Oct 27 2008
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If only I had realized that before picking it as the topic for a research paper.
Oct 18 2008
I went to a pub tonight and ordered a glass of wine instead of a Sprite or Guinness. According to the menu, my wine was supposed to taste of “notes of white and black pepper with a forward fruit.” Hmm, not quite. It tasted more like someone stabbed my tongue with a cattle prod. I ended up getting a Sprite and a Coors to wash the taste away. Blerk. I’m going Guinness next time.
Oct 15 2008
Today we reached 100,000 pageviews. With ten weeks left in the year, we should be able to clear 150,000 by New Year’s. Thanks for coming!
Oct 08 2008
We did some calculations on the back of a napkin and concluded that the author of Things White People Like received an advance of 2.33 cents per hit. Assuming that our advance earned us the same amount of money per hit, our projected pay per hour of website work has doubled to $1.75 over the past three months. At this rate, we might reach minimum wage by the time I have my degree. [JACOB ADDS: Barely. Won't your parents be so proud?]
Oct 07 2008
In the next 2-3 weeks, we’ll clear 100,000 pageviews for the year and should clear 125,000 before the year is over. When we set our New Year’s Resolution, we were hoping for 50,000. Thanks for your traffic.
Oct 04 2008
Hello, commenters! We’ve added a new widget to help you figure out if we’ve responded to your comments yet. It’s near the top of the sidebar, right below our list of superhero writing articles.
Oct 04 2008
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Oct 01 2008
I took the online Jeopardy test tonight. I think I did well enough to get a call back for auditions.
Oct 01 2008
I hate ancient philosophy. I find it interesting that the only endeavor in which the ancients are generally taught to undergraduates is philosophy. In 2000 years, I hope that students (to the extent that we have students in 2000 years) learn more about us than the inconsequential quibblings of our philosophers.
Sep 25 2008
We’ve started using Share This on about 20 of our most popular articles. Hopefully it should be easier to share our sage insights with the unenlightened masses now.
Sep 25 2008
A few weeks ago, we applied for a university grant to underwrite a non-fiction book about how to write superhero stories. (Ahem, we’ve written more than 50,000 words about the subject here). Today I learned that our application was very well-received…
Sep 14 2008
Yeah, I’m really sorry about this, but I don’t think we have the time to pursue the webcomic with any degree of regularity over the academic year. We will continue regular updates in May.
Aug 27 2008
Our new blogroll focuses on the sites we find particularly funny, but we have a few sites devoted to writing and the publishing industry. If you’d like to suggest a site, we’d love to hear from you.
Aug 26 2008
Our website is a year old now. Without navel-gazing too much, I’d like to offer some quick visuals to suggest just how dramatically our crappiness quotient has dropped. These are our first six months worth of headers…