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 by Jason Edwards
Living in Brooklyn, wearing ‘Roos, and drinking PBR is not ironic. A t-shirt emblazoned with an 80’s iron-on if that weird robotic orange dog from Battlestar Galactica, whether you got it at the thrift store at Urban Outfitters, is not ironic. It’s not kitsch or camp or cool. If YOU think it’s cool, fine, but I am telling you, it’s not cool.
It’s not BAD, either. I’m not saying it’s stupid or wrong, or misguided or to be disparaged or down-the-nose looked-at. It’s not anything is what I am saying. It doesn’t get a label. Continue reading The Hipsters Scene (a rant)
 Somehow or another, my husband and I have produced this high-maintenance, picky, precocious, drama queen of a child. She is 7 years old. Though she’s a good reader, she far more enjoys writing her own books than reading other peoples’ material, thank-you-very-much.
She and her father also enjoy playing this online game called Wizard 101, which is like World of Warcrack for elementary school children. Apparently while playing last night, she wanted to engage the ‘text chat’ feature of the game and talk with her fellow gamers. Her father put the kibosh on it.
Continue reading The Dad Who Did Not Let Me Do Text Chat
by Jason Edwards
Finished The Predictioneers Game by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita last week, and Pirate Latitudes by the late Michael Crichton this week, and started in on It’s Not News, It’s Fark by Drew Curtis last night. So I’m ahead of schedule. Ahead of what schedule, you say, having only read this article and no other on Wiffli, where we write when/if we want to about whatever we want, even if it bores the crap out of all two of our readers? My schedule to read one book per week all year long, that’s what. Week 5, here we go. Continue reading Can’t Stop Reading
by Jason Edwards
So far I’ve read about 7 books on my iPod Touch, via an app from Barnes & Noble. And I have to tell you, that’s 7 more than I would have read, all things considered. This despite the books being, mostly, titles I wanted to read. The thing is, I’ve adapted into a lifestyle where sitting down with a book and flipping pages just doesn’t happen. If I have that kind of free time, I’m inclined, usually, to play video games. Maybe that’s shameful, but that’s the way it is. So having the convenience of a book literally in my pocket has proven to be a boon. Continue reading E-Readers Are Better than “Real” Books- There, I said it.
by Jason Edwards
3 weeks, 3 books so far, and hey hey hey, I’m almost done with week 4 and book 4. But Week 3: Unseen Academicals, latest in the long-running Discworld series. It’s a fantasy novel, it’s a series novel, and for those reasons alone you probably won’t read it. Or, for those reasons you will read it—my point is, this “review” will have nothing to do whatsoever with whether you read the book or not. You’re either already a Pratchett fan, or not. I could try to give you a general overview of why Terry Pratchett is one of the greatest writers of all time, but I don’t have the space here or the patience. Continue reading Another Book I Read: Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett
I finally figured out where they got the name “House” for doctor Gregory. M.D. It’s because “house” sounds like “homes” which sounds like “Holmes” and House is supposed to be all Sherlock-like. The way he sees a spot on Cutty’s shirt and deduces that she’s pregnant with twins and the father’s an Albanian Minister of Finance with a penchant for cheap cigars and expensive wines. And medical dramas are staggeringly popular, almost as much as cop shows, but a Sherlock cop was done with Monk already, so they went with the doctor thing. Continue reading I Watched a Movie (Sherlock Holmes)
by Jason Edwards
Last Friday I finished Youth in Revolt by C.D. Payne. Now this is an exciting book because it’s the first in a series, the series has a movie based on it, the movies stars Michael Cera, and the books were self-published. The books are Nick Twisp’s journals, his adventures as a regular 14 year-old-boy living in California. Go grab your e-reader and download a sample. Continue reading I Read Another Book (Youth in Revolt by C.D. Payne)
by Jason Edwards
I’ve taken it upon myself to read one book per week this year. So far I’m one-for-one, and looking good for the second one as well! It would be great if I could put my “reviews” of these books here also. So here’s the first attempt. The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson. Continue reading I Read a Book
by Jason Edwards
Can I bear witness to you? I think I first noticed the Twilight books while stalking the aisles at my nearby Barnes & Noble, right about when the third or fourth book in the series was coming out. Actually, I’m not sure how many books are in the series. There’s five books in the Douglas Adams Hitchhiker trilogy, so obviously numbers aren’t the issue. The point is, the books had been out a while before I knew about them. Continue reading I Hate to Love Hating Twilight
by Jason Edwards
Consider this a Public Service Announcement. I would like to humbly suggest that you use chopsticks to eat your Doritos.
This should address the problem of getting that orange stuff all over your fingers. Granted, sometimes you don’t mind so much. Sometimes, you are only eating a few Doritos, and for the tiny bit of residue, God in His Wisdom has Blessed us with Blue Jeans (sign of a true Doritos fanatic—subtle fading on his right pant leg, just beneath the hip). Continue reading Use Chopsticks to Eat Doritos
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