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With my previous hipster essay continuing to be one of the most popular things I’ve ever written (second only to this), I thought I’d take another stab at the topic to better explain how I really feel about a counterculture movement defined by indie music, thrift store fashion and vintage video games. With a little luck, I’ll cut through the ambiguity of my last attempt. With a little more luck, I’ll make even...
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This entry originally appeared in The Beaumont Enterprise. Next Tuesday may be election day and all, but if you get tired of participating in the democratic process and want a little time to relax, you might want to head over to the Carrol A. “Butch” Thomas Educational Support Center for BISD’s first annual “Band Extravaganza.” Bands from middle school through high school will perform at the event, along with...
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Hello again, Internet. I see you have gotten along rather well in my absence, but all good things must come to an end. Deal with it. I could recount all of my grand adventures since my last post, but I want this to be a shorter entry than normal. In fact, I want all my future entries to be shorter from here on. Why? Because I can. Also, because you asked for it. Or, at least, the Internet at large did. So consider this my gift to you...
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Today I conclude the third chapter of Snowflakes In Autumn. Tomorrow, I’ll post the essay I’d originally scheduled for Wednesday but had to postpone due to wanting every minute I could get with Trey before he left for his dad’s summer visitation. It was important to squeeze in every second we could with our little guy before he left home, for unfortunate reasons I’ll elaborate on in Friday’s essay. As for...
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Time for part four of Chapter One, which concludes tomorrow. I’ve heard from a few of you through e-mail and the Facebooks, and it looks like I’m going to continue on to Chapter Two next week. I’m not sure if I’ll split it into three parts rather than five so that I can return to regular essays on Tuesday and Thursday, but I’m working it out. I might opt for four parts with an essay on Wednesday. Who knows?...
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Kristian Bland
Writer
Occasional Geek
I'm a former Webmaster turned Journalist turned Systems Administrator. I once thought I could recreate Spider-Man's web fluid, but only ended up staining the driveway of my friend's parents when some of it spilled out and went runny. Eventually, I became a caustic tech geek, which I'm pretty sure inspired the character of Dr. Gregory House, although the bastards never credited me. Later in life, I'd go on to have a horrific experience in publishing that I don't talk about, except to talk about how I don't talk about it. Later still, I became a web editor and columnist for a Hearst newspaper, where I excelled at being Me until my entire department was unceremoniously laid off. After that, I spent about six months being pretty busy not being busy. It sucked. Then, after missing the light of my radiant glory casting its warmth upon the newsroom for long enough, the paper called me up and asked me back. So I went back. And then I left again. And here we are.
