In order to move one step forward you have to first go five steps backward. It's true. At the age of (insert number of choice here), I finally got my first contracted cell/smart phone. Of course, I used various cell phones when I worked for the man (corpos), and even used a cheap pre-paid cell … Continue reading Tech Fail Upward
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Marry Me Goat
The Goat or Who Is Sylvia by Edward Albee Wiki about this play. Reading through ballot Question 6 for MD election 2012. The language of it is strange and obviously appeases religious zealots who shouldn't be in govt. in the first place. Personally, they should just get rid of the institution of marriage right after … Continue reading Marry Me Goat
Happening Here
Subtitle: Well, like, it's Almost Happening Here And Other Thoughts on Sinclair Lewis's Novel. What goes around comes around. Or? That's sometimes how I feel when it comes to reading. Especially since I'm trying and failing to get back to reading all those old authors that I blew off when I was young because, at … Continue reading Happening Here
Barrel of Fun
Disclaimer: Thoughts on Mitt Romney. You've been warned. Go ahead. Look at the barrel. Well. Go ahead. It's a barrel. Right? And get this. The barrel is empty. The barrel is rotten. But it wasn’t always so. Look at it again. There was a time when the barrel was full of beautiful, luscious, sweet and tart … Continue reading Barrel of Fun
Lions And Chick-Lit
The Lion Is In by Delia Ephron This is (probably) my third foray into chick-lit. If it wasn't for the wonders of my second foray into this genre, I never would have trusted Adam Curry after he interviewed Delia Ephron here. The thing is, I dated someone that read a lot of chick lit -- … Continue reading Lions And Chick-Lit
American Gomorrah
Republican Gomorrah by Max Blumenthal Truth is a bitch. I know for a fact that truth is a bitch. I've faced truth numerous times in my useless-eating life. Truth has beat me to a pulp every fricking time I've faced it. There are also times where I haven't faced truth and I know each one … Continue reading American Gomorrah
High Finance
Almost a review of three books. Well, not quite almost. Nomatter. Informed about the world of high finance and rob-your-soul banking? Me neither. Every class I ever took that had anything to do with business, economics or numbers, I bagged as soon as I could and went about living life as it should be lived. … Continue reading High Finance
Illusion of Comic Truth
July 27, 2012 The Illusion (Of Comic) Truth It took me a while to get used to it but I eventually came to terms with the fact that it takes a bit longer for movies to get their start in Germany. This delay has to do with the greed of movie distributors and the dumbfounding … Continue reading Illusion of Comic Truth
Lead Shot Frogs
Thoughts: Mark Twain's Short Story Collection What differentiates an artist from mere mortals? There is one thing that working stiffs of this world must never forget above and beyond that fact that they will never get their shit together so as to unite under the auspices of solidarity that they may defeat austerity and hence … Continue reading Lead Shot Frogs
Crémant vs Art Films
Pseudo review of the movie Synecdoch, New York by Charlie Kaufman Oh, it weighed heavy on my conscience having recently gone to the cinema. It's just not something I do. It's like youth, and it's a good thing that it's gotten away from me. But I did it and there is a price to pay. … Continue reading Crémant vs Art Films
Hyper Stuff
Travels In Hyperreality by Umberto Eco "Travels in Hyperreality" is a collection of essays by Umberto Eco. I don't know exactly when I first read this book and that's starting to bother me - even though it doesn't matter. Over the years I keep pulling this book from different book shelves where I instinctively know … Continue reading Hyper Stuff
Cyberwar Rock-N-Roll
Here's the scenario. It's 1999. I'm working as a PM consultant and our client is (really big tech company). The job is to install a test environment of our software. Our software has been purchased by (really big tech company) because we have something they need in order to complete their massive drive to get … Continue reading Cyberwar Rock-N-Roll
Mirror Mirror On The Wall
Warning: Plot spoilers. Broke down and went to the movies yesterday. I don't go to the cinema anymore. Reason? Nothing motivates me to go. And, at my age, it's getting' hard to sit still in the dark for 2hrs. Also. Movie making in general has long since run out of stories to tell. For you … Continue reading Mirror Mirror On The Wall
