I wish I’d quit buying from Amazon for ethical reasons, but really it was because the service turned to crap. However, it did become a whole lot easier to keep my promise over the past year when Amazon and its founder did one crappy thing after another. (Censorship! Excess! Digital repossession!) [Read More]
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I’ve learned the art of bookbinding!
As the years go by, I’ve found myself more and more in need of immersive hobbies to distract me from the growing horrors of reality, so I’m rather glad I spent last year learning the art of bookbinding. That’s right, y’all: I can do everything “book” now. I can write the book. I can design the book. And I can bind the book. [Read More]
Early voting diary: Part 2 – The Electoral College Strikes Back
As I stood in a long, twisty line to vote on Wednesday, I was reminded of another line I stood in way back in 2008, the one in a post titled "Early voting diary a.k.a. the road to hell is paved with campaign posters" which—wow—doubled as a rather clairvoyant description of the 2016 election. That... [Read More]
Dooce and Julie Powell were great writers, but also innovative businesswomen
Two of the OG blogging queens have died in the past year, Julie Powell and Heather Armstrong aka Dooce, which has left me a bit shook. I didn't regularly read either of their blogs when I was a fellow blogger in the aughts, but their entrepreneurial accomplishments impacted my life a great deal. They were... [Read More]
That billionaire brat made me feel bad that Twitter is imploding
A friend invited me to visit Twitter headquarters almost 11 years to the day before Elon Musk bought the place, and I gotta' say, people were having a lot more fun back then: It was Halloween, so people were dressed as lobsters and brought family and friends to the party dressed as Velma and a... [Read More]
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