, but due to the exasperating complexity of the topic, never muster the polish to hit Publish. It happened last summer…Twitter9 min readTwitter9 min read
May 2, 2018Member-onlyThe Spectre of Future HistoryThis week in THE LEDGER: after a meandering setup about content for old people, a look at Buzzfeed’s crazy new web show, Future History — Have you ever had that feeling when some goddamn tweet pricks the edge of your consciousness, and the pang just hangs there, like a subcutaneous stinger, pestering you for days? …Media5 min readMedia5 min read
Apr 20, 2018Member-onlyThe Ledger: Civilization(s)A Media Diary for the Week of April 16, 2018 — If my life has a recurring theme, it might just be the aborted attempts at creating a public diary of media. Carve it into thy tombstone: Here lies a failed blogger. But if at first we don’t succeed, fail fail again. So one more time, with feeling: The Ledger, a…Blogging3 min readBlogging3 min read
Dec 9, 2016So Far: Trump NominationsIt’s hard to keep up, so I’ll be updating this cheat sheet: Secretary of the Treasury: Swamp guy; Goldman Sachs. National Economic Director: Swamp guy; Goldman Sachs. Chief Strategist: Swamp guy; Goldman Sachs. Attorney General: Swamp guy; Senate. Secretary of Transp.: Swamp lady; married to Senate Majority Leader. Director of…Donald Trump1 min readDonald Trump1 min read
Mar 28, 2016Alaskan Canneries & Alt-Weeklies RevisitedDuring summers in college, I used to fly up to Alaska to work in fish canneries, where in a month I could make almost enough money to live for another year. …Alaska17 min readAlaska17 min read
Feb 17, 2016Member-onlyO.J. Simpson Trial Jury QuestionnaireBelow is the mammoth 75-page questionnaire that potential jurors in “The People v. O.J. Simpson” had to answer. It must be one of the longest personality quizzes in history. I. FAMILY HISTORY-BACKGROUND. 1. Age? 2. Are you male or female? 3. What is your race? (please circle) a.) White-caucasion? b.) Black-African-American? c.) Hispanic-Latino? d.)…Criminal Justice36 min readCriminal Justice36 min read
Jan 13, 2016Every Morning I Awake from Deep Slumber, Thankful that Quora Exists, to Answer All of the Unanswerable Inquiries that Have Ached Humanity for Millennia, from Plebeian to Philosopher, Right There in My InboxThese were all culled from my inbox over the past month. You all should be thankful to be alive in these times.Quora1 min readQuora1 min read
Published in THE LEDGER·Jan 10, 2016The Ledger: An Indexed Media DiaryThis week’s comprehensive media diary, with the usual recommended items in bold: SATURDAY, JANUARY 9 PODCAST: Slate Money, “New Year’s Resolution Edition” POST: “El Chapo Sat for Interview With Sean Penn” | NYT TV: Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Cincinnati Bengals | CBS TV: Shark Tank (s7 e12) | ABC TV: Shark Tank (s7 e13)…Media2 min readMedia2 min read
Published in THE LEDGER·Jan 3, 2016The Ledger: An Indexed Media DiaryThis week’s comprehensive media diet diary of everything I watched/read/heard: SATURDAY, JANUARY 2 PODCAST: Slate Money, “Hogmanay Edition” FRIDAY, JANUARY 1 MOVIE: Call Me Lucky TV: The People v. O. J. Simpson, “From the Ashes of Tragedy” (s1 e1) | FX TV: The People v. O. J. …Media2 min readMedia2 min read
Dec 31, 2015The Definitive Ranking of Every Narrative Film from This Year that I SawThis time of the year, people make lists: Top 10s, Best 20s, Superlative 50s. These lists are seldom definitive: Who really saw everything in the list category? And why include only the top items in your list? They fake their authority. I can truthfully say this list is definitive —…Movies8 min readMovies8 min read
