Maszman Speaks!

TinyScope

Jim Glee­son has been declared the “win­ner” of San Jose State University’s 2007 Bulwer-Lytton Fic­tion Con­test. Bulwer-Lytton is remem­bered as the author of the “It was a dark and stormy night” as well as other pieces of truly tor­tured syn­tax. Gleeson’s entry:

Ger­ald began — but was inter­rupted by a pierc­ing whis­tle which cost him ten per cent of his hear­ing per­ma­nently, as it did every­one else in a ten-mile radius of the erup­tion, not that it mat­tered much because for them ‘per­ma­nently’ meant the next ten min­utes or so until buried by sear­ing lava or suf­fo­cated by chok­ing ash — to pee.

Mon­roe County Democ­rats have set them­selves up as the whiner party for another four years by not even try­ing to oppose Mag­gie Brooks. Much like the Democ­rats in Con­gress, they’d rather whine about not being heard than actu­ally do some­thing about it. “It’s expen­sive you know, it’s hard!”

Peo­ple are com­plain­ing of Face­book Fatigue? I don’t get it. I cre­ated a pro­file, added my two daugh­ters as con­tacts and uploaded a pic­ture. I’ve had one pro­fes­sional acquain­tance add me as a con­tact; no one else in any of my address books has an iden­ti­fi­able account on Face­book. I’m done. I guess this has to do with my per­son­al­ity type but really, how much work can it pos­si­bly be?

An Open Let­ter Regard­ing NYC’s Pro­posed Changes To Per­mit Require­ments for Photography

The won­der­ful comic Lit­tle Dee, by Chris Bald­win, is back home after hav­ing spent time at comics​.com. I guess they didn’t see its syn­di­ca­tion poten­tial and didn’t renew the trial they had with Chris.