Author Archives: Mark A.

I realize I may very well be the only person on the planet who simultaneously subscribes to Entertainment Weekly while maintaining a membership with the Modern Language Association. I’ve come to terms with the fact that I’m a multi-faceted nerd. Anyway, since most folks I know don’t subscribe to that bastion of journalism Entertainment Weekly, […]

Waiting for class. The weather is agonizingly beautiful . And I’m about to be stuck indoors and subjected to insufferable drivel for 3 hours. What I wouldn’t give for a bell tower and an AK-47. FYI- This took an idiotic amount of time to type out on a cell phone.

Sorry I haven’t blogged since Saturday. I began Friday night believing I could finish Moby Dick in two days, which I found to be an impossible task. Impossible not because the book boasts over six hundred pages (my edition does anyway) but more because whale-talk puts me to sleep faster than folks who try to […]

You can go to this page for photos of Wilma whomping the hell out of Cancun/Cozumel (you have to scroll down quite a bit and you have to click on the links that have the .jpg extension to see the images). Fortunately, the Mexican government made sure everyone evacuated, but man does it look scary […]

Tonight Joe Cramer of MSNBC’s “Mad Money” appeared on “The Colbert Report.” He told Stephen that felt the US’s economy was the worst in the world, surpassing places like Columbia, and Mexico, and other countries I didn’t know the names of because I cheated my way through geography. I also read several days ago that […]

My blog is worth $0.00. How much is your blog worth? My blog is so blogtastic that stupid applet couldn’t compute its worth.

I would like to preface this post by drawing your attention to the time of this posting. You’ll find that in the lower left corner of this entry. See that? Me, Dracula, and Charlie Sheen are the only people awake right now. So”¦ By now my regular readers should know that when I get tired […]

Saddam’s trial began today. No doubt he’s guilty as hell and is an extremely scary guy… but one very small thing I saw in a photo from the trial made him even scarier. It seems as if ”˜Ole Grizzly Hussein needs a cheat sheet to help him remember his plea. Take a look at his […]

While talking to a friend today I was forced to admit that I haven’t done any real creative writing lately (well, the blog doesn’t count). The creative juices have slowly been seeping out and away from me since I began studying for my M.A. exam, and despite the fact that I’ve had a million and […]

A story on MSN.com claims Vanity Fair lightened Beyonce’s skin on a recent cover of the magazine. Of course Beyonce’s representatives deny this, but regardless if digital manipulation occurred on the particular case in question or not, retouching photos has become so common place that I don’t trust any image I see anymore. If you […]