May 26th, 2010

Nixtamalize me

I spent the past couple evenings watching some of the many, many episodes of Good Eats on my DVR. One episode in particular (“Tort(illa) Reform“) was especially thought provoking.  One of the things that endears me to the show is how Alton Brown presents not only recipes but the science and often the [...]

May 20th, 2010

I am just an advertisement for a version of myself

[Credit to David Byrne for the post title]

Way back in November of 2007 I posted about the sordid saga of Ethan Reynolds, formerly of the model blog / community Brat Boy School (since shut down; internet wayback machine link here – caution, it loads slowly).  I’m seeing echoes of that experience in the [...]

May 18th, 2010

Everyone gets rejected, and no one makes money.

The publishing blogs have been all atwitter this week about famous writers who have faced rejection.  There’s Michele Kerns’ list of 30 famous writers who have faced rejection (via Editorial Ass, and Rejectionist, and Dystel & Goderich, and did I miss anyone?) and today Nathan Bransford points out this unattributed list of “50 Iconic Writers [...]