Why Rock Music Has Sucked For 15 Years Date: 2009-02-06 Source: Master_Extraction (lowgenius.net) Original Text Original Text Yes, I know. It doesn’t all suck, but there’s not much room for nuance in a headline. And most of it HAS sucked, and sucked hard. There’s always been a problem of style over substance in music, and…

with my poems in… All of this reconnecting with my past is tough sometimes. It's not that I'm not happy – thrilled to death, really – to find so many of the people who used to be my life and watch them reassemble and become part of my present-day reality.  Maybe I'm pissed at myself…

What Is Punk? Date: 2009-01-28 Source: Master_Extraction (lowgenius.net) Original Text So an old friend – OLD friend, talking like third grade here – started up this group on Facebook, “I Was Punk Rock In Kalamazoo in the 80s.” Which is pretty cool, you know, because like it did with nearly every other genre, Kalamazoo had…

Prayer In Schools: A Reality Check Date: 2009-01-12 Source: Master_Extraction (lowgenius.net) Original Text (Fair warning: I Am Angry.) On a forum that I refuse to post to because it’s overflowing with ignorant, sanctimonious jackasses who deliberately reject logic and reason, I came across a thread in which a user posted one of those insipid little…

So after the nine thousandth call this week from some clueless recruiter or HR drone who doesn't know a subroutine from a submarine, I've dedcided to address the following to recruiters and human resources personnel in corporate America: Dear Monster/CareerBuilder/etc.-trolling supernumary: I am NOT looking for a job.  It says so, right on my resume,…

Dear America: Welcome to My World Date: 2009-01-10 Source: Master_Extraction (lowgenius.net) Original Text “Worst recession since the Great Depression.” “Half a million new jobless claims this week.” I wish I was small enough to gloat, but I’m not. All over the news, the dire trumpets of economic disaster are being sounded. With all due respect,…

Boy have I been busy.  Let me tell you about it~! I currently have three active client projects – one is almost finished, one is mid-way, and another is barely started. I’ve completely redesigned LowGenius.Com and added a HUGE bunch of tools and processes.  Unfortunately for readers of this blog, 99% of it is for…

Literacy And The Media Date: 2008-12-17 Source: Master_Extraction (lowgenius.net) Original Text A few more egregious examples of media illiteracy. Today’s mangled verbiage comes to us courtesy of political megablog The Huffington Post. An entry from an article by Joe Cutbirth: “Kennedy had a catharsis of sorts during the Obama campaign and learned she liked public…

An Open Letter To Parents Date: 2008-12-14 Source: Master_Extraction (lowgenius.net) Original Text As a former student at PNHS who went on to a nice decade and a half or so of fairly hard-core abuse before I realized what it was doing to me and left it behind, I’d like to point out a few realities…

So it's not a big secret among those who know me that I live with undiagnosed manic depression.  It's not something that's completely debilitating – although I do occasionally have times when getting out of bed is a struggle – but more like an inconvenience.  It gets in the way, sometimes. I tend to get…