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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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Pushing into the late evening of this Tuesday night past, the Internet suddenly got a little more stupid. Discouraged by some comments left on a website about his 2010 book purge, Harlan Ellison finally thumbed his nose at the ‘Net and switched off the pops and hisses of his antediluvian dial-up modem for the last time. He’s done with it, with you and with us. He bought the ticket, took the ride and hopped out of the spinning...
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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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Today’s entry wraps up Chapter One of Snowflakes In Autumn. I apologize for the brevity of yesterday’s entry (and today’s, for that matter), but that’s how the edits worked out when I decided to spread the chapter out over five daily entries. Next week should work out a little more evenly, as I plan to interrupt the novel with a regular essay on Wednesday, allowing me to chop things up into four entries instead of...
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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.
