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This is my interstellar craft of truth and wit. Buckle up. If you want celebrity gossip, this is not the blog for you. If you want comfortable postings that’ll fill you with happy fuzzy thoughts about the world at large, or self-help guru shit, this is not the blog for you.
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Monthly Archives: April 2011
The older I get, the more I see the adage of “darkest before dawn” being a truism. A certain Zen-master sensibility takes over as I age whenever the fit really hits the shan. “Oh, wow. A gnarly wave of suckage cresting on the right. Head down, hang on, and pray, woman.” When I had that almost-a-major-setback with [...]
Posted in Autobiographical, Being me, fitness, keeping it real Tagged failure, fitness, injury, rehab, rehabbing injuries, strategy, success Leave a comment
Apr
21
2011
The Death of Culture
Yesterday, I watched Oprah speaking with The Director Who Walked Away From Hollywood, Tom Shadyac, about the new doc he has coming out, I AM, in which he sort of explores the wrongness of “the cult of celebrity,” and how humans are the only thing in nature that takes more than what it needs, because [...]
Posted in Hollywood, Society, Steff Rants Tagged cult of celebrity, florence, italy, jersey shore, mtv, season four, snooki, the situation 1 Comment
I’m doing a lot of writing for work right now. Writing for work, to find work. Other work. Writing for the soul? Not so much. It’s too bad, too, because Spring is when one ought to be writing for the soul. Given it SNOWED last Thursday, perhaps Nature has had a hand in the Soul-Squelch Factor. Cherry [...]
Posted in Being me, writing Tagged death, jobs, Journalling, life, people, priorities, temporary, work, writing Leave a comment
Apr
14
2011
Confessions of (Not) a Bandwagoner
Here we go: playoffs, baby. I actually love playoff hockey. There’s nothing more fast-paced and exciting than when your team starts doing well in the post-season. The spring of ’94 was one of the most exciting times of my life, when this town went on the playoff run with the Rangers. Man, was that some [...]
Posted in Autobiographical, Current Events, Specifically Steff, Sports Tagged hockey, nhl, nhl playoffs, series, stanley cup, Vancouver, vancouver versus chicago Leave a comment
Apr
13
2011
A Last Look at a Horrible Crime
In 2008, my brother’s closest friend from high school and his early 20s was killed in a bizarre Craigslist murder that has captured the media’s attention. Yesterday, the jury came back with a verdict of guilty. Mark Twitchell will, it seems, spend 25 to life behind bars. (Thanks, Jury.) My brother has obsessed over the [...]
Posted in Crime, Current Events, Dimestore Philosophy, Society, Specifically Steff Tagged criagslist murder, edmonton, johnny altinger, mark twitchell, murder Leave a comment
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