Boomerang Them Germans
Boomerang by Michael Lewis What is a boomerang and how does it apply to the problems of a world faced with replacing productivity and creativity with speculative finance? Without looking it up on Wiki, I recall a boomerang being a hunting tool. Aborigines used it to stun or deliver a debilitating injury to their prey … Continue reading Boomerang Them Germans
In Search Of A Quote
Disclaimer: this text is probably NSFW. Among the many imaginary friends I wish I had, one woke me up this morn when I was trying to locate something I hadn't searched for in a while. "What are you looking at," he asked. "The exact location of a famous quote," I said. "Why," he (or was … Continue reading In Search Of A Quote
Sharks Barracudas Banks
The other day during a somewhat intensified news scan to try and understand the 2012 JPMorgan bank scandal, I got to thinking about sharks and barracudas. This was aided when I happened across an article about a German women that was attacked by a sharkwhile on vacation in Florida. Although it seems she will survive the … Continue reading Sharks Barracudas Banks
Hitch And Paine
Thoughts on Christopher Hitchens and Thomas Paine Three Brits did a job on my head. One was a great thinker, one was a great writer and the other didn't bother to tell me, after we had done the dirty deed a whole bunch, that she was married. But I'll get to all that in a … Continue reading Hitch And Paine
Sucks
Some might consider it privilege, others elitism. But it's also torture. Since 2010 worstWriter lives in a Apple household. And I want to say upfront: this was not my choice. My better-half has completely fallen over the iPad edge and is now a total "post-pc" user. That is, she doesn't use a personal computer anymore. … Continue reading Sucks
Price of Nothingness
Funny how so much gets lost in translation. Like reality. Every time I think that something can no longer happen to make me shake my head at Eurowasteland, something happens. Recent electoral event in France should be making the whole world shake it's head, especially the Eurowastelanders. Of course, I'm not talking about head-shaking at … Continue reading Price of Nothingness
Losing Touch Inner National Socialist
Potential Subtitle: Will MILFs save Eurowasteland? Disclaimer: I never quite finished this post. Part 2 was an attempt to finish it. Part 1 is where it all started. Sometimes, as hard as I fight to maintain them, idears just don't cut it and I have to let them go. This post is the result of … Continue reading Losing Touch Inner National Socialist
Grifter Nation
Griftopia by Matt Taibbi In The Beginning There are two scams in the 1990 movie The Grifters that reveal everything there is to know about how things work--and not just in America but in the whole western world. The first scam I want to worst-write about this day, dear worst-reader, is actually shown twice in … Continue reading Grifter Nation
Biggest Brother Ever
http://youtu.be/wxu7VZRAYOY Let's begin from the begin(ning), shall we? It started with Big Brother. Then there was Bigger Brother. And now… Excuse me, phone is ringing. Did all of this spying on citizens (video below) start with a novel? You know the old saying: life emulates art. (Or is it the other way 'round? Nomatter.) There are … Continue reading Biggest Brother Ever
Blue Dog Go Home
Major primary losses for conservatives in PA. Oh thank goodness. But wait. These conservatives are Dems. Oh my. Nomatter. Down with conservatives. Is there good news for anti-conservatives in the future? Not sure. It's been a long time coming but perhaps, even in the state of PA, the wake up call post tea-partier fiasco of 2010 has … Continue reading Blue Dog Go Home
Afraid Of Snail Shells
Prelude: Living in fear is not a natural human condition. That is a comforting thought, eh. The reason it's not natural is because its opposite is universal and interchangeable. But what is the opposite of fear? We have a great capacity to help one another. That too must be a comforting thought. Yet. We do … Continue reading Afraid Of Snail Shells
Flatroof Expatriates
Ich Will Kein Flachdach Sein by Yassin Nasri As much as I’d like to, there is no way to dramatize my expatriation. Should I try anyway? Ok. The short theatrics to my experience has been simple. Move abroad. Experience lots of bullshit. The end. That’s it. For the past twenty years that’s how I’ve seen … Continue reading Flatroof Expatriates
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